Podcasts about Betty Hutton

Look, do you really need an explanation for this one? Songs with whispering, songs that whisper, songs that softly sing sweet nothings in your ear. This is one eclectic list and that's partially thanks to this week's special guest, The Old Whispering Boy Himself, Ryan Blake. Picks 10-6 are featured in Top Ten Songs That Whisper, Part 1.Dig on Ryan's album Silence In The Traffic wherever you get streaming music.https://open.spotify.com/artist/5DMMz3Z5KVxAqf172PiipE?si=QLMdS3SpSXCHzSlxV1yQxwRyan's son Jasper has his own YouTube channel!https://www.youtube.com/@PixelshadowstudiosWe've lowered our prices, but not our standards over at the ATTT Patreon! Those who are kindly contributing $2 a month are receiving an exclusive monthly Emergency Pod episode featuring our favorite guests and utilizing our patent-pending improv format in which we miraculously pull a playlist out of thin air. Look for Volume 16 coming June 1st featuring our friends Dustin Prince and Candi Bartlett! Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/c/alltimetoptenWe're having a blast chatting it up about music over on the ATTT Facebook Group. Join us and start a conversation!https://www.facebook.com/groups/940749894391295

Jaume Segalés y su equipo hablan de cine clásico y de la zarzuela solidaria en el Auditorio Nacional. Hoy en Km0, tras repasar la actualidad informativa y deportiva, profundizamos en los siguientes asuntos: Zarzuela solidaria en el Auditorio La Fundación Padre Arrupe nos brinda la posibilidad de disfrutar de lo mejor de la zarzuela este domingo, 18 de mayo. El concierto tendrá lugar en la Sala Sinfónica del Auditorio Nacional de Música (c/ Príncipe de Vergara, 146) a las 12:00. La mejor música por una buena causa. Una selección de piezas de las mejores zarzuelas, ideal para asistir con familia y amigos. Obras de Tomás Bretón, Federico Chueca, Ruperto Chapí, Vives y Barbieri, entre otros, interpretadas (bajo la magistral dirección de Silvia Sanz) por la Orquesta Metropolitana de Madrid, el Coro Talía y el Coro Talía Mini. Pasajes emblemáticos del género chico a los que pondrán voz los tenores Miguel Borrallo y Napoleón Domínguez y la soprano María Zapata. Además, también participaran once bailarinas de la Compañía Sara Martín de Danza Española y Flamenco. Un concierto inolvidable donde la música se une a una causa solidaria: llevar educación de calidad a niñas y niños en riesgo de exclusión social en El Salvador. Entrevistamos a la directora general de la Fundación Padre Arrupe, Aurora de Rato Salazar-Simpson. Entradas disponibles en puntos de venta de El Corte Inglés y en la web: https://www.fundacionpadrearrupe.com/zarzuela-en-concierto Sección de cine clásico "Es sesión continua" Antolín de la Torre hoy nos habla sobre El mayor espectáculo del mundo (The Greatest Show on Earth). Drama estadounidense de 1952 sobre el mundo del circo rodada en el Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. El filme fue dirigido, producido y narrado por Cecil B. DeMille. Ganó el Óscar a mejor película en el año 1953. La protagonizan Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde y Dorothy Lamour, entre otros.

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ELLEN DREW: CLASSIC CINEMA STAR OF THE MONTH (069) Whether playing the sweet girl next door or the world-weary casino boss's moll, ELLEN DREW was an incredibly versatile leading lady who was a major star in the 1940s and 50s. She made a career of playing a wide range of roles in various genres — from Westerns to comedies to dramas to horror movies. She was nicknamed “The Candy Store Cinderella” because she was discovered scooping ice cream in a candy store on Hollywood Boulevard. And who do you think discovered her? You'll be quite surprised to find out. In this week's episode, we discuss our Star of the Month, ELLEN DREW.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960, (2014), by Laurence Raw; "Ellen Drew — The Private Life of Ellen Drew,” glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com; “Hollywood's Forgotten Daughters,” January 1986, by Anthony Cassa, Hollywood Studio Magazine; “Ellen Drew - Cinderellen,” January 2002, by Jeff Gordon, Classic Images magazine; “Ellen Drew, 89, Film and TV Actress Rose Through Ranks in Hollywood,” December 6, 2003, Los Angeles Times; TCM.com; IMDBPro.com; IBDB.com; Wikipedia.com; RogerEbert.com; Movies Mentioned:  Christmas in July  (1940), starring Dick Powell & Ellen Drew; Johnny O'Clock (1947), starring Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Thomas Gomez, & Ellen Drew; Hollywood Boulevard (1936), starring Marsha Hunt & Robert Cummings; The Big Broadcast of 1937 (1936), starring Jack Benny, George Burns, & Gracie Allen; Make Way For Tomorrow (1937), staring Victor Moore & Beulah Bondi; Gone With The Wind (1939), starring Vivien Leigh & Clark Gable; Sing, You Sinners (1938), starring Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, & Ellen Drew; If I Were King (1938), starring Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, & Ellen Drew; The Lady's From Kentucky (1939), staring George Raft & Ellen Drew; Geronimo (1939), starring Preston Foster; The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939), starring Gracie Allen; French Without Tears (1940), starring Ray Milland & Ellen Drew; Buck Benny Rides Again (1940), starring Jack Benny; The Mad Doctor (1941), starring Basil Rathbone; The Monster and the Girl (1941), starring Paul Lukas & Philip Terry; Isle of the Dead (1945), starring Boris Karloff; Our Wife (1941), starring Melvyn Douglas, Ruth Hussey, & Ellen Drew; The Night of January 16th (1941), starring Preston Foster; Reaching For The Sun (1941), starring Joel McCrea & Ellen Drew; The Remarkable Andrew (1942), starring William Holden, Brian Donlevy, & Ellen Drew; My Favorite Spy (1942), starring Kay Kyser & Jane Wyman; Night Plane to Chungking (1942), starring Preston Foster & Ellen Drew; And The Angels Sing (1944), starring Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, & Betty Hutton; Strange Confession (1944), starring Jean Gabin; That's My Baby (1944), starring Richard Arlen & Ellen Drew; Dark Mountain (1944), starring Robert Lowery & Ellen Drew; China Sky (1945), starring Randolph Scott; The Swordsmen (1948), starring Larry Parks & Ellen Drew; The Man from Colorado (1949), starring William Holden & Glenn Ford; The Crocked Way (1949), starring John Payne, Sonny Tufts, & Ellen Drew; Stars In My Crown (1950), staring Joel McCrea & Ellen Drew; Cargo to Capetown (1950), starring Broderick Crawford & John Ireland; The Great Missouri Raid (1950), starring Wendell Corey; Man In The Saddle (1951), staring Randolph Scott & Joan Leslie; --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here Come the Waves (1944) Bing Crosby, Betty Hutton, Yvonne De Carlo⁠ https://archive.org/download/01-bing-crosby/Here%20Come%20the%20Waves%20%281944%29%20Bing%20Crosby%2C%20Betty%20Hutton%2C%20Yvonne%20De%20Carlo.mp4 Support us on Patreon⁠https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4279967⁠Jack Benny TV Videocast⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/6BDar4CsgVEyUloEQ8sWpw?si=89123269fe144a10⁠Jack Benny Show OTR Podcast!⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3UZ6NSEL7RPxOXUoQ4NiDP?si=987ab6e776a7468c⁠Judy Garland and Friends OTR Podcast⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/5ZKJYkgHOIjQzZWCt1a1NN?si=538b47b50852483d⁠Strange New Worlds Of Dimension X-1 Podcast⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/6hFMGUvEdaYqPBoxy00sOk?si=a37cc300a8e247a1⁠Buck Benny YouTube Channel⁠https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrOoc1Q5bllBgQA469XNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Ny/RV=2/RE=1707891281/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2f%40BuckBenny/RK=2/RS=nVp4LDJhOmL70bh7eeCi6DPNdW4-⁠Support us on Patreon⁠https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4279967

