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The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour
70 episodes · 1932–1936 · NBC · Variety & Music
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Rudy Vallee's pioneering NBC variety hour, on the air from 1929 to 1936. NBC program head Bertha Brainard pushed to give the singer and bandleader a series of his own. It became The Royal Gelatin Hour in 1936.
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19325 episodes
- Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson (July 7, 1932)
Rudy Vallee hosts Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson in their comedy act billed as “The Padded Cell Of The Air.” Rudy’s opening song is “’Til I Awake,” and the duo’s gags lead into “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal, You.” - Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson (July 14, 1932)
Olsen and Johnson come back for a second visit, joking about Roosevelt and Mickey Mouse and demonstrating radio sound effects. Rudy opens with “Who Do You Love?” and plays the sax solo “Saxophun,” and Uncle Punchfiddle gives his version of Red Riding Hood. - Madge Kennedy, Otto Kruger, Lee Wiley, Willie Howard, Eugene Howard) (incomplete
Broadcast from NBC’s Times Square studios, with music from “Ballyhoo Of 1932” and Rudy’s opening song “We’re Off To Slumberland.” Otto Kruger and Madge Kennedy perform a scene from Noel Coward’s “Private Lives.” - Sylvia Field, Raymond Hackett, Clara Barry, Orval Whitledge, Queena Marino, The London Singers, Jon Gart) (incomplete
From NBC’s Times Square studio, Rudy opens with “A Little Kiss Each Morning.” The vaudeville pair Barry and Whitledge perform, and Raymond Hackett and Sylvia Field act a scene from Maxwell Anderson’s “Saturday’s Children.” - Bert Lahr, Margaret Sullavan, Gertrude Niesen, Poldi Milsner, Val Stanton, Ernie Stanton) (incomplete
Rudy sings “Night and Day,” “A White House Of Our Own” and “The Alphabet Of Love Begins and Ends With U,” and compares “Night and Day” with “Love For Sale.” Poldi Milsner plays a Chopin etude, Gertrude Niesen does star impressions, and Margaret Sullavan stars in “Coquette.”
193322 episodes
- Eugenie Leontivich, Moffat Johnson, Lyda Roberti, Ray Bolger, Barbara Blair, Willie Howard, Eugene Howard, Lois Bennett, Earl Spicer
Lyda Roberti performs her hit “I’ve Got A Cousin In Milwaukee,” Moffat Johnson and Eugenie Leontovich act a scene from “Twentieth Century,” and the dance team of Barbara Blair and Ray Bolger redoes its vaudeville routine. Rudy opens with “Why Can’t This Night Go On Forever?” - Nelson Clifford, Marie Marion, May Usher, Jay C. Flippen, Ronald Peters, Everett Marshall
Rudy opens with “A Little Kiss Each Morning.” Nelson Clifford and Marie Marion do a vaudeville act, May Usher sings “Sammy Goldberg’s Wedding,” Jay C. Flippen sings “My Blue Heaven,” and Jane Cowl plays the balcony scene from “Romeo and Juliet.” - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Conway Terle, Lou Holtz
Rudy opens with “Across The Daisy Fields.” Conway Tearle stars in a scene from “Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” and Rudy sings melodies from “The Tales Of Hoffman” alongside Fifi Sherman and Lois Bennett. - The Valiant
The show opens with “The Maine Stein Song” and features vaudevillians Harold Whelan and Harry Jans, Bert Lytell in a scene from “The Valiant,” and Lita Grey Chaplin in the original musical “Subway Blues.” Pianist Pauline Alpert plays “Here Lies Love.” - Once in a Lifetime
