Theater of the Mind
Kenny Delmar
Cast, Narrator, Announcer
Born September 5, 1910.
272 episodes in 13 shows · 1938–1957
Kenny Delmar announced The March of Time and Your Hit Parade and played several parts in the Mercury Theatre's 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds. He was in the Cavalcade of America repertory cast and voiced Commissioner Weston on early episodes of The Shadow. On Fred Allen's show he was both announcer and the creator of Senator Claghorn, the character who inspired the cartoon rooster Foghorn Leghorn.
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Cavalcade of America102 · Cast, Narrator
1939
1940
- The Raven Wins Texas
- Thomas Jefferson
- Enoch Crosby, the Spy
- The Stolen General
- Sam Houston
- Jordan's Banks
- The Story of John Fitch
- The Story of Benedict Arnold
- The Story of Thomas Paine
- John Sutter
- Victor Herbert
- Susan B. Anthony
- The Story of Dr. Reed
- The Lost Colony
- Valley Forge (1940)
- The Pathfinder of the Seas
- Ann Rutledge and Lincoln
- The Red Death
- Wild Bill Hickok
- Doctor Franklin Goes to Court
- The Farmer Takes a Wife
- Light in the Hills
- John Brown
- The Undefended Border
1941
- Will Rogers
- Mightier Than the Sword
- As a Man Thinketh
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Voice in the Wilderness
- Black Rust
- I Sing a New World
- Down to the Sea
- Edwin Booth
- Ode to a Nightingale
- A Passage to Georgia
- Henry Bergh, Founder of the A.S.P.C.A
- The Heart and the Foundation
- The Trials and Triumphs of Horatio Alger
- Theodosia Burr
- David Crockett
- Johns Hopkins
- The Woman in Lincoln's Cabinet
- Young Andrew Jackson
- Annie Oakley
- Joel Chandler Harris
- Jean Pierre Blanchard
- The Mystery of the Spotted Death
- Ann Hutchinson
- O. Henry
- Clifford Holland
- Josephine Baker
- Red Lanterns on St. Michael's
- Eve of Conflict
- Sacajawea
- Leif Ericson
- Geronimo
- City of Illusion
- Native Land, Part One
- Native Land, Part Two
- Captain Paul
- One Foot in Heaven
- Drums Along the Mohawk
- They Died with Their Boots on
- So Red the Rose
- Men in White
- The Gorgeous Hussy
1942
- The Dark Angel
- Angels on Horseback
- Yellow Jack
- The Printer Was a Lady
- A Tooth for Paul Revere
- The Gentleman from the Islands
- Man of Design
- This Our Exile
- I, Mary Washington
- Eagle to Britain
- Juarez
- I Was Married on Bataan
- Admiral of the Ocean Sea
- Alaska Under Arms
- Sister Kenny
- A Child Is Born
- The Eagle's Nest
1943
- Between Them Both
- Diary on a Pig Boat
- Soldiers of the Tide
- The Flying Tigers
- The Perfect Tribute
- War Comes to Dr. Morgan
- The Plot to Kidnap Washington
- Diary of a Saboteur
- The Eighteenth Captain
- A Case for the F.B.I
- Lifetide (1943)
- The Cook on the P.T. Boat Writes Home
- Listen for the Sound of Wings
1949
1951
1952
The Fred Allen Show60 · Cast, Announcer
1942
1944
1945
- Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy
- Hillbilly Music (Guest: Frank Sinatra)
- Charlie McCarthy Sues for Slander
- Mash Notes (Guest: Martha Raye)
- Charlie the Chicken (Guest: Monty Woolley)
- Renting a House (Guest: Boris Karloff)
- The Brooklyn Pinafore (1945)
- Seeking a Radio Job
- Radio Shows in Russia
1946
- Take It or Leave It (Guest: Phil Baker)
- A Movie on Fred's Life (Guest: George Jessel)
- Beethoven's Confession
- Piccadilly Oklahoma (Guest: Beatrice Lillie)
- Les Misérables (Guest: Orson Welles)
- Carmen Miranda Visits
- The Brooklyn Pinafore (1946)
- The Racing Form Trial
- Mr. and Mrs. Breakfast Show (Guest: Tallulah Bankhead)
- Cairo (Guest: Sydney Greenstreet)
- King for a Day
- The Bowery
- Anniversary of the Telephone (Guest: Oscar Levant)
- Love, Honor and Obey
- Mr. and Mrs. Breakfast Show Reprise (Guest: Tallulah Bankhead)
1947
- Buying Duffy's Tavern
