In 2002, EMI Gold released the CD EMI Comedy – Hollywood Stars (724353951221). Eight different radio shows featuring Hollywood stars, including Vincent Price, Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, Edward G. Robinson, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Shelley Winters and Jimmy Stewart. The Stewart track is from his January 9, 1949, appearance on The…
Yearly Archives: 2018
New Jimmy Stewart Interview
The Jimmy Stewart Museum has recently come into possession of a new and very unique interview tape. It was recorded on July 11, 1979, shortly after the death of one of Mr. Stewart’s friends, John Wayne. The interview was conducted at the Stewart’s home in Beverly Hills by “Pete” Martin, a long-time writer for The…
Bob Hope Show (September 21, 1956)
The final new Bob Hope Show had been broadcast in April of 1955. NBC kept the show on its schedule for the new season beginning in September, 1956. However, these shows were repeats. The same regulars, Margaret Whiting and Les Brown and his Band of Renown, were used for these programs. Guests stars, some from…
Launch of Pennsylvania Week
This is a newly discovered radio appearance for Mr. Stewart. The following article from The Pittsburgh Press (October 12, 1947) says that Governor James Henderson Duff and Stewart would appear the following day, October 13th, to launch “Pennsylvania Week.” No audio for the broadcast appears to have survived. In 1952, Stewart recorded a one-minute spot…
We the People (December 22, 1946)
We have already documented Mr. Stewart’s appearance on the June 24, 1947, edition of We the People. Now, we have discovered that he also appeared on the show about six months previous to this date, on December 22, 1946. Here are several listings which confirm this fact. The first is from The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati,…
Stewart Talks with Junior Junction
Junior Junction was a half-hour Saturday morning program broadcast by ABC from 1946 until 1952. It was aimed at the teenage audience. We just recently uncovered the following photo and listing for the show in the February 9, 1952, issue of The Cincinnati Enquirer, Cincinnati, OH. Here is a typical listing for the show from…
Tales of Mystery and Suspense – Suspense 3
In a previous blog, April 17, 2016, we looked at a similar release which was called Volume 3 rather than Suspense 3. That release was a single cassette; this one is a 4-cassette set. You’ll see some obvious differences in the packaging – the way the titles are laid out and the fact that the…
The Screen Directors’ Playhouse – Hollywood After the War
Newly added to our collection is this 2-cassette set from England (Hodder Headline Audiobooks HH 328). This was number 3 in a series of releases. Packaged in a 4 x 5 ½ inch case, it features four Screen Directors’ Playhouse programs from the 1940’s. The Stewart show, It’s a Wonderful Life, was originally broadcast on…
It’s a Wonderful Life (Mr. Punch)
We just located another British cassette version of the Lux Radio Theatre production of It’s a Wonderful Life. It was issued by Mr. Punch (98034). Like most UK cassettes, it was released in a 4 x 5 ½ inch case. Starring with Stewart were Donna Reed as Mary, Victor Moore as Clarence the Angel, John…
This Is the Story No. 24
This is a new radio show that we only became aware of a few weeks ago. At the same time, in another form, it is a show of which we have been aware since our research began. This Is the Story is an Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) program which was a part of their…