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In this episode, we discuss the life of actress Betty Hutton.

Ian Brownell and Otto Bruno join Mike for a discussion of Preston Sturges and his 1944 film The Miracle of Morgan's Creek which stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a woman who really helps support the troops going off to World War Two. When she finds herself married to an unknown soldier and pregnant in her small town, she eyes 4F local Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken).Author Stuart Klawans talks about his outstanding book, Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges , before the guys also visit Sturges's Hail the Conquering Hero (1944).Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

Ian Brownell and Otto Bruno join Mike for a discussion of Preston Sturges and his 1944 film The Miracle of Morgan's Creek which stars Betty Hutton as Trudy Kockenlocker, a woman who really helps support the troops going off to World War Two. When she finds herself married to an unknown soldier and pregnant in her small town, she eyes 4F local Norval Jones (Eddie Bracken).Author Stuart Klawans talks about his outstanding book, Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges , before the guys also visit Sturges's Hail the Conquering Hero (1944).Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-podcast--5513239/support.

Announcer Don Wilson introduces host for this Command Performance show broadcast by the AFRS 8/25/42. Guests include Betty Hutton, Dorothy Lamour, Reggie Gardner, Benny Goodman and Orch, Mean Widdle Kid (See photo)... guests have been requested by troops overseas during WW II...Everything was volunteered to support morale of our troops. Track stored in "Command Performance" Playlist

Songs include: Wild Horses, His Rocking Horse Ran Away, Black Horse Blues, Empty Saddles, Riders In the Sky, Horses Don't Bet On People and The Ride of the Valkeries.  Performers include: Betty Hutton, Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Kay Kyser and Perry Como. 

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EPISODE 27 - “Dona Drake: What Price Fame” - 03/18/2024 Latina star DONA DRAKE, who signed a contract with Paramount Pictures in 1941, was many things — singer, dancer, actress, bandleader, musician — but one thing she wasn't, as it turned out, was Latin! While Paramount promoted their new discovery as a spitfire Latina born in Mexico City, Drake was, in fact, an African-American woman from Florida who pretended to be Latin, going so far as to learn Spanish fluently, in order to have a better chance at a Hollywood career. Listen to this fascinating story of one woman who went undercover just so she wouldn't have to play the maid.  SHOW NOTES:  Sources: Biography of Dona Drake (Paramount Contact Player), September 1942, Paramount Studios; “Dona Drake Tells Marriage,” September 9, 1944, by Hedda Hopper, The Los Angeles Times; “Daughter Born to Dona Drake,” August 8, 1951, The Hollywood Citizen-News; www.swingcityradio,com; www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com; IMDBPro.com; Wikipedia.com; Movies Mentioned:  Strike Me Pink (1936), starring Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers, and William Frawley; Aloma Of The South Seas (1941), starring Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall; Louisiana Purchase (1941), starring Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, and Victor Moore; Road to Morocco (1942), starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour; Star Spangled Rhythm (1942), starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, Dick Powell, Eddie Bracken, Alan Ladd, Mary Martin, Betty Hutton, Marjorie Reynolds, and Veronica Lake; Salute For Three (1943), starring Macdonald Carey and Betty Jane Rhodes; Let's Face It (1943), staring Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, and Eve Arden;  Hot Rhythm (1944), starring Robert Lowery, Tim Ryan, and Irene Ryan; Without Reservations (1946), starring John Wayne, Claudette Colbert, and Don DeFoe; Dangerous Millions (1946), starring Kent Taylor; Another Part of The Forest (1948), starring Fredric March, Dan Duryea, Edmond O'Brien, Ann Blyth, Florence Eldridge, John Dall, and Betsy Blair; So This Is New York (1948), starring Henry Morgan, Rudy Vallee, and Virginia Grey; Beyond The Forest (1949), starring Bette Davis, Joseph Cotten, David Brian, Ruth Roman; The Girl From Jones Beach (1949), starring Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, and Eddie Bracken; Kansas City Confidential (1952), starring John Payne, Colleen Gray, and Preston Foster; The Bandits of Corsica (1953), starring Richard Greene, Paula Raymond, Raymond Burr; Son Of Belle Star (1953), starring Keith Larsen, Peggie Castle, and Regis Toomey; Down Laredo Way (1953) starring Rex Allen and Slim Pickens; Princess of the Nile (1954), starring Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, and Michael Rennie; --------------------------------- http://www.airwavemedia.com Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

