For the third and final time, Stewart recreated his role of George Bailey in a Screen Guild production of It’s a Wonderful Life. The first two times had come on December 29, 1947 and December 29, 1949. The following display ad for the program is from the Detroit Free Press, Detroit, MI, on the day…
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Screen Guild Show – Tailored by Toni
Tailored by Toni, a story by Connie Lee, was presented on The Gulf Screen Guild Show on March 12, 1939. It starred Jimmy Stewart as Peter Graham, Carole Lombard as Toni Warren, Spring Byington as Toni’s mother and Edward Everett Horton as Kenneth Pickles. George Murphy was the show’s master of ceremonies. This preview of…
Screen Guild Theater – Single Crossing
Jimmy Stewart was not scheduled to appear on The Gulf Screen Guild Theater broadcast of February 11, 1940. Instead William Powell was to be the male lead opposite Myrna Loy in Single Crossing. But, when Powell came down with a case of the flu, Jimmy Stewart volunteered to step in for him. Apparently Clark Gable…
Vivacious Lady – Screen Guild Theater
All of Stewart’s appearances on the Screen Guild Theater are well documented in Jimmy Stewart on the Air. In this blog, we’ll be updating his December 3, 1945, starring role in Vivacious Lady. In the 1938 film, Jimmy’s leading lady was Ginger Rogers. According to many newspaper listings for the program, including the one below…
Camel Screen Guild Theater – Call Northside 777
The film Call Northside 777 had opened in the U.S. in February of 1948. Eight months later, on October 7th, it was being presented as a half-hour radio play on the Camel Screen Guild Theater. Jimmy Stewart had played P.J. McNeal in the film and reprised his role for radio. Likewise, Richard Conte played his…
Screen Guild Theater – The Shop Around the Corner
Seventy-five years ago today, on September 29, 1940, the third season of The Gulf Screen Guild Theater began with Jimmy Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and Frank Morgan starring in The Shop Around the Corner. The same three actors had starred in the film which had been released in January of 1940. The radio adaptation was written…
The Best Years of Our Lives 1940
Here we have a relatively new item from England. The CD was released in 2012 and is widely available on the internet. Sounds of Yesteryear DSOY909 The final track on the CD is the one that would be of interest to Stewart Fans. It is a copy of his appearance in The Philadelphia Story as…
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