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Brave Tomorrow
''Brave Tomorrow'' is an old-time radio soap opera in the United States. It was broadcast on NBC October 11, 1943 – June 30, 1944. Format ''Brave Tomorrow'' focused on Hal and Louise Lambert and the challenges that they faced while raising daughters Jean and Marty during World War II. A continuing facet of the drama was the older daughter's marriage to a military man who was in training to serve overseas. Ivory Snow sponsored the 15-minute program. Personnel The characters on ''Brave Tomorrow'' and the actors who portrayed them are shown in the table below. Source: ''Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows'' except as noted. Others heard regularly on the program were Ginger Jones, Myra McCormick, Margaret MacDonald and Paul Stewart. Ed Herlihy was the announcer. William Meader provided the music. The writer was Ruth Adams Knight. See also *List of radio soap operas *Radio drama Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old-time Radio
The Golden Age of Radio, also known as the old-time radio (OTR) era, was an era of radio in the United States where it was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted through the 1950s, when television superseded radio as the medium of choice for scripted programming, variety and dramatic shows. Radio was the first broadcast medium, and during this period people regularly tuned in to their favorite radio programs, and families gathered to listen to the home radio in the evening. According to a 1947 C. E. Hooper survey, 82 out of 100 Americans were found to be radio listeners. A variety of new entertainment formats and genres were created for the new medium, many of which later migrated to television: radio plays, mystery serials, soap operas, quiz shows, talent shows, daytime and evening variety hours, situation comedies, play-by-play sports, children's shows, cooking show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Jameson
House Baker Jameson (December 17, 1902 – April 23, 1971)DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). ''Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 139. was an American actor in the era of old-time radio and early television. Early years Jameson was a native of Austin, Texas. He was named for Edward M. House, a political figure who was a friend of the family. He graduated from Columbia University. Jameson said that he knew at age 5 that he wanted to be an actor, when an aunt, who raised him after his father died, took him to see a performance of '' The Shepherd King.'' Jameson told ''TV Guide'' that after the family returned home, he "absolutely refused to go to bed until the family rustled up some costumes and re-enacted the play." Radio Jameson broke into radio in the early 1930s, as an announcer with WEVD. Jameson admired a WEVD announcer named Roland Bradley in Chicago, and wrote him a letter telling him so. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Radio Programme Endings
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech. * Janua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 Radio Programme Debuts
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 10 – WWII: Guadalcanal campaign, Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces of the 2nd Marine Division and the 25th Infantry Division (United States), 25th Infantry Division begin their assaults on the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse#Galloping Horse, Galloping Horse and Sea Horse on Guadalcanal. Meanwhile, the Japanese Seventeenth Army (Japan), 17th Army makes plans to abandon the island and after fierce resistance withdraws to the west coast of Guadalcanal. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China (1912–194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Drama
Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatized, dramatised, purely acoustic performance. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatised works of fiction, as well as Play (theatre), plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre, and opera. Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, radio drama began losing its audience. However, it remains popular in much of the world. Recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors, lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Radio Soap Operas
Radio drama, Radio daytime drama serials were broadcast for decades, and some expanded to television. These dramas are often referred to as "soaps", a shortening from "soap opera". That term stems from the original dramatic Serial (radio and television), serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive, and Lever Brothers as sponsors and producers. These early radio serials were broadcast in weekday daytime slots when mostly housewives would be able to listen; thus the shows were aimed at and consumed by a predominantly female audience.Bowles, p. 118 References {{DEFAULTSORT:Radio Soaps, List of Radio dramas, Soap American radio soap operas Radio-related lists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Herlihy