«Sí, buenas noches, dígame». Con esta frase Carlos Pumares atendía a todos sus oyentes en su programa "Polvo de Estrellas". Le preguntaban sobre películas y él contestaba como quería de manera escueta, se enfadaba o tiraba de John Ford o Howard Hawks. Pumares falleció este pasado 12 de octubre de 2023 a los 80 años. Poca gente sabe de cine clásico, música y teatro como él. Era único. Con este programa le quiero rendir homenaje a una de las personas que más me ha influenciado con el cine y la música. Este este programa podrás escuchar algunos de los temas que se escuchaba en su programa y que más me han marcado. DEP Carlos. Si quieres dejar un comentario sobre él te invito a que lo hagas. Espero que disfrutes de la proyección... Listado de temas – Carlos Pumares y Polvo de Estrellas In Memoriam 1. Bing Crosby – Star Dust 2. Nino Rota – Amarcord – Amarcord 3. Joel Grey – Wilkommen – Cabaret 4. Verdi – Preludio – La Traviata 5. Elmer Bernstein – Main title and Calvera – Los 7 magníficos 28:33 6. Petula Clark – Dowtown 7. Dooley Wilson – As time goes bye – Casablanca 8. Stanley Myers – Cavatina – El Cazador 9. Michael Crawford – The music of the night – El Fantasma de la ópera 01:03:50 10. Barbra Streisand – Send in the clowns 11. Mozart - Piano Concerto No.21 In C K467 - Ii. Andante 12. Louis Armstrong - We Have All the Time in the World – 007 al Servicio de Su Majestad 13. Bedrich Smetana - Vitava (La Moldova) 14. Cast - The Time Warp – The Rocky Horror Picture Show 01:32:31 15. Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern & Keenan Wynn - There's No Business Like Show Business – La Reina del Oeste 16. Richard Harris & Cast – Camelot – Camelot 17. Max Steiner – The Searchers – Centauros del Desierto 18. Claude Francois - Comme D'habitude 19. Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers - Cheek to Cheek – Sombrero de Copa 02:03:07 20. Leonard Bernstein – María – West Side Story 21. Jonathan Pryce – The American Dream – Miss Saigon 22. Zero Mostel & Cast - Comedy Tonight – Golfus de Roma 23. Mike Oldfield – The Bell – Tubullar Bells II 24. Luis Eduardo Aute – Cine, Cine Despedida Vera Lynn - We ll Meet Again -Telefono Rojo ¿Volamos hacia Moscú? Bonus Track (02:33:26) Programa del Monolito PD: El anterior programa no se puede escuchar en Spotify, tendrás que hacerlo en alguna de las otras plataformas.

Judy Garland and Betty Hutton (Mindi)

A tribute to Tony Bennett who we lost today with Tallulah Bankhead, Tony Bennett, Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Phil Foster, June Havok, Betty Hutton, Vera Lynn, etc

A tribute to Tony Bennett who we lost today with Tallulah Bankhead, Tony Bennett, Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Phil Foster, June Havok, Betty Hutton, Vera Lynn, etc

In this episode I explore the life of Betty Hutton, who was born Elizabeth June Thornburg in 1921 in Battle Creek, Michigan. She went on to find success as a singer, and an actress of stage and screen. She performed in over 20 films during the golden age of musicals in Hollywood. Some of her most popular films were 'Annie Get Your Gun' 1950, 'The Greatest Show on Earth' 1952 and 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek' 1944. She grew up in poverty, with her father leaving her mother and sister when she was a young girl. She performed on stage for the first time at age 4 or 5, and then became a singer, and went onto a success career on stage and in films. Her portrait is featured at the History Education Center at the Battle Creek Regional History Museum. For a film bibliography of Betty Hutton, click here. For more information on Michael Delaware, visit: https://michaeldelaware.com

Songs include: Them There Eyes, Green Eyes, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, Teardrops From My Eyes, Dark Eyes and Why Do You Want to Make Those Eyes At Me For? Performers include: Vincent Lopez, Bob Crosby, Billie Holiday, Jimmy Dorsey, Betty Hutton, Patti Page, Bing Crosby and Artie Shaw.

On this episode I discuss The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944) starring Betty Hutton, Eddie Bracken, William Demarest, and Diana Lynn.Works Cited:Matthew Bernstein, "'The Edge of Unacceptability': Preston Sturges and the PCA," in ReFocus: The Films of Preston Sturges, ed. Jeff Jaeckle (Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2015), pp. 83-106.Diane Jacobs, Christmas in July: The Life and Art of Preston Sturges (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1992).Brian Kellow, Ethel Merman: A Life (New York: Penguin Books, 2008).Otto Friedrich, City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (New York: Harper Perennial, 2014).Michael Slowik, "On Deadline and Reviewed in Pieces: The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and the Production Code Administration," Film History, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 32-58.Preston Sturges, Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in his Words (New York: Touchstone, 1991). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 31: Here is the lineup: 1940s: Admiral Broadway Revue, 1950s: The Betty Hutton Show, 1960s: The Ant and The Aardvark, 1970s: Angie, 1980s: Booker, 1990s: Grown Ups, and 2000s: The Forgotten. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pete-kastanes0/message

For today's movie review:Betty Hutton stars with Eddie Bracken and William Demarest in a Preston Sturges comedy (one he both wrote and directed), it's The Miracle of Morgan's Creek! Adam and Andy conclude their year of Reel Shame 2022 with this wacky comedy from 1944!Check out The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)Show Notes:Viewer's Question:What are our favorite movies we reviewed this year?Comment/email your answers.Chapters:(~0:00:00) Introduction(~0:00:41) Featured Review(~0:22:43) Viewer's Question(~0:38:46) ClosingLike, comment, or subscribe if you'd want to see more episodes.Feel free to send us a question we can answer on the air to ReelShame@gmail.com or follow us on Instagram @ReelShame.

