Theater of the Mind
Portland Hoffa
Cast
Born January 25, 1905.
223 episodes in 6 shows · 1932–1956
Portland Hoffa started out as a dancer in vaudeville and 1920s Broadway revues before joining Fred Allen's vaudeville routines. She became a series regular on The Fred Allen Show, playing an eager girl of about thirteen and becoming known for her high-pitched voice. She later appeared as a semi-regular on Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show and helped compile the book Fred Allen's Letters.
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The Fred Allen Show215 · Cast
1932
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
- The Case of the Disappearing Elephant
- The Department Store Santa
1936
- Murder at the Microphone
- Mumbo
- Lord Falconbeak's Dilemma
- Going, Going, Gone
- The Fatal Shot
- Murder Backstage
- Colonel Culpepper's Plight
- The Studio's Dilemma
- Hortense's Dilemma
- Sandy's Crime
- The Lost Vice President
- The Slogan
- The Comedian's Plight
- Trombone Annie
- Murder in the Chop House
- Welcome Stranger
- Stoopnagle and Budd
- Will She Come Out?
- Murder at Cupcake County
- Studio Strategy
- The Great Dane Mystery
- The Egg Baron
- The Prodigal Daughter's Return
- The Community Sing
- The First Department Store Santa
1937
- Murder on the High Seas
- St. Patrick's Day
- The Coronation
- The Tycoon's Dilemma
- The Great Swimming Pool Mystery
1938
- High, Wide and Homely
- The Hotel Mystery
- The True Story of Your Hero
- Who Killed the Hula-Hula Dancer?
- The House That Jack Built
- The Program Was Killing Them
- The Music Publisher Needed a Tune
- The Studio's Predicament
- Mountain Malfeasance
- The Bank's Dilemma
1939
- Murder at the Opera
- Murder at Addison Square Garden
- The Studio's Plight
- Crisis on the Showboat
- The Sound Man's Revenge
1940
- The Political Amateur Hour
- The Visibility Was Poor, but the Pilot Could See His Finish
- The Missing Cat
- The Eagle Show
- The Laziest Man in the World
- The Crisis in the Central Park Zoo
- From Nipper to Nobody
- He Caught His Wife Kissing a Stranger
- Information Tease
- 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
- Mountain Justice (1940)
- The Eagle Is Back
- The Great Department Store Dilemma
- Death Comes to the Mystery Story Writer
- The Dentist's Plight
- Santa Claus Sits Down
- Murder at the Faculty Club
1941
- All Is Not Gold That Glitters
- The Specialist's Quandary
- They Almost Junked the Junket
- A Stay-at-Home Cruise to Havana
- Mountain Justice (1941)
- Truth or Subsequences
- Milk
- Western Union
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Philander Blank: My Story
- Nicotine Alley
- The Wedlock Society
- One Long Pan Takes a Chance
- Shortcut to a Nervous Breakdown
- Sleep
- The Undoing of Abner Snide
- 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
- The Hour of Good Intentions
- Havoc in the Auto Factory
- Death Comes to Barnegie Hall
- Mob-Breakers
- How Clean Is My Alley
- Death Valley Takes a Holiday
1942
- Mayhem at King Tut's Tomb
- The Hardy Family in the Penitentiary
- The Great Side Show Mystery
- Jack Haley in Court
- A Star Is Born
- Vacation Plans
- Poor Old Charlie
- Roland Young and the Shrimp Cocktail
- Les Miserables
- The Courtin' of Ginny Suggs
- Robert Benchley
- Hugh Herbert
- Accept It or Pip Off
- Fred at the Opera
- A New Suit
- The First Allen's Alley
- 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
- Jimmy Durante and the War Stamps
- Bela Lugosi's House
- Are You Raising Chickens?
- Fred's Life Story
- The Jockey Who Rode with Death
- Life Can Be Melchior
1944
- Lum Allen and His Barefoot Bobcats
- Duffy's Tavern
- The Three Dollars
- Louella Parsons' Last Stand
- Murder in Studio H
- The Black Market Murders
- Victory Gardens
- Fixing the Ticket
- Radio Versus Television
- The Pekinese of the Baskervilles
- North Dakota
- The Story of Moose Max
- One by Allen
- Portland's Birthday
- South Dakota
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)
- The Perfect Crime, with James Mason
- Selling Life Stories (Guest: Jack Haley)
- New Year's Eve Plans (Guest: George Jessel)
- Returning Fred's Cuckoo Clock (Guest: Monty Woolley)
1948
- One Long Pan
- Husband and Wife Radio Show (Guests: James and Pamela Mason)
- One Long Pan (Guest: Basil Rathbone)
- The Author Meets His Match (Guest: James Farley)
- Baseball Tickets (Guest: Leo Durocher)
- Break the Contestant (Guest: Don McNeill)
- Prize for Listeners Missing Any Contest (Guest: Dale Carnegie)
- TV Commercials (Guest: Henry Morgan)
- Maine Murder Trial
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)
Command Performance2 · Cast
Recollections at Thirty2 · Cast
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