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The Halls Of Ivy Radio Show MP3 CD
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series,
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The Halls of Ivy
is an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1950-1952. It was created by
Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn before being
adapted into a CBS television comedy (1954-55) produced by ITC
Entertainment and Television Programs of America. British
husband-and-wife actors Ronald Colman (1891-1958) and Benita Hume
(1906-1967) starred in both versions of the show.
Quinn developed
the show after he had decided to leave Fibber McGee & Molly in the
hands of his protégé Phil Leslie. The Halls of Ivy's audition
program featured radio veteran Gale Gordon (then co-starring in Our
Miss Brooks) and Edna Best in the roles that ultimately went to the
Coleman’s, who'd shown a flair for radio comedy in recurring roles
on The Jack Benny Program in the late 1940s.
The Halls of Ivy
featured Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small,
Midwestern Ivy College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British
musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former
profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends,
and college trustees. Others in the cast included Herbert
Butterfield as testy board chairman Clarence Wellman; Willard
Waterman (then starring as Harold Peary's successor as The Great
Gildersleeve) as board member John Merriweather; and Bea Benadaret,
Elizabeth Patterson, and Gloria Gordon as the Halls' maids. Alan
Reed (television's Fred Flintstone) appeared periodically as the
stuffy English teacher, Professor Heaslip.
The series ran
109 half-hour radio episodes from January 6, 1950, to June 25, 1952,
with Quinn, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee writing many of the
scripts and giving free if even more sophisticated play to Quinn's
knack for language play, inverted clichés and swift puns (including
the show's title and lead characters), a knack he'd shown for years
writing Fibber McGee & Molly. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee
continued as a writing team; their best-known play is Inherit the
Wind. Cameron Blake, Walter Brown Newman, Robert Sinclair, and
Milton and Barbara Merlin became writers for the program as well.
In subject
matter, the program was often notably ahead of its time, forward
looking, and willing to tackle controversial topics.
The sponsor was
the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company ("The Beer That Made Milwaukee
Famous"). Nat Wolff produced and directed, Henry Russell handled the
music (and co-wrote the theme with Vick Knight), and radio veteran
Ken Carpenter was the announcer.
So sit back and
enjoy over 37 hours and 76 plus episodes of radio programming that
was ahead of its time, forward looking, and willing to tackle
controversial topics, and get some good laughs at the same time.
Your CD contains the following great shows.
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