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Arnold Grimm's Daughter
''Arnold Grimm's Daughter'' is an American radio soap opera that was broadcast from July 5, 1937, until June 26, 1942, first on CBS and later on NBC. Premise After Connie Grimm eloped with Dallas Tremaine (her childhood sweetheart) her tyrannical father, Arnold, opposed the marriage so much that he disowned Connie, while Dal's mother ("a schemer") "disliked Connie and plotted against her". Connie found second-hand furniture and an old house in which to set up their home while artist Dal never finished the pictures that he began painting. She also provided financial support by operating a business in partnership with French lingerie dealer Madame Babette. At one point Dal took all of the money from Connie's purse and used it on a fling in Chicago. She forgave him when he returned, but he continued to brood over their poverty. Gladys Grimm was Arnold's wife. Jimmy Kent was a designer and Bill Hartley was Arnold Grimm's business partner. Judy was Connie's outspoken and sometimes f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Lou Gerson
Betty Lou Gerson (April 20, 1914 – January 12, 1999) was an American actress, predominantly active in radio but also in film and television and as a voice actress. She is best known as the original voice of Cruella de Vil from the Disney animated film ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'' (1961) for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1996. Life and career Early life Gerson was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on April 20, 1914, but raised in Birmingham, Alabama, where her father was an executive with a steel company. She was Jewish. She was educated in private schools in Birmingham and Miami, Florida. At age 16, she moved with her family to Chicago, where she performed in the radio serial ''The First Nighter Program''. She later moved to New York City. Radio and film She began her acting career in radio drama in 1935, while still in her 20s, and became a mainstay of soap operas during this period, appearing on ''Arnold Grimm's Daughter'' (as the titular daughter Constanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Prentiss
Paul Edward Prentiss (September 9, 1908 – March 19, 1992) was an actor in the era of old-time radio.DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 219. He was perhaps best known for portraying the title role on the radio version of ''Captain Midnight''. Early years Prentiss was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended the University of Iowa. Radio Radio historian Jim Harmon noted, in his book ''The Great Radio Heroes'', "Ed Prentiss was not the first actor to play Captain Midnight, contrary to some published reports." After Bill Bouchey had the role in the program's second season, Prentiss auditioned for the third season, got the part, and continued as Captain Midnight for seven years. On ''The Guiding Light'' soap opera, Prentiss played Ned (a "neglected youth") and was the program's "omniscient host." Beginning in 1943, Prentiss was narrator for an hour-long block consis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Ellis (actor, Born 1892)
Robert Ellis Reel (June 27, 1892 – December 29, 1974), known professionally as Robert Ellis, was an American film actor, screenwriter and film director. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1913 and 1934. He also wrote for 65 films and directed 61. Biography Ellis was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 27, 1892, and he attended St. Francis Xavier College in New York City. Ellis's wives included actresses May Allison and Vera Reynolds and screenwriter Helen Logan. He and Logan wed in 1962, following Reynolds's death. His relationship with Reynolds drew public attention in 1938 as a lawsuit ended when the two decided to marry. Reynolds had sued Ellis for $180,000 for breach of promise, asserting that after their 1926 marriage in Greenwich, Connecticut, was found to be invalid, he had promised to marry her but failed to follow through. After a month's hearing, their decision to marry ended the litigation. On Broadway, Ellis portrayed Dan Huntley in ''Baxter's Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Dane
Frank Dane was a British actor of the silent era. Dane was born Frank Hughbert Thomas Crust on 7 June 1885 in Deal, Kent. He died in 1957 at age 71 in Chichester, Sussex. Selected filmography * '' A Daughter of England'' (1915) * ''Justice'' (1917) * ''Democracy'' (1918) * '' Hindle Wakes'' (1918) * '' The Romance of Lady Hamilton'' (1919) * ''Lorna Doone'' (1920) * ''Uncle Dick's Darling'' (1920) * '' The Black Tulip'' (1921) * '' Blood Money'' (1921) * '' Innocent'' (1921) * '' Silent Evidence'' (1922) * ''Creation Creation may refer to: Religion *'' Creatio ex nihilo'', the concept that matter was created by God out of nothing *Creation myth, a religious story of the origin of the world and how people first came to inhabit it *Creationism, the belief that ...'' (1922) * '' I Pagliacci'' (1923) * '' The Hoosier Schoolmaster'' (1924) References External links * 1885 births 1957 deaths English male stage actors English male film actors English male silent film act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WGN (AM)
