Tag: Arthur Q. Bryan
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SCREEN DIRECTOR’S PLAYHOUSE: MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND
May 19, 1950 Screen Directors Playhouse was a radio anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief “curtain call”…
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HOBBIES
April 9, 1950 “Hobbies” (aka “Hobbies Have Consequences”) is episode #83 of the radio series MY FAVORITE HUSBAND broadcast on April 9, 1950. Synopsis ~ Liz and Iris are tired of waiting at home on weekends while George and Rudolph are at the golf course, so they decide to leave half-smoked cigars around the house…
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BACHELOR MOTHER
March 8, 1951 Screen Directors Playhouse was a radio anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, and original directors of the films were sometimes involved, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations, and a brief “curtain call”…
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PATSY MORAN
October 13, 1905 Patsy Moran was born Adeline Alberta Moran in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She made her film debut in the Laurel and Hardy comedy Block-Heads (1938) as Lulu. She quickly followed-up with Laurel and Hardy’s Saps at Sea (1940) as a telephone switchboard operator. On radio, she portrayed boarding house owner Martha Hooper, wife of…
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LUCKY PARTNERS
September 25, 1944 “Lucky Partners” was a presentation of Lux Radio Theatre, broadcast on CBS Radio on September 25, 1944. It is based on a 1940 RKO film of the same name directed by Lewis Milestone which in turn was based on the 1935 French film Good Luck. Lucky Partners the movie starred Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers in their…