Hosted by Don Ameche. He takes a quick dip into the mailbag, then introduces the King Cole Trio who sing, Solid Potato Salad. Jack Douglas, comedian and singer takes over…

Actors who took a crack at singing. "Singers" include: Joan Crawford, Mel Blanc, Robert Mitchum, Betty Hutton, Fred Astaire, Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Dick Powell and Julie London.

Today on the Rarified Heir Podcast Encore Edition we are talking to Dr. Tara Candoli whose father/Musician Pete Candoli who also happened to be our host Josh Mills' step-father. Which also means, that Josh's mum was Tara's step-mother. Tara's mother, actress Vicky Lane is famous for her portrayal of The Ape Woman in the film, The Jungle Captive & who also had a recording career. As if this wasn't confusing enough, Tara's other step-mother was actress/singer Betty Hutton. Not enough of a showbiz connection? We talk about her grandfather Kemp Niver who won a special Oscar for the preservation of the earliest silent films, actor Tom Neal whose explosive temperament led to scandal & even murder and that's just the beginning. We talk about Tara's professional career as a trauma therapist, making mud pies with Rock Hudson as a toddler, hitting recording and taping sessions with her dad, her wild days as a teenager in seventies LA, iconic makeup men who worked on her mom's films and much more. It's all right here, right now, on the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story.

This week is the start (1 0f 4) of our Preston Sturges theme month. For week one we watched the 1944 movie The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. This is a kinetic film that we found to be thoroughly entertaining throughout. 

Poet, translator and cultural commentator Anthony Esolen joins James and Thomas to discuss one of his favorite filmmakers in the genre of "screwball comedy", Preston Sturges. Sturges wrote and directed eight films between 1940 and 1945, seven of which are regarded as classics. This episode focuses on two of those films: Sullivan's Travels (1941) and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944). Sullivan's Travels is about a director of cheap comedies who decides to go on the road as a hobo so he can make a film of true social significance, making a fool of himself in the process. It displays Sturges's ability to write and direct dialogue that is fast, sharp and snappy, but never flippant or glib. Sturges is virtuosic in navigating dark material with a light touch, and able to switch seamlessly between pathos and humor, ending up in a place of warmth and graciousness without sappy sentimentality. This is also true of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. In an age in which even married pregnancy could not be depicted on film, Morgan's Creek pushed boundaries by depicting unwed pregnancy. It ends up being a very pro-life film as well as something of a time capsule, showing how a social stigma against unwed motherhood was not incompatible with compassion and support for such mothers and their babies. Like Sullivan's Travels, it has an outrageous, hilarious and utterly unpredictable ending. These films prompt a reflection from Esolen on how "The moral law makes mirth possible," and how the sexual revolution killed romance - two reasons great screwball comedies cannot not be made today. Other movies reccomended by Anthony Esolen: Penny Serenade, People Will Talk, and also The Lady Eve, Arsenic and Old Lace, Bringing Up Baby, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, You Can't Take It With You, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (TV series), “Walking Distance” (Twilight Zone episode) Other movies mentioned by Thomas Mirus: Hail the Conquering Hero, Unfaithfully Yours, The Awful Truth, It Happened One Night Links Joel McCrea discusses his faith https://www.guideposts.org/better-living/entertainment/movies-and-tv/guideposts-classics-joel-mccrea-on-gods-guidance Podcast about Betty Hutton's conversion to Catholicism https://americancatholichistory.org/betty-hutton/ Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts https://magdalen.edu/ Music is The Duskwhales, “Take It Back”, used with permission. https://theduskwhales.bandcamp.com This podcast is a production of CatholicCulture.org. If you like the show, please consider supporting us! http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio

Often written by the just-heard E. Jack Neuman, the fourth actor to voice Johnny Dollar, John Lund, grabbed the role in November of 1952. Lund had starred with Olivia De Havilland in To Each His Own, Marlene Dietrich in A Foreign Affair, and Betty Hutton in The Perils of Pauline. In spite of radio's falling ratings, in March of 1953, Wrigley's gum signed on to sponsor the show. On Tuesdays at 9PM, Dollar peaked in May with a 7.3 rating. Among the writers who contributed scripts along with E. Jack Neuman, were Les Crutchfield, Blake Edwards, Gil Doud, Morton Fine, and David Friedkin. On March 8th, 1954 Dollar's expense account took him to southeast Asia. Wrigley sponsored Dollar until August. Lund's last episode was “The Upjohn Matter,” on September 19th. It seemed that like many other radio shows, Johnny Dollar's time on the air was coming to an unremarkable end. However the show would be revived the following year. Bob Bailey would star and Jack Johnstone would direct. For more information on Bob Bailey's run as Johnny Dollar, tune into Breaking Walls episode 102.

WPMT's premiere of “Somebody Loves Me,” featuring the title song from George Gershwin, will be live today, just as it was on the Lux Radio Theatre, featuring songs by Gershwin, Buddy G. DeSylva, Jay Livingston, Ray Evans and more! We are pleased to kick off Women's History Month with this musical starring Betty Hutton as "Blossom Seeley" and Gene Barry as "Benny Fields.” Tune in today at 1 PM CT, on all major podcast platforms!

durée : 00:59:21 - Betty Hutton, de l'ombre à la lumière - par : Laurent Valière - Magnifique blonde à la voix puissante, Betty Hutton est surtout connue pour avoir remplacé au pied levé Judy Garland dans le film « Annie Get Your Gun ». Elle fut l'une des plus belles voix du musical hollywoodien. - réalisé par : Fabien Fleurat

Episode 205, “Music for Lovers,” presents 17 timeless love songs by Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, George Wein, Betty Hutton, Betty White, Ella Fitzgerald, and a dozen others.   45 RPM, Music of the 40s and... Read More The post Episode 205, “Music for Lovers,” appeared first on Sam Waldron.

