Theater Guild on the Air was sponsored by U.S. Steel and was sometimes known as the U.S. Steel Hour. It was broadcast on Sunday evenings from 8:30-9:30 p.m. on the east coast. This particular program aired on February 17, 1952. It was advertised in a wide variety of ways. The following display ads are from,…
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Jimmy Stewart for American Brotherhood Week
Stewart became involved with American Brotherhood Week, sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1946. During that year, he and other Hollywood stars made short three minute films promoting Brotherhood week. These were shown in theaters before the movie began. There were also at least two industry magazine campaigns that year in…
ABC Network Promos
The following article is from the February 15, 1947, issue of Variety: As you can read, ABC is using film stars to help promote its own radio shows. In return for the stars helping them, each of the promos will also mention the current film of the actor. The names of only three stars are…
The Six Shooter – Quiet City
Broadcast on February 14, 1954, this program is also known as A Town Grows Up, Sheriff’s Son and Sheriff’s Son to Study Law. Except for simple listings, no newspaper clippings for this show could be located. Stewart is joined in the cast by Virginia Gregg as Mabel Norton, Robert Griffin as Doc Anderson, Lamont Johnson…
Family Theatre – Flight from Home
The Family Theatre premiered on the Mutual Network on February 13, 1947, with the play Flight From Home starring Loretta Young. Jimmy Stewart was on hand as the master of ceremonies. As outlined in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, he is heard only at the beginning and ending of the program and did not act…
Lux Radio Theatre – The Stratton Story
The film, The Stratton Story starring Stewart and June Allyson, had gone into general circulation in June of 1949. On February 13, 1950, the only radio adaptation of the film was presented on the CBS radio series, Lux Radio Theatre. The script was adapted for radio by Sanford H. Barnett. William Keighley was the show’s…
The FBI Story – Soundtrack Recordings
No soundtrack album has been released of the Max Steiner score for the film. The film’s theme, Theme From The FBI Story (What Do I Care) was recorded by at least two different artists at the time of the film’s release. The first of these was a mainly instrumental version by Richard Maltby (Columbia 4-41452)…
THANK YOU!!!
When we posted our first blog on June 5, 2015, we had no idea what to expect. We knew that there were people out there, like you, who loved Jimmy Stewart. But would you have any interest in his radio career? Would you continue to come back day after day to check for new blogs…
Screen Guild Theater – Single Crossing
Jimmy Stewart was not scheduled to appear on The Gulf Screen Guild Theater broadcast of February 11, 1940. Instead William Powell was to be the male lead opposite Myrna Loy in Single Crossing. But, when Powell came down with a case of the flu, Jimmy Stewart volunteered to step in for him. Apparently Clark Gable…
Boy Scout Jamboree – February 11, 1950
Jimmy Stewart was one of several guests appearing on the Boy Scout Jamboree broadcast of 1950. On the East coast, the program was aired from 1:30-2 p.m. The program is not available and all we know about it has been gleaned from newspaper clippings. The first of these is from The Brooklyn Eagle, Brooklyn, NY:…
