Theater of the Mind
Minerva Pious
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Born March 5, 1903.
184 episodes in 8 shows · 1933–1949
Minerva Pious was a radio comedy actress known for her dialect characters. On Fred Allen's programs she created Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum, the malaprop-prone housewife who was a regular in the Allen's Alley segments from 1942 until the show ended in 1949. She also brought Mrs. Nussbaum to The Jack Benny Program and Duffy's Tavern as a guest, and worked on The Alan Young Show, The Goldbergs and Columbia Workshop.
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The Fred Allen Show155 · Cast
1933
1935
- The Mountain Bride
- Once an Amateur, Always an Amateur
- Who Killed Kirk Reuben?
- The Wild Women of the Wilderness
- Whoopee on the Volga
1936
- Mumbo
- The Studio's Dilemma
- The Slogan
- Murder in the Chop House
- Welcome Stranger
- Will She Come Out?
- Murder at Cupcake County
- The Egg Baron
- The Prodigal Daughter's Return
- The Community Sing
1937
1938
1939
1940
- The Political Amateur Hour
- The Missing Cat
- The Laziest Man in the World
- From Nipper to Nobody
- He Caught His Wife Kissing a Stranger
- The Barber College
- The Curse of Ra
- Death Takes a Pretzel Baron
- The Senator's Dilemma
- The Million Dollar Smile
- Us, the People Speak
- The Sea Buzzard
- Death Takes a Boniface
- The Story of Bramson Snide
- Death Comes to the Mystery Story Writer
- Santa Claus Sits Down
- Murder at the Faculty Club
1941
- The Quiz Nippers
- All Is Not Gold That Glitters
- The Specialist's Quandary
- A Stay-at-Home Cruise to Havana
- Mountain Justice (1941)
- Milk
- Western Union
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Philander Blank: My Story
- Nicotine Alley
- One Long Pan Takes a Chance
- Shortcut to a Nervous Breakdown
- Sleep
- The Baritone's Plight
- Jack Benny's Tenth Anniversary
- Rhyme Doesn't Pay
- Who Killed Carmen Feitlebaum?
- The Great Studio Economy Wave
- One Long Pan on the Ghost-to-Ghost Network
- The Saga of the Great American Drugstore
- No Blood and No Sand
- Havoc in the Auto Factory
- Death Comes to Barnegie Hall
- Mob-Breakers
- How Clean Is My Alley
1942
- Mayhem at King Tut's Tomb
- The Hardy Family in the Penitentiary
- A Star Is Born
- Poor Old Charlie
- Roland Young and the Shrimp Cocktail
- The Courtin' of Ginny Suggs
- Robert Benchley
- Hugh Herbert
- Accept It or Pip Off
- Fred at the Opera
- A New Suit
- Santa Claus Refuses to Mediate
1943
- The Missing Shot
- Jack Benny's Violin
- Oscar Levant
- The Phantom of Carnegie Hall
- The Shot in the Penthouse
- Fred's One Hundredth Texaco Show
- The Great Goldfish Murder
- Bela Lugosi's House
- Are You Raising Chickens?
- Fred's Life Story
- The Jockey Who Rode with Death
- Life Can Be Melchior
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
- British Radio
- 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)
- 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 Program20 · Cast
- Clown Hall Tonight (1940)
- Christmas Shopping (1940)
- From New York (1941)
- Jack Recalls His African Trip
- Casablanca
- Algiers (1943)
- Jack in Brazil
- The Lone Palm
- Jack Dreams He Is a Turkey
- Dennis Wants a Raise
- Jack Gets a Driver's License
- Jack and Mary Go Christmas Shopping
- Christmas at Jack's House
- Jack Has a Pet Camel
- The Horn Blows at Midnight
- Captain O'Benny
- Allen's Alley
- Guests Amos 'n' Andy
- Mrs. Nussbaum's Restaurant
- From Mitchell Field
The Alan Young Show3 · Cast
The Abbott and Costello Show2 · Cast
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