The biggest names in Hollywood and Broadway recorded for AFRS during the war years, The American Forces Network can trace its origins back to May 26, 1942, when the War Department established the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS). The U.S. Army began broadcasting from London during World War II, using equipment and studio facilities borrowed from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The first transmission to U.S. troops began at 5:45 p.m. on July 4, 1943, and included less than five hours of recorded shows, a BBC news and sports broadcast. That day, Corporal Syl Binkin became the first U.S. Military broadcasters heard over the air. The signal was sent from London via telephone lines to five regional transmitters to reach U.S. troops in the United Kingdom as they prepared for the inevitable invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. Fearing competition for civilian audiences the BBC initially tried to impose restrictions on AFN broadcasts within Britain (transmissions were only allowed from American Bases outside London and were limited to 50 watts of transmission power) and a minimum quota of British produced programming had to be carried. Nevertheless AFN programmes were widely enjoyed by the British civilian listeners who could receive them and once AFN operations transferred to continental Europe (shortly after D-Day) AFN were able to broadcast with little restriction with programmes available to civilian audiences across most of Europe (including Britain) after dark. As D-Day approached, the network joined with the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to develop programs especially for the Allied Expeditionary Forces. Mobile stations, complete with personnel, broadcasting equipment, and a record library were deployed to broadcast music and news to troops in the field. The mobile stations reported on front line activities and fed the news reports back to studio locations in London. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Entertainment Radio Stations Live 24/7 Sherlock Holmes/CBS Radio Mystery Theater https://live365.com/station/Sherlock-Holmes-Classic-Radio--a91441 https://live365.com/station/CBS-Radio-Mystery-Theater-a57491 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

The biggest names in Hollywood and Broadway recorded for AFRS during the war years, The American Forces Network can trace its origins back to May 26, 1942, when the War Department established the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS). The U.S. Army began broadcasting from London during World War II, using equipment and studio facilities borrowed from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The first transmission to U.S. troops began at 5:45 p.m. on July 4, 1943, and included less than five hours of recorded shows, a BBC news and sports broadcast. That day, Corporal Syl Binkin became the first U.S. Military broadcasters heard over the air. The signal was sent from London via telephone lines to five regional transmitters to reach U.S. troops in the United Kingdom as they prepared for the inevitable invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe. Fearing competition for civilian audiences the BBC initially tried to impose restrictions on AFN broadcasts within Britain (transmissions were only allowed from American Bases outside London and were limited to 50 watts of transmission power) and a minimum quota of British produced programming had to be carried. Nevertheless AFN programmes were widely enjoyed by the British civilian listeners who could receive them and once AFN operations transferred to continental Europe (shortly after D-Day) AFN were able to broadcast with little restriction with programmes available to civilian audiences across most of Europe (including Britain) after dark. As D-Day approached, the network joined with the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to develop programs especially for the Allied Expeditionary Forces. Mobile stations, complete with personnel, broadcasting equipment, and a record library were deployed to broadcast music and news to troops in the field. The mobile stations reported on front line activities and fed the news reports back to studio locations in London.---------------------------------------------------------------------------Entertainment Radio Stations Live 24/7 Sherlock Holmes/CBS Radio Mystery Theaterhttps://live365.com/station/Sherlock-Holmes-Classic-Radio--a91441https://live365.com/station/CBS-Radio-Mystery-Theater-a57491----------------------------------------------------------------------------

We focus on the wonderful Tony Bennett on this weeks Big Show from 70 years ago this week!  Another one of the long lost episodes.  How delightful that Tony Bennett is still with us in 2022!

Shellac Stack No. 250 pitches up a boogie with the Nat King Cole Trio and plays Geography with Jan Savitt. We hear from the Mound City Blue Blowers, Billy Murray, Betty Hutton, Seger Ellis, Dolly Dawn, Fred Rich's Hotel Astor Orchestra, Ben Selvin, the Southern Jazz Group, and many more. Thank you for supporting the … Continue reading »

