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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2010 : Issue 13
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: A Christmas Carol                 [ Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@sbcglo ]
  [removed] Bart Andrews                   [ Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed]; ]

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:13:09 -0500
From: Don Shenbarger <donslistmail@[removed];
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Subject:  Re: A Christmas Carol

On 1/21/2010 Craig W wrote:

And, can those who've heard  it tell me: does it seem to be a
stand-alone radio production, or one of
those  early examples of using a film's soundtrack, as MGM did elsewhere?

Oddly, Barrymore does make an appearance on that show, which
makes  me wonder how ill he was.

For years, his illness has been used as the excuse why he didn't do
his own RADIO turn as Scrooge that year

Barrymore broke his leg tripping over an electrical cord on the set
of "Saratoga".

"With only six weeks left to shoot "A Christmas Carol" (1938), M-G-M
reluctantly moved forward with production. At the urging of Barrymore
himself, Reginald Owen was tapped to play Scrooge in the movie AND on
Barrymore's annual radio show."

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This suggests the radio show was not a film soundtrack. It also
suggests Barrymore's removal from the film project had little to do
with arthritis that plagued him from about that same time except that
the accident could have been related to his difficulty walking.

Don

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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:14:01 -0500
From: Derek Tague <thatderek@[removed];
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Subject:  [removed] Bart Andrews

"The Los Angeles Times" has a nice obituary for pop culture historian Bart
Andrews, who died, aged 64,  on December 26th of a heart attack:

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Andrews wrote four books about his lifelong passion, "I Love Lucy," the first
being "Lucy & Ricky & Fred & Ethel" in the 1970s. The title was an obvious
spin on the film title "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" and was updated and
reissued in the 1980s as "The 'I Love Lucy' Book." As far as I know, this was
one of the first books totally dedicated to a particular televison programme
and served as a template for the many tomes that followed, especially when it
came to providing detailed episode guides and cast listings. Andrews's "Lucy"
canon is worth seeking out despite the fact that he only gives neglible
tribute to "My Favorite Husband," the radio forerunner of

Although I didn't know Mr. Andrews personally, I did correspond with him
circa 1987 around the time he wrote "Holy Mackerel!" the first "modern" book
concerning  "Amos 'n' Andy." Unfortunately, it's not very good and
concentrates mostly on the TV, rather tham the radio, version (needless to
say the AnA narratives by Melvin Patrick Ely and this list's own Elizabeth
McLeod have far surpassed Bart Andrews's).

Yours in the ether,

Derek Tague

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