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…
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Mary Margaret McBride
McBride hosted a talk/interview show broadcast from WABC in New York City. For most of its run, the show aired weekdays at 1 p.m. An ancillary show, Saturday Digest, aired on Saturdays. The shows were produced by Stella Karn and Vincent Connolly served as announcer. Her show was one of the most popular of its…
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…
Boy Scout Jamboree – February 9, 1952
Stewart made his fourth appearance on this Scouting program this year. The first newspaper preview is from the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, WI, on the day of the broadcast: This second clipping is from the New York Times: Notice that the Wisconsin State Journal lists it as a one-hour program, while the New York Times…
Bing Crosby Show – January 24, 1951
This was Jimmy’s second appearance on Bing’s new Chesterfield Show for CBS Radio. Bing’s musical guest for the evening was Toni Arden. Stewart signed contracts for each individual show he did with Bing. Here are the three pages of the contract for this show. You can see for yourself just how involved the contracts were…
Lux Radio Theatre – You Gotta Stay Happy
Joan Fontaine, as Dee Dee Dillwood, and Jimmy Stewart, as Marvin Payne, had starred in the 1948 film, You Gotta Stay Happy. The story was adapted for radio by Sanford H. Barnett and presented on the Lux Radio Theatre on January 17, 1949, with the same two stars. The show was produced and hosted by…
The Shootist – Soundtrack
Jimmy Stewart plays the role of E.W. “Doc” Hostetler in this 1976 John Wayne film. “Doc” has to tell John Wayne’s character that he has terminal cancer and will die an agonizing death. No soundtrack album was released at the time of the film. For years, only a few tracks from the Elmer Bernstein scored…
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…
We Hold These Truths
As detailed in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, We Hold These Truths was commissioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to mark the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Famed radio man Norman Corwin was the writer, producer and director of the program and Bernard Herrmann wrote the musical score. Corporal Jimmy…
The Glenn Miller Story Premiere
On Thursday, December 10, 1953, the world premiere of The Glenn Miller Story starring Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson took place at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. NBC radio was there to broadcast live from the theater. Shirley Towers and Eddy King talked to various celebrities as they entered the theater. In Jimmy Stewart on…
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