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…
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Old Time Radio Christmas
This is a 12-CD set released by Radiorevisited.com (21CD12). The Screen Directors’ Playhouse version of It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Jimmy Stewart, is included. Frank Capra, the film’s director, also makes an appearance on the program. The show was originally broadcast on May 8, 1949. …
Umphrey’s McGee
At each of their concerts, Umphrey’s McGee plays an improvisation song or two which they have named Jimmy Stewart. They took the name from a meeting room at the Renaissance Pittsburgh Hotel which was named after the Indiana, PA actor. Many different versions of this improvisation are available. None really has anything, other than its…
It’s a Wonderful Life – Soundtrack
It took many years after the film’s 1947 release for any type of soundtrack recordings to be issued. The first came in 1988 on the Sundance Film Music Series, Vol. 1 (Telarc DG-18801 [LP]/CD 88801 [CD]). The album features 10 tracks from It’s a Wonderful Life, as well as songs from the soundtracks of A…
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…
KGKO Interview
Here is another radio appearance discovered after the publication of Jimmy Stewart on the Air. On March 4, 1947, Jimmy Stewart and Frank Capra were in Beaumont, TX, for the Texas premiere of It’s a Wonderful Life. As a part of their visit, they were interviewed by R.J. O’Donnell of the Interstate Circuit. That interview…
Promotional Radio Appearance
On January 28, 1947, Stewart made a previously unknown radio appearance in Philadelphia, PA, in connection with the opening of It’s a Wonderful Life. To date, the only mention of this appearance comes from The Film Daily of that date: This is one of many stops by Stewart and Capra on their promotional tour, but…
The Larry King Show
Besides his CNN interview program for TV, King also did a five hour interview show for Mutual Radio each weeknight from midnight to 5 a.m. The show was not advertised in newspapers on any kind of regular basis. In fact, it is from short articles that we know the most about the show. The first…
Maggi’s Private Wire
Maggi McNellis was the host of this 15-minute daily NBC program. It was broadcast from 12:30 to 12:45 p.m. from Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Stewart was on the show on January 23, 1947. The listing below is from the New York Times: This show is not available, so the exact nature…
Information Please
Stewart, along with Frank Capra, appeared on this CBS program on January 22, 1947, sixty-nine years ago. In the east, the show was broadcast between 10:30 and 11 p.m. A preview of the program was published in the Mason City Globe-Gazette, Mason City, IA: Another preview in The Decatur Daily Review, Decatur, IL, added that…
