Next week's schedule - RadioClassics Grid 2008-08-18 Wk-Landscape.xls (26.50 kb)
Hey gang,
Okay so we are already into the week and many of you have long known what is playing but it bears mentioning once again. Three series are introduced this week (with many more to come over the next few weeks or so); The Chase, The Adventures of Frank Race and The Judy Canova (seen below) Show.
The genius of movie thrillers, Alfred Hitchcock was born 109 years ago Wednesday (August 13th 1899 - Died April 29th, 1980), so I'm bringing back two of his films adapted for radio. Up first it's a one hour Screen Director's Playhouse version of Spellbound, with Joseph Cotten filling in for Gregory Peck and Mercedes McCambridge in for Ingrid Bergman. After that, I am playing a half-hour Screen Guild Players version of his 1940 Best Picture winner, Rebecca. Again a couple of fill-in actors though, Loretta Young for Joan Fontaine and John Lund for Laurence Olivier.
NOTE: Different browsers format the pictures differently so; instead of a regular caption we have this - (Below) Joseph Cotten, Mercedes McCambridge, Loretta Young, John Lund (with Olivia DeHavilland), Alfred Hitchcock.
Also born this week, Cecil B. DeMille (August 12th, 1881 - Died January 21st, 1959) and he will be heard hosting Lux Radio Theatre's 1939 episode of the 1937 comedy motion picture, The Awful Truth starring Cary Grant with one more fill-in actress as Claudette Colbert steps in for Irene Dunne.
(Below) Cecil B. DeMille, Cary Grant, Claudette Colbert.
Finally, by very popular demand, George Stewart's story of the survivors of a devastating worldwide plague, Earth Abides will again be heard on Escape. It features John Dehner, Peggy Webber, Parley Baer and Michael Ann Barrett.
(Below) Earth Abides paperback cover, John Dehner, Parley Baer. Sorry, I couldn't find good pictures of Peggy Webber or Michael Ann Barrett.
Greg
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