   Firmly gripping the hand of her five year old daughter Charlotte, Mary Ann Crabtree scanned the sea of men that crowded the docks, in San Francisco, looking for a familiar face. Her husband John, who had finally sent for them in New York,  was nowhere to be seen and Mary Ann was nearly a professional when it came to accepting anxieties. Queens of the Mines features the authentic stories of gold rush women who blossomed from the camouflaged, twisted roots of California. In this episode, we meet the Nation's Darling and The Golden West's Gift to Vaudeville, California's 19th Century Queen of Captivation. I am Andrea Anderson, This is a true story from America's Largest Migration, The Gold Rush. This is Queens of the Mines. John Crabtree had left his family and position as a bookseller in New York and left for California in the search for gold in 1851, two years prior. His wife and daughter dutifully waited for his call, and when it had finally come, she sold the bookshop off Broadway, and made the exhaustive journey here to the Isthmus of Panama, crossing by land before picking up a second ship to California. Now, John Crabtree was nowhere to be found. Charlotte remained secluded while her and her mother were given a temporary home with a group of popular actors of the 19th century, including the Chapmans, and the child actress Sue Robinson, whom Mary Ann had befriended. In the Presidio of San Francisco, Mrs. Crabtree kept up with the trends and all of the glamourous and disheartening stories from the rough mining camps. The gossip finally came and Mary Ann heard that John had been seen living in a little town in the Sierra.  People were becoming rich all around her, and she was raising Charlotte on her own. The wheels began to turn for Mary Ann. It was a brand new environment for the shrewd and thrifty woman, who was small in figure with an unshakeable will. Here, among the theatrical crowd and actors in San Francisco, a most tantalizing scene had presented itself. She zeroed in on the theatre gossip and dreamt up a career of stardom for her cheerful, animated daughter, Charlotte, or, like her mother called her, Lotta. Lotta had hair that was an even brighter red than Mary Ann's, and she was sturdy with roguish black eyes and an unquenchable laughter, yet she seemed far off from stage ready.   During a celebration at her school near the Presidio, it was requested that Lotta sang Annie Laurie for the crowd. She barely made it to the platform before the young girl, to her mother's dismay, lost control and broke down, sobbing. She wept so hard and for so long, Mary Ann had to take her daughter home. That night in bed, Mary Ann went over her daughter's chances of success singing and dancing at the mines.  The next morning, an optimistic letter vaguely mentioning a project involving gold, came from her husband John in the high Sierra's, from a town called Grass Valley. Although the letter had no mention of any progress, it was requested that Mrs. Crabtree and Lotta proceed to him at once. In California, anyone could make a dazzling fortune overnight. Mary Ann, battling skepticism and the prospect of a bonanza, packed their belongings.   At dawn, Lotta stood by the luggage as her mother procured a place for two in a rickety, yet affordable stagecoach. The young girl slept much of the journey, but she awoke as they rolled past embers of a few dying fires where men were waking up. They moved into a torch lit shadowy settlement and Lotta observed the intimidating shapes that danced across the scene, cast by the torches. She was excited to see her father, it had been over two years since she had last seen him. She wondered if she would recognize him as he went to hug her? There was no embrace, John patted Lotta's head and took them to a hotel where they all shared a small bed for the night.  That next morning, the family took a walk, admiring what the Sierra spring had to offer. Nestled in the rich green slopes, and fertile deep gullies they saw the promise of luck, as, towards the valley, melting snow fed the clearest streams they had ever seen.  Already, men were attending their claims in an air of conquest, working tirelessly digging tunnels, sinking shafts, bridging gorges, and piping water in flumes across the foothills. John told his family stories of men literally stumbling upon rich mines, pulling gold out of the earth with a knife, and how he once left a claim prior to the "big strike." But luck had not been with John Crabtree. With all the excitement around them, John Crabtree only offered Mary Ann disappointment. Passing by peddlers with sealing wax, baubles and trinkets, and luxurious fabrics, Lotta approached a cart that held paperbacks, and ran her finger down the spine of a Dickens novel. She noticed if a vendor was not prosperous enough to possess mules, they carried their goods strapped into a pack that was worn on the shoulders. As Lotta looked at the books, John asked his wife “Why not keep a boarding house? Everyone spends lavishly here, and rich merchants in town need homes! We could do no less than get rich”. Mary Ann was disappointed, she was not familiar in the kitchen. In New York, she worked in upholstery and had a servant who did the household work and cooked. Yet, she still agreed.  To Mary Ann's surprise, she did a fantastic job maintaining the boarding house and not to her surprise, John's participation quickly diminished as he wandered away to prospect, and Mary Ann continued her duties, and saved her money, in a pure atmosphere of rebellion.  Two doors down from the Crabtrees, that summer in 1853, a famous showgirl moved in. It was not long before the woman had transformed the home into a true salon that was constantly abrupting with singing and laughter. Lotta soon attracted the attention of the eccentric woman who had a pet parrot and a monkey! Typically, Mary Ann would always keep her daughter Lotta under her watchful eye. By doing so, Lotta's life had been incredibly innocent. Yet Mary Ann was entirely lenient while Lotta was in company with this new, exotic companion, whose name was Lola Montez.      The unlikely  pair of Lola Montez and Lotta Crabtree became fast friends. In the parlor of the Montez home, Lola gave Lotta daily dance lessons and it was apparent that Lotta had a better sense of rhythm than Lola. Lotta learned fandangos and intricate ballet steps. Lola taught her the jigs reels and the Irish flings from her own childhood. She gave the young child singing lessons, teaching her ballads and Lotta was allowed to play in Lola's trunk of stage costumes, and play Lola's German music box. Lotta fit right in as she mingled with the trolling players, entertainers and witty theatrical company visiting the star. Lola Montez had recognized genuine talent compared to her force of personality and encouraged Lotta's enthusiasm for the performance. They did not stop at the indoors, Lola also taught Lotta to ride horseback. On one sunny morning, the two went for a ride, Lola on a horse and Lotta on a pony. They ended up in the town of Rough and Ready, where huge fortunes were gambled away, recklessly. The street was lined by gaming houses and saloons with bullet-riddled ceilings. Lola and Lotta sauntered in to one.  