WGN (720 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, with studios on the 18th floor of 303 East Wacker Drive in the Chicago Loop. WGN has a news/talk format, along with broadcasts of Chicago Blackhawks hockey and Northwestern University football and basketball. WGN is the only radio station owned by Nexstar Media Group, which primarily owns television stations. From 1924 to 2014, WGN was owned by Tribune Media, which also owned the ''Chicago Tribune'', whose "World's Greatest Newspaper" slogan served as the basis for the WGN call sign. WGN is a clear channel, Class A station, broadcasting at the maximum power of 50,000 watts, and using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter is on Martingdale Road in Elk Grove Village, near Interstate 290. During daytime hours, near-perfect ground conductivity gives WGN at least secondary coverage to almost two-thirds of Illinois (as far south as Springfield) as well as large slices of Wisconsin, Indiana, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Hummert
Edward Frank Hummert, Jr. (June 2, 1884 – March 12, 1966), professionally known as Frank Hummert and sometimes credited as E. Frank Hummert, was an American advertising agent originally but was best known for writing/producing episodes of nearly 100 daytime/primetime radio dramas and soap opera serials between the 1930s and the 1950s. Hummert, along with his wife Anne Hummert, became the monarchs of daytime radio with dramas such as ''Just Plain Bill'' (1932–55), ''The Romance of Helen Trent'' (1933–60), ''Ma Perkins'' (1933–60), and ''Backstage Wife'' (1935–59). After the success of these dramas, the Hummerts formed Hummert Radio Productions. Under Hummert Productions, creating the basic plots and assigning an assembly line of writers to complete the scripts, they produced more than 40 radio shows, including the soap operas '' Stella Dallas'' (1938–55) and ''Young Widder Brown'' (1938–56); the mystery shows ''Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons'' (1937–54), and '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Hummert
Anne Hummert (née Schumacher) (January 19, 1905 – July 5, 1996) was the leading creator of daytime radio serials or soap opera dramas during the 1930s and 1940s, responsible for more than three dozen series. Biography She was born in Baltimore, Maryland, one of four children. Little is known about her parents or her childhood: some sources say her father Frederick was a police lieutenant; census documents say he was a steamfitter and contractor, and still other sources say he was an engineer."We Pay Our Respects". '' Broadcasting Magazine'', April 1, 1935, p. 31. After attending Towson High School, she attended Goucher College, where she majored in history, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and ''magna cum laude'' in 1925. While at Goucher she also worked as a college correspondent for ''The Baltimore Sun''. She then took a job with the Paris precursor of the '' International Herald Tribune''. It was in France that she married reporter John Ashenhurst, a former member of ''The Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Sangster (radio Writer)
Margaret Sangster (1894 - October 23, 1981) was an American writer who primarily produced scripts for radio programs. Early years Sangster was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Manson Sangster. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, living there until she was 20 years old. Her mother was an invalid, which limited Sangster's activity as a child. When she ventured beyond the front stoop of their home, her mother tapped sharply on her upstairs window with a thimble, beckoning her back to the stoop. "On occasion," she recalled in 1934, "I was permitted to sit on a hassock while tea was served, but I wasn't permitted to talk. I really was a model child. It was very uninteresting." Her father was a newspaperman in New York, and her grandmother was Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, a writer and editor. Her grandmother became blind, and the younger Margaret spent several hours a day reading to her. Sangster's childhood shaped her outlook as a professional writer, causing her to say, "I never have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonely Women
''Lonely Women'' was a radio soap opera in the United States during World War II. It "told of women separated from their men by war." The 15-minute program, which was sponsored by General Mills, ran one season on NBC, with its first episode broadcast June 29, 1942."Dunning, John (1976). ''Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. 1925-1976''. Prentice-Hall, Inc. , Pp. 371-372. Creator ''Lonely Women'' was conceived and written by Irna Phillips, a prolific producer of radio soap operas. Her entry on the Jewish Women's Archive website notes her contributions to the genre as follows:Working with a full-time secretary and staff of writers and researchers, Phillips produced five daytime serials during the early 1940s. Among her most popular radio soap operas were ''The Guiding Light'', ''Woman in White'', ''The Right to Happiness'', ''Lonely Women'', and '' The ‘New’ Today’s Children''. Known for her trademark cliff-hangers, the use of organ music to creat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Radio Programme Debuts
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1942 Radio Programme Endings
Year 194 ( CXCIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Septimius and Septimius (or, less frequently, year 947 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 194 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus and Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Caesar become Roman Consuls. * Battle of Issus: Septimius Severus marches with his army (12 legions) to Cilicia, and defeats Pescennius Niger, Roman governor of Syria. Pescennius retreats to Antioch, and is executed by Severus' troops. * Septimius Severus besieges Byzantium (194–196); the city walls suffer extensive damage. Asia * Battle of Yan Province: Warlords Cao Cao and Lü Bu fight for control over Yan Province; the battle lasts for over 100 d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