Broadcast from NBC’s Times Square studios, opening with “An Orchid To You,” dedicated to Walter Winchell. Hugh O’Connell and Jean Dixon, members of the original Broadway cast, perform an episode of “Once In A Lifetime.” - The Count of Monte Cristo - Robert Loraine
Rudy opens with “No More, No Less” and sings “The Farmer’s Daughter’s Wedding Day.” George Dewey Washington sings “Home To Harlem,” William A. Brady Sr. stars in the melodrama “Monte Cristo,” and Sophie Tucker introduces Rudy herself before singing “Hotcha Jones.” - For Services Rendered
Rudy opens with “Who Do Love?” Solly Gould, as “Lieutenant Alexis,” talks about life among the Eskimos, Fay Bainter performs a scene from “For Services Rendered” before the play’s Broadway opening, and Alice Faye sings “Shuffle Off To Buffalo.” Joe Cook spins two nonsense tales. - Margaret Sullavan, Tom Powers, Walter O'Keefe; The Funnyboners, Eustace J. MacTavish, Sid Silvers
Rudy sings “Isn’t It Heavenly” and “Remember Me.” Tom Powers joins Margaret Sullavan for a scene from “There’s Always Juliet,” and Alice Faye sings “Old Man Harlem” and “I’m Young and Healthy.” - Bob Hope, Leo Carillo, Polly Moran, Rudy Wiedoeft, Bennie Krueger, Katherine Perry
Bob Hope does a stand-up spot in a fur coat, with Jimmy Wallington as his straight man. Rudy Wiedoeft, Rudy Vallee and Bennie Krueger play a sax trio on “Mighty Lak A Rose,” Leo Carrillo recites, and Polly Moran does a Hollywood monologue. - Ethel Barrymore, Walter O'Keefe, George Huston, Ann Barrett, The Notre Dame Choir & Glee Club
A music hall revue made for radio, with songs from “The Vagabond King” and Ethel Barrymore in J. M. Barrie’s “The Twelve Pound Look.” The Notre Dame Choir and Glee Club take part, and Rudy opens with “I May Be Dancing With Somebody Else, But I Keep Thinking Of You.” - Death Takes a Holiday - Bert Lytell, Gilda Grey
Guest Bert Lytell introduces the other guests this time. Professor Phineas A. Sylvester gives a talk about fish, the Hertz Brothers perform a saxophone and accordion duet, vaudevillians Eugene and Willie Howard do a routine, and a scene from “Death Takes A Holiday” is performed. - Paul Robeson, Aline Berry
Rudy opens with “My Evening Song.” Ann Butler trades jokes with Jimmy Wallington as her straight man, Mitzi Green does impressions of Bert Lahr, Ed Wynn and others and sings “Strike Up The Band,” and Aline Berry and Peter Dixon perform “Help Wanted.” - Walter O'Keefe, Jenny Moskowitz, Kate McComb, Charles Halden, Louis Sorin, Toscha Seidel, Joseph Wallman, Marion Harris, Cliff Burwell
The show starts with a message for the National Recovery Administration, then Rudy sings “I Gotcha Where I Wantcha.” Jenny Moskowitz performs “The Baby Carriage,” Marion Harris sings, and Walter O’Keefe sings his version of “The Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze.” - Autumn Crocus
Rudy opens with “I’m Just A Vagabond Lover.” Bobby Gilbert plays a violin that seems to talk, Nora Lehman sings “Seven Years With The Wrong Man,” Rudy croons “Learn To Croon” with a Bing Crosby impression, and Dorothy Gish stars in “Autumn Crocus.” - The Little Minister
Helen Hayes stars in “The Little Minister,” and Joe Penner returns with his duck gags for a third visit. Rudy opens with “Three Wishes,” and the duo Topps and Louis sing “I Ain’t Got Nobody” and scat “The St. Louis Blues.” - Ep204 Fay Bainter Buster Keaton
Rudy sings “Blue Monday” and “The Old Ox Road.” Buster Keaton sings the novelty “I Agree,” Fay Bainter performs a scene from “The White Crystal,” Mary Small sings “Louisville Lady,” and the team Moran and Mack get laughs with a routine. - Green Pastures - Alice Faye, George Gershwin