Lola stood Lotta on a blacksmith's anvil, and they young child danced for the group of miners that sat at the bar. It was a refreshing change for the men, who considered the small child a hit. Irishmen made up a sizable fraction of the miners, Lotta's jigs had reminded them of home. They threw a more than generous amount of gold nuggets at her feet. Lola brought the gold home to Mary Ann and declared Lotta should go with her to Paris. The next morning, John reappeared. With the news that they were again moving, forty miles north of Grass Valley, to Rabbit Creek. Mary Ann was not happy, compared to the somewhat civilized, law-abiding Grass Valley, Rabbit Creek was a small but busy and violent camp where murders were as frequent as each pocket of gold was found and exploited. When the family arrived, John found the hardier characters had found the ground first, and he eventually found nothing. There was an intense drought that summer which affected the prospectors, who needed water for washing gold. John chose to spend his time drinking in the saloons and rambling away mysteriously on quote unquote prospecting missions. Without his support for months, Mary Ann's only option was to open another boarding house, which she did, that winter. That is when the italian Mart Taylor, a musician and dancer arrived in Rabbit Creek. He was tall and had a graceful figure, with long hair and piercing black eyes. He opened a saloon with a connecting makeshift theatre. When the business slowed in the saloon during the afternoons, Taylor conducted a dancing school for children.  His first prerequisite was music and he was impressed by the 8 year old red-haired girl. Her eyes would flash as her small feet traced the intricate steps he taught her. She looked six years old, and he knew she could be a sensation with the audiences who were eager for child performers. Taylor gave her a place to exhibit her talents before the miners. He played the guitar and hired a fiddler and Mrs. Crabtree played the triangle.  Lotta Crabtree had become a nightly attraction, dressed in a green tail-coat, knee breeches, tall hat and brogans her mother sewed. Lotta would often get stage fright, and it would show when she shoved her hands in her pockets. So Mary Ann, sewed them shut. She danced jig after jig only pausing to change costumes. At the finale, she would return to a storm of applause to then sing a ballad. Lotta Crabtree would shake the house with emotion. Gold nuggets shone at her feet.  She completed the repertoire for the company, and her family now had more money than ever. Naturally, Mrs. Crabtree became her daughter's manager. Few child stars had training, and Lotta, was trained by Lola Montez. She would be a gold mine.  Once the roads had reopened in the spring, Lola Montez rode over to Rabbit Creek to see her protege. Lola was to go on tour to Australia and wanted to bring little Lotta with her. Mary Ann saw a future for Lotta with Mart Taylor, who she had become fast friends with, and declined. Mary Ann then made the most of her refusal to Lola's request to take the child to Australia, this even furthered Lotta's growing reputation.   That summer, Mary Ann discovered that she was to have another child and Lotta's baby brother, John Ashworth, was born, just as John Sr. returned home. Lotta continued to work for Taylor while her mother recovered.  After years of performing in Rabbit Creek, the next move seemed obvious to Mary Ann, Lotta should tour the mines. On a late spring morning in 1856, Mary Ann left her husband John three loaves of fresh bread, a kettle of beans and a goodbye note. They left with Taylor's troupe, traveling by wagon, Lotta sat next to her mother with her baby brother in her arms.  As they toured in the California mining camps, Lotta started to make a name for herself as a dancer, singer, and banjo player in saloons. For an audience of men,  whom she had never seen before, on a makeshift stage set up on sawhorses with candles stuffed into bottles served as footlights arranged along the outer edge.  Mary Ann never had a moment to relax, traveling the dangerous higher Sierra by horseback, trees snapping and blocking their path, and boulders, rolling down mountain sides, after being loosened by mining operations. The 8 year old Lotta, watched as a lone rider, far ahead, plunged into the bottom of an abyss in front of her eyes. Once she lay ducked on the floor after one performance, in their room, as bullets burst through the canvas walls while a brawl from the opposite side of the hotel commenced. Yet Mary Ann remained cool, and kept Lotta in good spirits. Mary Ann would coax Lotta, telling her funny stories and persuading her for an hour or more and even when it was time for the stage, Mary Ann always had to give Lotta a little push to get her on the stage. Once onstage, Lotta would perfectly execute her Irish jig. At every performance's conclusion, Lotta would appear angelically. A face scrubbed clean, hair smoothly combed,  a white dress with puffed sleeves while Mary Ann, exhausted from costuming, coaching, and playing the triangle, collected the gold in a basket, scraping every fragment of dust from the boards.  Mary Ann Crabtree was her daughter's mentor. Using the knowledge she had picked up by observing the actors she met in the Presidio and at the home of Montez. She distrusted theatre folk at heart but would listen to every word, resisting its attraction. But if she mistrusted its people she did not mistrust the theatre itself.   As busy as Mary Ann was, she still found time to become pregnant again, with another younger brother for Lotta. Taylor's company was then forced to break up in Weaverville. Mart Taylor took Lotta's brother, Ashworth jr. to San Francisco and Lotta was sent to stay with the family of James Ryan Talbot, who was a pioneer, in Eureka. In the Talbot household in Eureka, Lotta thoroughly enjoyed life, and would go through her acts as in a game for the other children and would frolic and song the stage Irish song Barney Brallaghan," I've a howl in my heart big enough to roll a cabbage round in". Mary Ann's health had finally permitted her to go to Lotta in Eureka in the spring of 1856, where she gathered her and her belongings. Mary Ann, Lotta and her newest brother, George then caught a schooner to San Francisco.  In San Francisco, gamblers crowded the halls, natives rode on spirited horses through the streets, and silk lined carriages dashed around. The city had become legendarily violent. Charles Cora had just been hanged for the murder of the United States Marshal Richardson by the second Vigilance Committee, yet the days of lawlessness were not yet gone. The exuberant scene was exciting for Mary Ann, and Lotta was more than impressed. San Francisco had grown to bold proportions, with longer wharves, and elaborate buildings and it did not seem to be the same city Mary Ann left years ago. Lotta followed her mother into the Bella Union, eyeing the women in lurid clothes who were dealing cards to a group of shady men. Taken backstage quickly, Lotta performed, Mary Ann got paid, and took her away before the wild atmosphere of the saloon could leave a lasting impression. At least that's what she hoped for. Mary Ann was booking Lotta all over the city, enforcing the hard bargains she drove, hungry for gold yet still protecting Lotta passionately. When Lotta appeared in The Dumb Belle, Lotta was to carry a bottle onstage, place it on a table and exit, there was an older actresses who insisted on having the role but Mrs. Crabtree was sure to not let it happen. Mary Ann instructed Lotta to do an elaborate pantomime that in itself, became its own act.  The audience showered the stage with money and roared with laughter. Lotta wasn't going anywhere. She was an instantaneous success with great audience-drawing power. The family started touring, first traveling by schooner across the bay, then up shallow Petaluma Creek, carrying Lotta's costumes in champagne baskets, and all of Lotta's earnings in gold, in a large leather bag. The shrewd Mary Ann did not trust banks nor paper money. When this became too heavy, it was transferred to a steamer trunk. When the steamer trunk became too heavy, she invested Crabtree's earnings in local real estate, race horses and bonds.  She made good profits in Sonoma County. Lotta was then in demand in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. She gained a new skill in Placerville when a skilled black breakdown dancer taught Lotta a vigorous and complicated soft-shoe dance. She also began smoking small, thinly rolled black cigars like her dear friend Lola. It was considered to be not a very lady-like thing yet it became a trademark for Lotta. She often, on stage and off, wore male clothes. The fact that Lotta smoked cigars kept her out of the prominent ladies social group, Sorosis. This infuriated Mary Ann. Lotta could also laugh at herself. She once slipped in the street and called out “prima donna in the gutter“. By 1859, she had become "Miss Lotta, the San Francisco Favorite", who mastered the suggestive double entendre long before Mae West.  