Edward Joseph Herlihy (August 14, 1909 – January 30, 1999)Cox, Jim (2008). ''This Day in Network Radio: A Daily Calendar of Births, Debuts, Cancellations and Other Events in Broadcasting History''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . was an American newsreel narrator for Universal-International. He was also a long-time radio and television announcer for NBC, hosting ''The Horn and Hardart Children's Hour'' in the 1940s and 1950, and was briefly interim announcer on ''The Tonight Show'' in 1962. He was also the voice of Kraft Foods radio and television commercials from the 1940s through the early 1980s. When he died in 1999, his obituary in ''The New York Times'' said he was "A Voice of Cheer and Cheese". Radio and television Educated at Boston College, graduating in 1932, he gained his first radio job in his home town, at Boston's WLOE. When he was hired by NBC in 1935, he decamped for New York, along with his friend, fellow Boston announcer Frank Gallop, who was hired by CBS. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Stewart (actor)
Paul Stewart (born Paul Sternberg; March 13, 1908 – February 17, 1986) was an American character actor, director and producer who worked in theatre, radio, films and television. He frequently portrayed cynical and sinister characters throughout his career. A friend and associate of Orson Welles for many years, Stewart helped Welles get his first job in radio and was associate producer of the celebrated radio program "The War of the Worlds", in which he also performed. One of the Mercury Theatre players who made their film debut in Welles's landmark film ''Citizen Kane'', Stewart portrayed Kane's butler and valet, Raymond. He appeared in 50 films, and performed in or directed some 5,000 radio and television shows. Biography Paul Stewart was born in Manhattan, New York, on March 13, 1908, as Paul Sternberg. His parents were Maurice D. Sternberg, a salesman and credit agent for a textile manufacturer, and Nathalie C. (née Nathanson) Sternberg; both were born in Minneapoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Lovejoy
Frank Andrew Lovejoy Jr. (March 28, 1912 – October 2, 1962) was an American actor in radio, film, and television. He is perhaps best remembered for appearing in the film noir ''The Hitch-Hiker'' and for starring in the radio drama ''Night Beat (radio program), Night Beat''. Early life He was born in the Bronx, New York (state), New York, but grew up in New Jersey. His father, Frank Andrew Lovejoy Sr., was a furniture salesman from Maine. His mother, Nora, was born in Massachusetts, to Irish people, Irish immigrant parents. Radio A successful radio actor, Lovejoy played Broadway Harry on the ''The Gay Nineties Revue (radio program), Gay Nineties Revue'' and was heard on the 1930s crime drama series ''Gang Busters''. Lovejoy was a narrator (during the first season) for the show ''This Is Your FBI''. In radio soap operas, Lovejoy played Dr. Christopher Ellerbe in ''Valiant Lady (radio program), Valiant Lady'',Buxton, Frank and Owen, Bill (1972). ''The Big Broadcast: 1920–1950'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andree Wallace
Andree Wallace is an American actress who has performed on radio, television, and stage. Early years Wallace was born in Brooklyn "into an extraordinarily large family" of Scottish ancestry via both her Campbell mother and her Wallace father. Her father had been a shopkeeper in Scotland, and he became a gardener in a cemetery in Brooklyn. Her mother operated a rooming house in East Flatbush. She graduated from Girls' Commercial High School in Brooklyn, where she took a dramatics class. Career Wallace first worked professionally in radio when she was 17 years old, obtaining a role on ''The Little Blue Playhouse'' for $10 per episode. By 1948, she had acted on radio and on stage in summer stock productions, in Blackfriar's productions, and in productions of the Equity Library Theatre On February 3, 1948, she debuted in the title role of Michael Sayers's ''Kathleen'' at the Mansfield Theatre on Broadway. Wallace's roles on radio included Marty Lambert on ''Brave Tomorrow'', Cynt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flora Campbell
Flora Campbell (August 1, 1911 – November 6, 1978) was an American actress on radio, television, and stage. Campbell was born in Oklahoma, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. Bernard Campbell. She had a twin sister, Dorothy. She did her collegiate studies at the University of Chicago, studied violin at Chicago's Musical College, and won a scholarship to study acting under Eva Le Gallienne. In the 1930s, Campbell gained early acting experience in stock theater with the Club Playhouse Group in Maryland. She appeared on Broadway in various roles in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. On radio, Campbell played Jean Lambert on '' Brave Tomorrow'' and Janice King on ''The Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters''. On television, Campbell played Karen St. John in '' Faraway Hill'', Helen Emerson on '' Woman with a Past'', Dr. Robin McKay in ''The Seeking Heart'', Dora Foster in '' A Date with Judy'' and Helen Emerson on '' Valiant Lady''. On August 24, 1939, Campbell married Ben Cutler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
