OWRA 1944-01-26 (1) Guest – Groucho Marx
The first Radio Almanac broadcast features Groucho Marx in a fast-moving mixture of topical jokes, political satire, guest comedy, music and sponsor material. Welles and Groucho trade absurd proposals and…
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The first Radio Almanac broadcast features Groucho Marx in a fast-moving mixture of topical jokes, political satire, guest comedy, music and sponsor material. Welles and Groucho trade absurd proposals and…
An Orson Welles Radio Almanac broadcast featuring Lionel Barrymore. Welles and Barrymore mix self-deprecating comedy, a comic inheritance sketch and musical interludes, including a Victor Herbert remembrance. The program closes…
A Radio Almanac variety broadcast featuring Ann Sothern, with Orson Welles mixing topical comedy, romantic and domestic sketches, music and sponsor material. The program moves through jokes about radio romance…
An Orson Welles Radio Almanac variety broadcast built around Robert Benchley's dry comic persona. Welles and Benchley trade jokes and mock-serious observations, including an extended comic lecture about Eskimos, alongside…
An Orson Welles Radio Almanac variety broadcast featuring columnist Hedda Hopper, whose sharp comic sparring with Welles centers on his acting, romantic image and radio career. The show also includes…
A Radio Almanac variety broadcast featuring Victor Moore, built from topical jokes, guest comedy, music and sponsor material. Moore's visit becomes a running comic story about housing, appointments and learning…
A Radio Almanac episode featuring Lucille Ball, built from topical jokes, celebrity banter, a comic romantic-detective sketch, music and literary material. After the lighter segments, Welles closes with John Donne's…
A Radio Almanac variety show featuring Charles Laughton, combining topical jokes, comic biographical material, music, sponsor segments and dramatic performance. Much of the broadcast plays with Laughton's public image through…
An Orson Welles Radio Almanac variety show featuring Betty Hutton. The broadcast combines comedy, audience banter and Hutton's energetic musical performance, including 'The Rocking Horse Ran Away,' then shifts into…
A Radio Almanac variety broadcast featuring Mary Boland, combining Orson Welles' comedy and magic-style opening, jazz from the program's all-star band, sponsor material, and a substantial dramatic excerpt from Cyrano…
A Radio Almanac variety program featuring Dennis Day, with topical comedy, guest banter, music, sponsor material and a running backstage story about performance and show business. Welles works through household…
An Easter-themed Ceiling Unlimited broadcast centered on a mother whose wounded son David is stranded in New Guinea. Through a dreamlike dramatic thread, she follows the medics, air crews and…
A Radio Almanac variety show featuring Monty Woolley, with comedy about radio studios, an intentionally absurd spoof biography of Woolley, music, sponsor material and literary or devotional readings. The episode…
An AFRS Mercury Wonder Show broadcast from the Naval Air Station at Terminal Island featuring Lucille Ball. Welles and Ball trade military-camp comedy and perform a prolonged audition-and-kissing gag with…
A Mercury variety broadcast built around a political satire imagining Ann Sothern in national office. The comedy ranges across campaign ideas, currency, the White House, government agencies, taxes and other…
A Mercury Wonder Show broadcast from the Air Service Command Training Center at Fresno, featuring the Wilde twins and Lois Collier. Welles mixes magic-show comedy, military-base jokes, guest banter, music…
A Mercury Wonder Show broadcast from an Air Transport Command base in Long Beach featuring Marjorie Reynolds. The service-camp variety format includes military comedy, music and a parody of Donovan's…
A special D-Day Mercury broadcast presented instead of the regular show, framed as a California aircraft worker writing to her unborn child about June 6 and 7, 1944. The program…
A Mercury broadcast from Texarkana supporting the Fifth War Loan drive, mixing local and military comedy, music and wartime appeals. A central satire imagines Texas and Arkansas as rival dictatorships…
A wartime Mercury variety broadcast from Chicago's Wrigley Building, mixing home-front and sponsor material with comedy about Chicago life and the Quiz Kids, music, and dramatic performance. The program closes…
A Mercury Wonder Show from Camp Haan near Riverside, California, combining service-camp comedy, WAC and soldier sketches, music, audience material and sponsor messages. The show moves from joking about military…
A Mercury Wonder Show broadcast from the Los Angeles Port of Embarkation at Wilmington, California, featuring Lana Turner. Welles mixes military-camp comedy, a fantasy sketch in which a serviceman alone…
An Orson Welles Radio Almanac camp broadcast featuring Susan Hayward, with military-camp comedy, guest banter, domestic sketches and music before Welles closes with a dramatic Shakespeare performance from Richard II.…
A Mercury Wonder Show broadcast from the Coast Guard station at Long Beach with guest Ruth Terry. The hour mixes Coast Guard and service comedy, Welles's banter with Terry, songs…
After the Civil War, former Union soldier and schoolteacher Henry Bowen wanders into a community still divided by hatred between former Yankees and Confederates. He falls in love with Lissie…
The fiends of Hell decide that Christmas must be destroyed and draw lots to choose an assassin, sending Nero to the North Pole to kill Santa Claus. Nero arrives armed…
During an ordinary shopping trip, Walter Mitty repeatedly escapes his timid everyday life through elaborate heroic fantasies. Mundane errands and his wife's instructions turn in his imagination into adventures in…
Young farmer Harold Peavy tries to make a success of a failing ranch while caring for Mabel, a cow whose remarkable speed gives him an improbable idea. When the county…
Marlow accepts command of a company steamer and travels deep into the African interior to find Kurtz, an ivory agent whose shipments have suddenly stopped. Along the way he encounters…
Hollywood secretary Miss Dilly has spent years writing rejected screen stories when a book she publishes suddenly becomes a bestseller and rival studios begin bidding for the movie rights. Tired…
The jealous Queen orders Snow White killed after the magic mirror declares the girl more beautiful, but the huntsman spares her and she finds refuge with seven dwarfs in the…
John Unger visits the impossibly wealthy Washington family and discovers that their fortune comes from a mountain-sized diamond whose existence must be kept secret at any cost. Guests who learn…
Brothers James and Henry Durie are divided by the Jacobite rising, with James joining the rebels and being reported dead while Henry remains home, inherits the estate and marries the…
A special This Is My Best broadcast presented days after Franklin D. Roosevelt's death and written around the approaching United Nations conference in San Francisco. Instead of a conventional story,…
A dramatized adaptation of George and Helen Papashvily's immigrant memoir follows George from Georgia to the United States as he searches for work, meets other immigrants and Americans, and travels…
A bachelor theater man agrees to send a little girl named Patsy back to her children's home, but she refuses to reveal the address and quickly makes strangers believe he…
Liz Cugat believes her husband George has forgotten their tenth wedding anniversary when he eagerly attends a party for his glamorous former sweetheart Myra Ponsonby. Myra openly reminisces about their…
Phileas Fogg wagers that he can travel around the world in eighty days and immediately sets out, pursued by a detective who wrongly believes he committed a bank robbery. Along…
Edmond Dantes is betrayed by Danglars and Mondego and imprisoned after innocently carrying a letter connected to Napoleon. A fellow prisoner teaches him, reveals the location of a hidden treasure,…
Ronald Adams drives west from New York and repeatedly sees the same silent hitchhiker impossibly appearing ahead of him no matter how far or fast he travels. Fear turns to…
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