For the third and final time, Stewart recreated his role of George Bailey in a Screen Guild production of It’s a Wonderful Life. The first two times had come on December 29, 1947 and December 29, 1949. The following display ad for the program is from the Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI, on the day…
Monthly Archives: March 2016
The Six Shooter – Thicker than Water
Thicker than Water was broadcast on March 14, 1954. The title is also sometimes given as Gus Proctor, Gus and Ted Proctor or Gambler’s Son. This short preview of the show appeared in the March 14th edition of the Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star, Lincoln, NE. Also appearing on the show were Shirley Mitchell as…
Flight 101
When you listen to Fight 101, it will sound like a normal radio show, complete with music and sound effects. You’ll hear the crackle and pops as the record player’s needle moves through the grooves of the record. But, this was not recorded to be used on the radio. Instead, Jimmy Stewart recorded this program…
Academy Awards Show – March 13, 1947
The 19th Academy Awards were presented at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, Ca, on March 13, 1947. Jimmy Stewart was nominated in the “Best Actor” category for his performance in It’s a Wonderful Life, losing to Fredric March. We cannot say with 100% accuracy that Stewart appeared on the radio broadcast. Most newspapers carried this…
Screen Guild Show – Tailored by Toni
Tailored by Toni, a story by Connie Lee, was presented on The Gulf Screen Guild Show on March 12, 1939. It starred Jimmy Stewart as Peter Graham, Carole Lombard as Toni Warren, Spring Byington as Toni’s mother and Edward Everett Horton as Kenneth Pickles. George Murphy was the show’s master of ceremonies. This preview of…
The Bing Crosby Show – Jimmy Buys a Washing Machine
Stewart made his tenth and final appearance on the Crosby show on March 12, 1953. A publicity photo for the show was taken showing Crosby and Stewart with their scripts: At least one newspaper, the Portsmouth Times, Portsmouth, OH, used this photo in an ad for the program. Other newspapers ran previews of the show…
Hollywood’s Best: The Thirties
This is a single CD issued by TCM Turner Classic Movies Music/Rhino Movie Music (R2 72907) in 1997. Stewart is involved only on track 12, Easy to Love (Alternate Version). In the film, Born to Dance, he appears to be singing the song with Eleanor Powell when, in fact, her vocals were dubbed by Marjorie…
Jimmy and Bing – Show #1
Jimmy Stewart appeared on the Bing Crosby radio show many time between 1948 and 1953. and each time was a special treat as the pair worked together very well. Stewart’s ten appearances are well documented in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, but some materials not in the book are included here. His first appearance came…
Lux Radio Theatre – It’s a Wonderful Life (CD/Cassette)
In 2000, Radio Spirits issued the Lux Radio Theatre version of It’s a Wonderful Life starring Stewart and Donna Reed in both cassette and CD formats. The CD release number was 7012: The CD version seems to be a little easier to find than the cassette. Although marketed these days as a Christmas story, it…
Anatomy of a Murder – Soundtrack Part 2 – Spin Offs and Re-Issues
Peggy Lee was given the Main Title track and asked to write lyrics for it. The result was a song titled I’m Gonna Go Fishin’. Two versions of this were issued in 1960. One was an instrumental by Gerry Mulligan (Verve 10216), while the other was a vocal by Peggy Lee (Capitol 4449). While Mulligan’s…