Rudy begins his fifth year with “Overture 1929,” a medley of his early hits. Alice Faye sings “You’ve Got Everything,” the Hall Johnson Choir joins a “Green Pastures” scene, and George Gershwin drops in to praise Rudy. - Berkeley Square
Rudy opens with “If I Love Again.” Heywood Hale Broun moderates a debate featuring New York Mayor John P. O’Brien and candidate Fiorello La Guardia, and Margalo Gilmore and Conrad Nagel perform a scene from “Berkeley Square.” - Jean Dixon, George Gershwin, Alice Faye, Kitty Carlisle, Homer Barton, Harold Vermilyea, The Gearsoff Sisters, The International Quartet
Rudy opens with “My Dancing Lady.” George Gershwin plays his “Concerto In F,” Alice Faye sings “Sittin’ Up, Waitin’ For You,” and Kitty Carlisle performs alongside the Gearsoff Sisters. Jean Dixon stars in a dramatization of Ring Lardner’s “The Love Nest.” - Margaret Sullavan, Tonio Selwart, Tom Howard, Monty Collins, Harry Peterson, Parker Stuart, Alice Faye, Louis Jean Hite, George Shelton, Michael (last name not give-24
Rudy opens with “Summer Is Over.” The comedy team of Collins and Peterson debut on network radio, Tonio Selwart and Margaret Sullavan perform a sketch from “Strictly Dishonorable,” and Tom Howard jokes about factory jobs. - Design for Living
Rudy opens with “My Last Year’s Girl.” Alice Faye sings “You’re Gonna Lose Your Gal,” Lean and Mayfield trade comedy, Ernst Lubitsch is interviewed by Adela Rogers St. John, and Miriam Hopkins and Gary Cooper perform a scene from “Design For Living.” - James Cagney, June Knight, Frank Nelson; Joseph Franz; Ferdinand Schumann-Heink; Florence Desmond; Chic Sale, Harry Jackson & His Orchestra
The first show of the series to come from Hollywood. James Cagney stars in the one-act play “Private Jones,” Chic Sale performs “Where Was Elmer?”, Florence Desmond does star impressions, and Rudy sings “You’re My Thrill.”
193415 episodes
- Gloria Swanson, Tom Powers, Ann Codee, Frank Orth, Alan Cross, Henry Dunn
Gloria Swanson’s radio debut brings two scenes from “Let Us Be Gay” with Tom Powers, plus her song “Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere.” The Radio Aces sing “Carioca,” and the band plays “The Connecticut Yankee Stomp.” - Margaret Sullavan, Tom Powers, Willie Howard, Eugene Howard, Alan Cross, Henry Dunn, Olin Dutra, Leland Campbell, Eddie Green, Dick Campbell, The Do Re Mi Trio
Rudy sings “Baby, Take A Bow,” “On The Mountainside” and “Rolling Home.” Margaret Sullavan, Porter Hall and Harold Vermilyea perform “Coquette,” Cross and Dunn do a vaudeville act, and Willie and Eugene Howard bring their dialect routine. - Richard Barthelmess; Helen Kane; Ruth Easton; Alan Cross, Henry Dunn, Tom Howard, George Shelton; The Stewart Sisters
Rudy sings “Dancing and Dreaming,” “I’m Satisfied” and “Mad Dogs and Englishmen.” Helen Kane sings “I Want To Be Loved By You” and other numbers, Richard Barthelmess acts in “Spring Song,” and the cast stages a musical satire of Kane’s real lawsuit over the “Boop” style. - Dorothy Stone, Harry Lash, Celia Villa, Charles Stewart, Izi Koikhi, Gene Forrell, Borah Minevich & His Harmonica Rascals, Mickey Bloom, Walter Scharf
Broadcast from the Variety Theatre at Radio City. Rudy opens with “I’ll Close My Eyes To Everyone Else If You’ll Open Your Heart To Me.” Harry Lash and Charlie Stewart perform as comedians, and Celia Villa, daughter of Pancho Villa, takes an interview and sings “La Cucaracha.” - Cornelia Otis Skinner, Robert Armstrong, Milton Berle, Ferdinand Himmelreich, The Saxon Sisters
