The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater presented Harry Kronman’s radio adaptation of the Philip Barry play, The Philadelphia Story, on March 17, 1947. The show would feature the three actors who had starred in the film, Jimmy Stewart as Mike Connor, Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord and Cary Grant as C.K. Dexter Haven. Also appearing…
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Boy Scout Recording Session – 1957
Mr. Stewart often did his recording of material for the Boy Scouts of America at the C.P. MacGregor Studios in Los Angeles, CA. We have in our collection several of these 7-inch master tapes. The material from his March 22, 1957, session will be presented in this blog. We are going to include the entire…
A Letter at Midnight – Plays for Americans
World War II was raging in Europe and the Pacific and radio networks were searching for ways to get all Americans firmly behind the war effort. NBC did this with Plays for Americans, a special series of shows written and produced by Arch Oboler. As mentioned in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, only three shows…
Screen Guild Theater (March 15, 1951)
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…
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…
