It is still amazing to us that after more than 10 years of almost constant research, new radio shows continue to turn up. Recently we came across this listing in the Quad-City Times, Davenport, IA. It was dated February 18, 1951, so we searched other newspapers printed on that date. The Louella Parsons Show was…
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Dick Powell Early Radio Broadcasts
This is a 12-CD set issued by RadioRevisited.com. The earliest show included is the December 18, 1936, Hollywood Hotel on which Jimmy Stewart was a guest. Stewart’s appearance was very short, lasting just about five-seconds as he answers a question posed by Louella Parsons. Click on the link below to go to the original blog…
Hollywood Hotel – December 18, 1936
Hollywood Hotel was broadcast by CBS on Fridays from 10-11 p.m. Dick Powell was the master of ceremonies and Louella Parsons was the hostess. George MacGarret was the show’s director, Ken Murray the announcer and Raymond Paige the orchestra leader. It was sponsored by Campbell Soups. On this show, Sonja Henie was the main guest,…
Louella Parsons (February 6, 1949)
Louella Parsons was the writer of a Hollywood gossip column for the Hearst chain, with her work appearing in more than 400 newspapers. She also hosted several different radio shows in the 1940’s and 50’s. Jimmy Stewart is known to have appeared on her program several times. One of those times was February 6, 1949…
Hollywood Hotel – January 17, 1936
This program remains unavailable, but we can add a few details which were not included in Jimmy Stewart on the Air. Most of the newspaper ads for the program mentioned only Dick Powell, the show’s host, and Margaret Sullavan, the main guest for the evening. However, a few did offer some additional information, including the…
Hollywood Hotel
On November 13, 1936, seventy-nine years ago, Jimmy Stewart made one of his first radio appearances on the very popular show, Hollywood Hotel. The CBS program was hosted by Dick Powell and sponsored by Campbell Soup. The one hour show was broadcast from Hollywood and featured Louella Parsons talking with the stars. Because the shows…
New Interview with Louella Parsons
In October of 2013, a routine Jimmy Stewart search of Ebay turned up the following record: The listing carried no information other than what could be seen on the label. We bid and won the recording and when it arrived, we listened and found it to be Louella Parsons interviewing Stewart on her radio program…