Rudy opens with “Being Fooled Again.” Robert Armstrong and Lila Lee perform “Birds Of A Feather,” a story of blackmail with a blonde and a detective. Milton Berle gives a talk on “Clean Entertainment,” and Cornelia Otis Skinner does “Nurse’s Day Out.” - Ernest Truex, Jane Truex, Jimmy Truex, Lillian Carmen, Alan Cross, Henry Dunn, Cliff Berwell, Lou Holtz, Walter Scharf, Florence Baker, The Stewart Siste
Rudy opens with “Dames.” Lillian Carmen sings “You’re Sensational,” Lou Holtz tells his Maharajah story, and Rudy plays sax on “Sax-O-Phun.” Cross and Dunn sing “Where Are The Stars Of Yesterday?” and Ernest Truex plays Casper Milquetoast. - Crossed Roads
Rudy opens with “Fun To Be Fooled.” Chic Sale is a country filling-station clerk in “Crossed Roads,” with Elsie Mae Gordon and Roy James. Lou Holtz, Jeanne Aubert and Rudy perform a French-language skit about Napoleon and Josephine. - Grace Moore, Lou Holtz, Ilka Chase, Ruth Easton, Al Llewellyn, Brad Browne
Rudy opens with “So It’s Love.” Brad Browne teams with Al Llewellyn, one of radio’s first comedy duos, for a novelty song, Ruth Easton and Ilka Chase perform Molnar’s “The Witch,” and Grace Moore sings “One Night Of Love.” - Wynne Gibson, Virginia Sale, Blossom Seeley, Benny Fields, Lou Holtz, Homer Barton, Harold Vermilyea
Rudy opens with “Learning.” Wynne Gibson acts in Ring Lardner’s “The Love Nest,” Virginia Sale plays every part in “Promenade Deck,” Benny Fields and Blossom Seeley perform, and Lou Holtz plays “Chief Itsy Bitsy.” - James Cagney, Charles Irwin, Lou Holtz; Benny Baker, Carmel Meyers, Ynez Seabury, Maurice Black) (incomplete
Rudy sings “Some Other Girl In Some Other Port” and “Me and Henry VIII.” Charles Irwin gives his take on “Bonnie Annie Laurie,” Carmel Meyers performs a sung monologue to “Let’s Fall In Love,” and James Cagney stars in “Four Walls,” set in New York’s slums. - Barbara Stanwyck, Wini Shaw, Frank Fay, Donald Stewart, Lou Holtz, Benny Baker, Gale Gordon, The Stewart Sisters) (100th Anniversary Of Charles Louis Fleischmann's Birth
Rudy sings “Let’s Give Three Cheers For Love,” “An Ear Full Of Music” and “Love Is For The Two Of Us,” and the show marks 100 years since Charles Louis Fleischmann’s birth. Winifred Shaw sings, and Barbara Stanwyck acts in an untitled Christmas Eve play. - Warren William, Helen Morgan, Eddie Holden, Reginald Sharland, Georgie Stoll
Rudy sings “Happiness Ahead” and “P.S. I Love You.” Warren William stars in “Clear All Wires,” Helen Morgan sings “Winter Overnight” and “I Don’t Want Love,” Georgie Stoll plays fiddle, and Reginald Sharland and Eddie Holden play “Frank Watanabe and The Honorable Archie.” - Henry Fonda, June Walker, Cole Porter, William S. Hart, Buck & Bubbles, Beatrice Lillie, Ralph Riggs
Buck and Bubbles perform a routine and “Nagasaki,” Henry Fonda and June Walker act in “The Farmer Takes A Wife,” Cole Porter sings “You’re The Top,” William S. Hart recites “Pinto Ben,” and Beatrice Lillie sings “River Stay ’Way From My Door.” - Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Val Stanton, Ernie Stanton, Lewis & Doty, The Norsemen, The Stewart Sisters, The English Singers
Rudy opens with “I Get A Kick Out Of You.” The vaudeville pair Lewis and Doty sing “Hello, Hello, Hello,” and Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon play a skit that jumps ahead to 1954. - Cornelia Otis Skinner, Benny Fields, Blossom Seeley, Tom Howard, George Shelton, Cliff Burrell, The Stewart Sisters
Rudy opens with an arrangement of “Blue Moon,” and the band plays “You’ll Love Me Someday, So Why Not Now?” Blossom Seeley and Benny Fields sing American songs through the decades.
