The Moon’s Our Home (Cassette)

The Lux Radio Theatre version of The Moon’s Our Home, starring Jimmy Stewart, Carole Lombard, Verna Felton and Hans Conried, was issued on cassette by Radio Showcase (D-299). The show had originally been broadcast on February 10, 1941. You can read more about and listen to that broadcast here…

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Victory Theatre – The Philadelphia Story

In 1942, The Office of War Information’s Office of Facts and Figures went to the broadcast networks to pitch the idea of their supplying blocks of airtime for getting war messages out the their listeners. The CBS answer to this plea was Victory Theatre. It aired just eight episodes, each one an extra performance of…

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Lux Radio Theatre – The Moon’s Our Home

Stewart’s second appearance on the Lux Radio Theatre took place on Monday, February 10, 1941. He and Carole Lombard starred in The Moon’s Our Home. Verna Felton, as Boyce, and Hans Conried, as Horace, are other voices you will hear. As Stewart was under contract to MGM at the time, a special contract was needed…

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Lux Radio Theatre – Made for Each Other

In 1939, Stewart and Carole Lombard had starred in the film version of Made for Each Other. On December 17, 1945, Jimmy recreated his role of John Mason for this Lux Radio Theatre presented. Marsha Hunt co-starred as Jane Mason. The CBS program was produced and hosted by William Keighley, with Fredric MacKaye as its…

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