Jimmy Stewart made his third of six appearances on U.S. Steel’s Theatre Guild on the Air on September 26, 1948, in the play That’s Gratitude. According to the contract, Stewart was to be paid $2500 for his appearance: Many of the newspaper previews for the program featured Stewart’s photo. The first one is from the…
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1941 – As It Was: World War II on American Radio
This is an 8-CD set released by Radiorevisited.com. Disc 7 in the set features We Hold These Truths, which was originally broadcast December 14, 1941, to mark the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights. Jimmy Stewart starred in the production along with Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan, Bob Burns, Walter…
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I Speak for Democracy (1948)
In Jimmy Stewart on the Air, we listed an unidentified radio show called Radio Week. The source for this listing came from the Wisconsin State Journal dated November 14, 1948: Further research has identified this as another instance of I Speak for Democracy, which had originally aired in October-November, 1947. This is confirmed by an…
National Air Races
On Labor Day, September 6, 1937, the National Air Races were held in Cleveland, Ohio. As can be seen in the following New York Times listing, the start and finish of the race were broadcast. No references to Stewart being a part of this broadcast have been discovered. However, the following article appeared in Stewart’s…
Fresh Air
On March 21, 2016, this popular NPR program spotlighted the book, Hollywood Hoofbeats The Fascinating Story of Horses in Movies and Television, by Petrine Day Mitchum (Perseus Distribution). The show was hosted by Terry Gross, with Dave Davies conducting the interview of Mitchum. One of the last horses talked about in the interview was Pie,…
Buy Bonds From Jimmy Stewart
As outlined in Jimmy Stewart on the Air, Mr. Stewart appeared on program #23 of the U.S. Treasury Department’s public service program, Guest Star. Win Elliot was the show’s host; Mary Small is vocalist and Denes Agay the orchestra leader. At the time the book was published, the date of the program was in question…
Dancing with the Stars with Jimmy Stewart – The 30’s
This was a two hour radio special put together by the Mutual Broadcasting System and Westwood One. Jimmy Stewart was the host and took the listeners on an imaginary tour of Hollywood’s top night spots of the 1930’s. It was delivered to stations on four 12-inch, 33 1/3 RPM discs. Except for the side numbers,…
Radio’s Greatest Comedies
At least two different Radio’s Greatest Comedies sets were issued by Great American Audio. One was an 8-cassette set housed in a cardboard box open on one side. Below are scans of the bottom and sides of the box. The other was a 4-cassette set which came in a small wooden crate: Stewart was a…
The Tim Sample Collection Volume Two, Live on Stage 1992-1999
This 3-CD set was issued in 2009 by The Maine Humor Company. As the jacket states, Sample is a humorist and the three CD’s are filled with his comedy routines. But, every now and again, he breaks into song. One of those is called The Jimmy Stewart Song and according to the jacket notes, it…