193520 episodes
- Phillip Merivale, Harry Green, George Stone, Stanley Ridges, Edward Trevor, Harold Gould, Harold Elliot, Juano Hernandez & His Cotton Club Choir, The Norsemen, The Stewart S
Rudy opens with “If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You.” George Stone plays Grand Duke Alexis, an excerpt from “Valley Forge” is performed by Harold Elliot, and Harry Green is heard along with Juano Hernandez and his choir, who sing “Voodoo.” - Walter Connolly, Anetta Harrigan, Johnny Burke, Libby Holman, A. J. Herbert, Lester Lonigan, The Yacht Club Boys)-2
Rudy opens with “Sweet Music.” Johnny Burke does his monologue “Drafted,” Libby Holman performs two numbers including “Moanin’ Low,” and Walter Connolly and Anetta Harrigan perform “Napoleon’s Barber.” - Edmund Gwenn, Freddy Bartholomew, F. Chase Taylor, Budd Hulick, Tom Howard, George Shelton, Tom Terriss, Reynolds Dennison, The Stewart Sisters
The show opens and closes with an arrangement of “Lullaby Of Broadway.” Stoopnagle and Budd describe a new invention, a wig that stands up on end. Edmund Gwenn performs a scene from “Laburnum Grove,” and Freddie Bartholomew explains how he landed the lead in “David Copperfield.” - Ethel Barrymore, Kitty Carlisle, Tom Howard, George Shelton, Tom Terriss, Reginald Carrington, Horace Braham, Red Stanley, Harry Flemmer, Bretagne Windass
Rudy opens with an arrangement of “Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart.” Ethel Barrymore performs a scene from Sheridan’s “The School For Scandal,” Kitty Carlisle sings “It’s June In January,” and Tom Terriss tells a story about a mummy case from Egypt and its curse. - Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Tom Howard, George Shelton, Robert Wildhack, The Duncan Sisters, The Stewart Sisters
Rudy opens with “According To The Moonlight.” Merle Oberon, in her first radio appearance, and Leslie Howard perform the rhymed play “A Minuet,” the Duncan Sisters and Stewart Sisters sing, and Howard and Shelton do “The Holdup.” - Olga Baclanova, Eddie Dowling, Tom Howard, George Shelton, The Stewart Sisters, Sam Byrd
Rudy opens with “I Love You, I Love You, I Love You.” Sam Byrd recites Stephen Vincent Benet’s “Mountain Whippoorwill,” and Eddie Dowling gets a New Deal billing as a comic. Olga Baclanova and Howard and Shelton also appear. - Dennis King, Victor Moore, Ruth Easton, Barry McCallum, Neil Curley, Jonathan Hole, Charles Cromer, Reginald Carrington, Tom Howard, The Stewart Sisters
Rudy opens with “Put On An Old Pair Of Shoes.” Dennis King plays the Irish patriot in “Robert Emmet,” Monroe Silver does a “Cohen On The Telephone” routine, Victor Moore recites “The Brook,” and Howard and Shelton do “The Pest.” - Pierre Fresnay, Tom Howard, George Shelton, Earl 'Fatha' Hines, Kathlyn Perry, Jimmy Kemper, The Goode Sisters (Millie & Dolly), The Stewart Sisters
Rudy opens with “Smooth Sailing.” Pierre Fresnay and the cast of Broadway’s “Noah” perform a scene, Kathlyn Perry sings “Body and Soul,” and Jimmy Kemper sings “The Song Of The Riveter.” - Claude Rains, Ella Logan, Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, John Peel, Francis Abella, Tom Howard, George Shelton, Barry McCallum, Jack Rosely, The Stewart Sisters)-15
Rudy opens with “So Is Love.” A performing parrot does impressions of Cantor, Crosby and Durante and whistles “In A Little Spanish Town.” Claude Rains stars in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” and the Duncan Sisters do a bit of “Topsy and Eva.” - Ep295 Spring Song
Rudy sings “Footloose and Fancy Free,” “The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked Away” and “Tell Me That You Love Me Tonight.” Bob Burns describes his path into movies and radio and plays “St Louis Blues” on the bazooka. Ruth Easton and Lyle Talbot act in “Spring Song,” and Buddy Baer sings. - Leslie Howard, Leslie Ruth Howard, Joe Louis, Sigmund Spaeth, Dee Loretta, Henry Armetta, Vicki Chase, The Stewart Sisters
