Rosalind Russell on the Air

Volume Five of this 9-CD set features both parts 1 and 2 of Up from Darkness, originally broadcast as a two-part story on Silver Theater on October 23rd and 30th of 1938. Miss Russell starred as Micki Gargon and Jimmy Stewart plays Tim Barlow. Conrad Nagel was the master-of-ceremonies and John Conte was the announcer…

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Radio Legends Screen Directors’ Playhouse

This 10-CD set was issued by Radio Archives (RA128). The set features ten shows, all originally broadcast in the first half of 1951. The Stewart show is Next Time We Love which was broadcast March 29th of that year. Also in the set are Spellbound (Joseph Cotton), Dark Victory (Tallulah Bankhead), A Foreign Affair (Lucille…

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Academy Awards Show – March 26, 1958

By 1958, most of the advertising for the Annual Academy Awards Show was going to the TV broadcast. But, some newspapers like the New York Times also listed the radio broadcast. The show was broadcast from the RKO Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, CA. Stewart was one of six co-hosts from the show. He appeared first and…

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Silver Theater – Up From Darkness

One year after their first appearance together on Silver Theater in First Love, Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell were back again as the stars of Up From Darkness. This two-part story was broadcast on October 23 and 30, 1938. Here are a few newspaper previews which appeared on the first broadcast date. The first is…

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Silver Theater – First Love

When the Silver Theater premiered on radio on October 3, 1937, it was with the first of a four part show starring Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell. The sponsor, 1847 Rogers Brothers Silverware, opened the show with much publicity in the newspapers, including ads like the one below from the Sunday Journal and Star, Lincoln,…

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