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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2015 : Issue 95
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  They've done it [removed]            [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Walden's List                         [ Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed]; ]

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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:07:36 -0500
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  They've done it [removed]

I have long contended that current obits of show-biz personalities in
national media venues are composed by writers who never heard of the Golden
Age of Radio. So their compilations on these entertainers, at their death,
detail to the smallest detail their appearances on TV, in movies, and usually
the stage. But all of their radio work is totally ignored.

Today's case in point:  The Washington Post obit on Betsy Drake (1923-2015),
former wife of Cary Grant, takes up literally two-thirds of an entire page,
including a 7 X 8 inch photo of that famous couple. The obit writer, Adam
Bernstein, covers in a micro-examination, nearly every movie they were in
(individually or as a couple), discusses her stage and writing careers, their
experiments with LSDF, as well as his on-again, off-again affairs, including
one with Sophia Loren.

Alas, there is not one word in the obit about the network radio series Grant
and Drake starred in, playing a married couple in NBC's 1951 comedy, "Mr. and
Mrs. Blandings." This half hour series ran on Sunday nights from January to
July 1951; Gale Gordon was the main supporting character. (Grant and Drake
had played those same roles a year earlier on network radio, doing a
half-hour show on NBC's "Screen Director's Playhouse" on June 6, 1950, also
based on the motion picture.)

As most of us know, the radio series was derived from the 1948 RKO movie,
"Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House",  in which Grant starred.  Myrna Loy
played his wife and Melvin Douglas had the chief supporting role. The film,
in turn, was based upon the writings of Eric Hodgins, who reformatted his
series of magazines articles into a novel of that same name.

Jack French
Editor:  RADIO RECALL
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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:12:19 -0500
From: Gregg Oppenheimer <gopp@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Walden's List

I don't know but would like to locate contact info for any of them.
. . .
Jill Oppenheim of Red Ryder

Jill Oppenheim of Red Ryder went on to co-star with Stuffy Singer and Richard
Beymer in Hollywood's first regularly-scheduled TV series "Sandy Dreams."
Then she changed her last name to "St. John," became a Bond girl, and is now
living happily with Robert Wagner.

- Gregg Oppenheimer

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