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The best of old time radio. Starring Jack Benny [sound recording]

Catalog Data

Author:
Tollin, Anthony  Search this
Benny, Jack 1894-1974  Search this
Livingstone, Mary  Search this
Harris, Phil 1904-1995  Search this
Anderson, Eddie 1905-1977  Search this
Varden, Norma  Search this
Allen, Fred 1894-1956  Search this
Rains, Claude 1889-1967  Search this
McCambridge, Mercedes  Search this
Burns, George 1896-1996  Search this
Allen, Gracie 1902-1964  Search this
Benederet, Bea  Search this
Kearns, Joseph 1904-1962  Search this
Day, Dennis 1917-1988  Search this
DeMille, Cecil B (Cecil Blount) 1881-1959  Search this
Radio Spirits, Inc  Search this
Physical description:
6 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Type:
Sound recordings
Date:
1999
1938
P1999
Notes:
Originally broadcast on radio, 1938-1957.
Compact discs.
"Digitally restored & remastered."
Program notes by Anthony Tollin, with foreword by Irving A. Fein, and bibliography (50 p. : ill. ; 13 x 14 cm.) inserted in container.
Contents:
1. The Jack Benny program, 02/17/52 / by Sam Perrin ... [et al.] (Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson) -- 2. Suspense, 06/02/52. A good and faithful servant / by Richard M. Powell (Jack Benny, Norma Varden) -- 3. The Fred Allen show, 06/26/49 / (Fred Allen, Jack Benny) -- 4. The Jack Benny program, 02/24/52 / by Sam Perrin ... [et al.] (Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson) -- 5. The Ford theater, 03/04/49. The horn blows at midnight / adapted for radio by Hugh Wedlock, Jr. and Howard Snyder (Jack Benny, Claude Rains, Mercedes McCambridge) -- 6. (The best of) The Jack Benny program, 01/20/57 (previously broadcast 11/21/54) / by Sam Perrin ... [et al.] (Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson) -- 7. The Burns and Allen show, 11/29/45 / by Paul Henning, Keith Fowler, and Willie Burns (George Burns, Gracie Allen, Jack Benny) -- 8. Suspense, 04/05/51. Murder in G-flat / by Richard George Petachini (Jack Benny, Bea Benaderet, Joseph Kearns) -- 9. (The best of) The Jack Benny program, 01/27/57 (previously broadcast 01/23/55) / by Milt Josefsberg ... [et al.] (Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Eddie Anderson, Dennis Day) -- 10. The Lux radio theatre, 09/26/38. Seven keys to baldpate / based on the play by George M. Cohan (Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Cecil B. DeMille)
Topic:
Radio programs  Search this
Radio comedies  Search this
Call number:
disc 000299
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_632857