The show opens with the instrumental rhumba “Marachas.” Dee Loretta and Henry Armetta perform a comedy sketch, Leslie Howard and his daughter perform a scene from “Dear Brutus,” Sigmund Spaeth analyzes “Lullaby Of Broadway,” and Rudy interviews Joe Louis. - Clive Brook, Anna May Wong, Bob Burns, Tom Howard, George Shelton, The Stewart Sisters
Rudy sings “Ooh, What A Little Moonlight Can Do” and “I Couldn’t Believe My Eyes.” Bob Burns imitates Rudy on his bazooka, Clive Brook acts in “The Jest Of Hahalaba,” and Anna May Wong performs songs in three languages: English, Italian and Chinese. - Gladys George, Roy Smeck, Joe Smith, Charles Dale, Otto Hewlett, Florence Robinson, Adam Carroll, Tom Howard, George Shelton, The Stewart Sisters
A Latin instrumental opens the show, and Rudy sings “Moonlight and Magnolias.” Florence Robinson, Gladys George and Otto Hewlett perform “The Third Angle,” Roy Smeck plays steel guitar on “Little Grass Shack,” and the Stewart Sisters sing “Rhythm Is Our Business.” - Laurette Taylor, Nina Mae McKinney, Deems Taylor, Charles Romano, Tom Howard, George Shelton; The Stewart Sisters, The Robert Armbruster Symphonic Singers)-2
Rudy opens with “What A Little Moonlight Can Do.” Laurette Taylor and Charles Romano perform a scene from “Peg O’ My Heart,” Deems Taylor gives a humorous talk about the orchestra’s instruments, and the band plays a medley from “Anything Goes.” - Gladys Cooper, Phillip Merryvale, Vincente Escudero, Josef Lhevinne, Stepin Fetchit, Lucien Boyer) (6th Anniversary Show
The program’s sixth anniversary broadcast. It opens with “The Rudy Vallee Musical Biography,” with music by Ferde Grofe, and Gladys Cooper and Phillip Merivale perform a scene about Mary, Queen of Scots and the Earl of Bothwell. - Mary Boland, Josephine Baker, Will Aubrey, Eddie Garr, Joseph Curtin, Ruth Eastland, Ben Lackland, William Warren Redfern
Rudy opens with “The Most Beautiful Girl In The World.” Josephine Baker sings “Time Was” after a decade in Paris, Mary Boland and Joseph Curtin perform “Three Cornered Moon,” and Rudy interviews the show’s engineer. - Miriam Hopkins, Horace Braham, Robert Wildhack, Eddie Stanley, Doris Westa, Brother Albert
Rudy opens with “Thanks A Million,” and Miriam Hopkins performs a scene from “The Lake.” Horace Braham, Robert Wildhack and Brother Albert are also among the guests. - Colin Clive, Willie Howard, Eugene Howard, James Hilton, Lew Lehr, Leo G. Carroll, Evelyn Case, Herbert Kingsley, The Stewart Sisters
Broadcast at 8:00 P.M. Rudy opens with “Life Begins At Sweet Sixteen.” Kingsley and Case perform “Frankie and Johnny,” Lew Lehr tells “Little Red Riding Pants,” Rudy interviews author James Hilton, and Leo G. Carroll and Colin Clive act in “The Other Place.” - Burgess Meredith, Margo, William McNair, Ella Logan, Mike Farley, Ed Farley, John Sublett, Ford Lee Washington, Maude Washington, The Onyx Club Swing Band
A medley from “Roberta” opens the show, and Rudy sings “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” among other songs. Buck and Bubbles sing “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” Margo and Burgess Meredith perform a scene from “Winterset,” and Pittsburgh’s Mayor McNair jokes and plays violin. - Una Merkel, Conrad Nagel, Edward Bowes, Walter King, Joe Cook, Sigmund Romberg, Walter Wolf King, Vera Van, Leo G. Carroll
Rudy opens with “Life Begins At Sweet Sixteen.” Major Bowes takes the amateur-hour interview questions himself, Sigmund Romberg conducts music from “May Wine,” and Conrad Nagel and Una Merkel perform “The Church Mouse.”
