On July 5, 1948, six and a half years after its original broadcast (December 15, 1941), radio station WNYC in New York City rebroadcast We Hold These Truths. No reason for the rebroadcast was given, but since the show was in the highlighted section of the radio listings for the day, it must have been…
Category Archives: Additional Radio Show Information
Jimmy Stewart for 4-H Clubs
When we began documenting and collecting Jimmy Stewart radio shows, we knew that there was going to be information missed and shows that were not going to be available. We learned to live with that and occasionally found some of these missing gems to add to the collection. What is harder to take are those…
Jimmy Stewart…”Can’t use more money”
The following note appeared in John M. Cooper’s “Radio Ringside” column in the Cumberland Evening Times, Cumberland, MD, on March 24, 1949: We can only wonder what show it was that Stewart turned down and, if it was ever produced and aired with a different star. I’m sure we can assume that he had a…
Jimmy Substitutes for Fred Waring – March 22, 1948
Stewart’s third appearance on the Waring show was as a guest host for Fred. The show was already covered in our book, but quite a bit of additional information has been added here. The publicity information issued by NBC for his appearance apparently was not fact checked very well, if at all. Notice that they…
WRR-AM Interview
WRR radio began broadcasting in Dallas, Texas, in 1920, and in 1921 became the first licensed radio station in Texas and the second in the U.S. In 1947, when Jimmy Stewart and Frank Capra were in Dallas promoting their new film, It’s a Wonderful Life, they were interviewed at WRR. The 15-minute interview was broadcast…
13th Academy Awards Show
The 13th Academy Awards were presented at the Biltmore Bowl, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, on February 27, 1941. Bob Hope was the host. As seen in the listing below from the San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, CA, at least a part of the program was broadcast on the west coast from 9:30 to…
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…
The Six Shooter (1988)
The Six Shooter came back to radio for a time in the eighties. The first hint of this came to our attention in the Radio & Records Program Suppliers Guide ’88. The following ad appeared in the “Drama/Nostalgia” section: There were originally 39 shows in the series, plus an audition show, for a total of…
The Comedy Series That Never Was
On February 6, 1949, this “Erskine Johnson in Hollywood” column was published in the Daily Ardmoreite, Ardmore, OK: Mr. Johnson’s second point is that Stewart has his agents searching for a radio comedy series in which he could star. It’s a shame that their hunt turned up empty. We can only imagine what might have…
James Stewart Reads Edgar Allan Poe on the BBC
When Jimmy Stewart on the Air was written, we were in possession of a cassette tape which featured Stewart reading two Poe stories. We could not uncover any information that these had been aired on the radio and the cassette was marked, “This recording is strictly copyright and use is restricted to Educational Purposes.” So,…