- Lawbusters
- Lauritz Melchior Wants a Radio Job
- Murder in the Penthouse (Guests: The Quiz Kids)
- Picadilly, with Beatrice Lillie
- Suing Fred over Piccadilly Rights (Guests: Rodgers and Hammerstein)
- The Hollywood Mikado
- Gimmick with a Microphone (Guest: Rudy Vallee)
- I Stand Condemned
- Fred the Boarder (Guests: Ozzie and Harriet)
- The Perfect Crime, with James Mason
- New Year's Eve Plans (Guest: George Jessel)
- Returning Fred's Cuckoo Clock (Guest: Monty Woolley)
1948
- One Long Pan
- One Long Pan (Guest: Basil Rathbone)
- The Author Meets His Match (Guest: James Farley)
- Baseball Tickets (Guest: Leo Durocher)
- J.P. Morgan Court of Human Relations (Guest: Henry Morgan)
- Break the Contestant (Guest: Don McNeill)
- Bing Crosby's Life Story (Guest: Bing Crosby)
- Quiz Program and Soap Opera (Guest: Jack Eigen)
- Prize for Listeners Missing Any Contest (Guest: Dale Carnegie)
- TV Commercials (Guest: Henry Morgan)
1949
- Literary Panel (Guest: H. Allen Smith)
- Traveling Salesman (Guest: Jack Haley)
- Fred Tries to Get Rudy Vallee into TV
- Planning a Television Show (Guest: Bert Lahr)
- Murder Case (Guest: Doc Rockwell)
- Cease the Melody
- Just Plain Fred
- Mob Buster (Guest: Victor Moore)
- The Mad Doctor of Downing Street
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- The Final Fred Allen Show (Guests: Jack Benny and Henry Morgan)
The Jack Benny Program50 · Cast
- Jack Looks for a Replacement Singer
- Frank Sinatra
- Captain O'Benny
- Allen's Alley
- Guests Amos 'n' Andy
- Jack Hires Larry Stevens
- From Corona Naval Hospital
- How the Gang Spent Thanksgiving
- Jack Gets Mad and Goes Home
- Jack Resolves to Be Friends with Fred Allen
- Mrs. Nussbaum's Restaurant
- Ice Skating in Central Park
- From Mitchell Field
- From St. Albans Naval Hospital
- From Glenview Naval Air Station
- From St. Joseph, Missouri
- From Fitzsimons Hospital, Denver
- How Jack Found Rochester
- How Jack Found Mary
- The Woman in the Window
- Professor LeBlanc's First Lesson
- Jack Is Going to San Francisco
- Steve Bradley Wants to Be Jack's Publicity Man
- Gaslight
- The Robbery
- Tire Trouble
- The I Can't Stand Jack Benny Contest
- Dinner at the Colmans'
- Hello, Louella
- The English Butler
- End of the Contest
- State Fair
- Contest Winners
- From Palm Springs (1946)
- Rochester Lost at Sea
- Guest Gilbert Seldes
- Lost Weekend
- Dennis Returns from the Navy
- I Stand Condemned
- A Sad Soldier Is Discharged
- Weekend at the Acme Plaza
- Jack Practices Next Door to Ronald Colman
- Aboard the Saratoga
- The Kid from Brooklyn
- Leaving for Chicago on the Train
- Quiz Kids Contest
- Fred Allen Asks Jack to Be on His Show
- Ed Sullivan Gives Jack an Award
- From New York (1947)
- Allen's Alley Spoof
The Shadow38 · Cast
- The White Legion
- Traffic in Death
- Black Rock
- Prelude to Terror
- The Ghost of Captain Bayloe
- Can the Dead Talk?
- Dead Men Talk
- Phantom Fingerprints
- Mansion of Madness
- The Shadow Returns
- The Sandhog Murders
- Death Shows the Way
- Flight of the Vulture
- Murder Incorporated
- The Stockings Were Hung
- The Cat That Killed
- The Return of Carnation Charlie
- Death Is an Art
- The Laughing Corpse
- Murderer's Vanity
- The Plot That Failed
- Death in a Minor Key
- The Isle of the Living Dead
- The Mark of the Black Widow
- The Voice of Death
- The Ghost on the Stair
- The Leopard Strikes
- The Ghost Building
- The Ghost Walks Again
- Voodoo
- The Hoodoo Ship
- The Case of the Three Frightened Policemen
- The Ring of Light
- The Return of Anatole Chevanic
- Death Speaks Twice
- Altar of Death
- Death Keeps a Deadline
- The Crystal Globe
The Alan Young Show13 · Cast, Announcer
The Mercury Theatre on the Air2 · Cast
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