19368 episodes
- Paul Lukas, Peggy Conklin, George Givot, Frank Fay, The Continentals (Octet), The Stewart Sisters
Rudy opens with “In Rhythm With My Heart.” Peggy Conklin and Paul Lukas perform “The Pursuit Of Happiness,” and Frank Fay and George Givot are among the guests. - Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Keller, Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Hilliard, June Walker, Frank Fay
A medley including “I’m Putting All My Eggs In One Basket” opens the show. Harriet Hilliard and Ozzie Nelson sing “Am I Going To Have Trouble With You?”, Rudy interviews Helen Keller, and June Walker and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. perform A. A. Milne’s “The Artist.” - Ruth Chatterton, Joe Cook, Eileen Barton, Eddie Green, Ernest Whitman, Frank Wilson, Gigi James, The Stewart Sisters
Rudy opens with “Together.” Eileen Barton, age nine, sings, Ruth Chatterton performs the monodrama “The Beloved Boy,” Eddie Green tells a King Arthur story, and Joe Cook talks about his raccoon hatchery. - Eddie Cantor, Hank Ladd, Helen Lind, Eunice Stoddard, Frank Braselle, Stella Adler, Alexander Kirkland, Morris Carnovsky, Roman Bonin, Stuff Smith & His Orchestra, The Thr
Rudy opens with “Would You?” Stuff Smith’s orchestra plays, Hank Ladd and Helen Lind do a skit, the Group Theatre performs Clifford Odets’ “Awake and Sing,” and Eddie Cantor sings “Let Them Keep It Over There.” - Cornelia Otis Skinner, Vincent Price, Midge Williams, Joe Cook, Bill Corum) (pitch corrected version
Rudy opens with “S’posin.” Bill Corum previews the Louis-Schmeling fight, and Cornelia Otis Skinner replaces Margaret Sullavan in a scene from “There’s Always Juliet.” Midge Williams sings “Dinah” in Japanese, and Joe Cook talks golf. - Harry Irvine, Bert Lahr, Alan Cross, Henry Dunn, Jefferson Machamer, Midge Williams, Elliott Daniels, Judy Faragan
Rudy opens with “Is It True What They Say About Dixie?” Cross and Dunn perform a novelty medley, Harry Irvine tells how he landed the lead in “Murder In The Cathedral,” Midge Williams scats “It Don’t Mean A Thing,” and Bert Lahr goes to the dentist. - Belief - Ricardo Cortez, Luise Rainer
Rudy opens with “The Way You Look Tonight.” In her radio debut, Luise Rainer performs a scene from “The Great Ziegfeld,” Ricardo Cortez stars in “Belief,” set during the Spanish Civil War, and ventriloquist Frank Gaby also debuts. - Leslie Howard, Beatrice Lillie, Sheila Barrett, Robert Wildhack, Carl Hubbell, Francesca Bruni
Rudy sings “Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart.” Robert Wildhack demonstrates different yawns, Sheila Barrett does “You’re Not The Type” about a casting office, Leslie Howard performs “The Miraculous Visitor,” and Beatrice Lillie performs a monologue.