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Program 87 - Lowell Thomas, Jack Benny, Ann Elstner
Lowell Thomas Jack Benny
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Program 87 - Lowell Thomas, Jack Benny, Ann Elstner
Lowell Thomas Jack Benny
| Lowell
Thomas, Jack
Benny, Ann Elstner (This program was never on the air at WTIC
-
it is reconstructed based on interviews
conducted by Dick
Bertel and Ed Corcoran) -----
Lowell
Thomas was a man ahead of his time: the first roving newscaster, a film
maker through the 1920s, a radio presenter in the 1930s, an adventurer
who wrote more than 50 books, he was heralded as the father of
'Cinerama.' Born in 1892, Lowell Thomas started out as a reporter for the Chicago Evening Journal. He had a flair for making ordinary stories exciting. -----
Jack Benny
was among the
most beloved American entertainers of the 20th
century. He brought a relationship-oriented, humorously vain persona
honed in vaudeville, radio, and film to television in 1950, starring in
his own television series from that year until 1965. The comedian grew
up in Waukegan and went on the vaudeville stage in his early teens
playing the violin. The instrument quickly turned into a mere prop, and
his lack of musicianship became one of the staples of his act. Benny's
first major success was on the radio. He starred in a regular radio
program from 1932 to 1955; Benny's radio program spent most of its run
on NBC. In 1948 he was lured to CBS, where he stayed through the
remainder of his radio career and most of his television years. -----
Based
on the
novels by Olive Higgins Prouty (1882-1974) ,
Stella Dallas was a
working-class heroine that was suddenly rich after marrying Stephen
Dallas; her strong love for her daughter Laurel is the primary theme of
the series. Stella hung out on NBC until 1955 with Anne
Elstner
in the title role for the entire run. "Stella Dallas" was “A
continuation on the air of the true-life story of mother love and
sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own beloved daughter, Laurel, marry
into wealth and society, and realizing the difference in their tastes
and worlds, went out of Laurel’s life.” |
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