She played in Virginia City, and the famous Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone, Arizona then toured the east coast, acting in plays in theaters, a favorite for her portrayals of children due to her petite size. Her youthful appearance led The New York Times to call her “The eternal child” with "The face of a beautiful doll and the ways of a playful kitten, no one could wriggle more suggestively than Lotta." They also said in reference to her skills as a dancer, “What punctuation is to literature, legs are to Lotta”. By the end of the decade the "Lotta Polka" and "Lotta Gallup" was quite the rage in the United States. When Lotta sat down to write a letter to a friend in San Francisco in 1865 she wrote "We started out quite fresh, and so far things have been very prosperous. I am a continual success wherever I go. In some places I created quite a theatrical furor, as they call it. I have played with the biggest houses but never for so much money, for their prices are double. I'm a star, and that is sufficient, and I am making quite a name. But I treat all and every one with the greatest respect and that is not what everyone does,  and in consequence I get my reward."  In 1869 Lotta purchased a lot, on the south side of Turk street, east of Hyde, paying $7,000, a portion of her earnings at a recent show which would be 132k today. She began touring the nation with her own theatrical company in 1875, hitting the height of her success for another decade. Still a teenager she was shocking audiences by showing her legs and smoking on stage. Mary Ann was still managing her career, finding locations, organizing troupes of actors and booking plays,for the then highest-paid actress in America, who was earning sums of up to $5,000 per week, nearly 155K today.  In September of 1875 she gave the city of San Francisco a gift of appreciation to the people, a fountain modeled after a lighthouse prop from one of her plays at the intersection of Market and Kearny streets. Politicians, respectable citizens and even hellions gathered to dedicate the city's new public drinking fountain.  Lotta had many admirers, including the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia, and Brigham Young. She was proposed to many times but never married. From newspaper boys, European royalty, to lawyers and well known actors, Lotta time after time turned them down saying “I'm married to the stage”. Some said her mother would not allow it as it would end her ability to be considered forever young, and her career left little time for a social life. Some say she was only interested in women. It was whispered in the backstages of the theatres tha Adah Isaacs Menken ws Lotta's secret lover. Lotta was a bit of a rebel in her day,advocating women's rights and wearing skirts too short that she shook  while laughing at society matrons.  Lotta had many celebrity friends she was close with, including President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, the great Harry Houdini, President Ulysses S. Grant always made it a point to visit her whenever she was performing in Washington DC while he was president, and actor John Barrymore, who referred to Lotta as “ the queen of the American stage”. In New Orleans Lotta had “ The Lotta Baseball Club”. When Lotta came to visit they presented her with a gold medal and a beautiful banjo Lotta traveled to Europe with her mother and brothers, learning French, visiting museums and taking up painting. The people of San Francisco missed their very own star while she was away. After her tour ended, she went home to San Francisco to perform at the California Theatre.  In 1883, The New York Times devoted much of its front page to "The Loves of Lotta." In 1885, Mary Ann had an 18-room summer cottage built in the Breslin Park section of Mount Arlington, New Jersey, as a gift for her daughter Lotta. It was a Queen Anne/Swiss chalet style lakefront estate on the shores of Lake Hopatcong. It sat on land that sloped down to Van Every Cove. It is 2-1/2 stories on the land side and 3-1/2 on the lake side. She named it Attol Tryst (Lotta spelled backward). They gave parties, rode horses, and pursued her painting. It's "upside-down" chimneys had corbels that flared outward near the top. There was an expansive porch, including a semi-circular section that traced the curve of the parlor, wrapping around three sides of the house. Inside, there was a wine cellar, music room, library, and a fireplace flanked by terra cotta dog-faced beasts. The billiard room's massive stone fireplace once featured a mosaic that spelled out LOTTA in gemstones. After a fall in the spring of 1889 while in Wilmington, Delaware, Lotta recovered lakeside and decided to retire permanently from the stage, at age 45. later resisting calls for a farewell tour. She was the richest actress in America and  made quite a spectacle as one of the first women to own and drive her own car that she called “Red Rose”. She got out on top. During her retirement, Lotta traveled, painted and was active in charitable work. One final appearance was made in 1915 for Lotta Crabtree Day in San Francisco at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. Lotta was a vegetarian for years and took time to visit inmates in prisons.   Mary Ann died and Lotta's serious side emerged. After Mary Ann's death, Lotta seriously wanted to have her sainted. But she eventually settled on having a $20,000 stained glass window decorated with angels made for her, which is today in St. Stephen's church in Chicago.   The last 15 years of Lotta's life was spent living alone at the Brewster Hotel, which she had purchased in Boston, a dog at her feet, regularly traveling to Gloucester to paint seascapes, with a cigar in her teeth.  She died at home on September 25, 1924 at age 76. She was described by critics as mischievous, unpredictable, impulsive, rattlebrained, teasing, piquant, rollicking, cheerful and devilish. Boston papers recalled Lotta as a devoted animal rights activist who wandered the streets, putting hats on horses to protect them from the sun. She was interred at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York.  Lotta's Fountain still stands at the intersection of Market and Kearny streets in San Francisco. It is the oldest surviving monument in the City's collection. After the earthquake, it was a known gathering place and one of the only locations to get potable water in the city. It is the site of the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake every April 18. She left an estate of some $4 million in a charitable trust for “anti-animal experimentation”, “trust to provide food, fuel and hospitalization for the poor”, “help for released convicts”, “support for poor, needy actors”,” aid to young graduates of agricultural colleges”, and “relief for needy vets of WWI”. Over 59 million today. The trust still exists today. The estate ran into complications when a number of people unsuccessfully contested the will, claiming to be relatives, and a woman claimed to be Lotta's adult child. A long series of court hearings followed. The famed Wyatt Earp even testified at one of the hearings, being a friend of the family. A medical exam was conducted at the autopsy and it was confirmed that Lotta Crabtree died a virgin.  Lotta's legacy is not preserved as well as entertainers that came after her, no video or audio of her performing. She was the queen of the stage, but retired before the days of Hollywood.  Lotta's influence is all around us today in the domino of effects from the money and support she has given to farmers, animals, prisoners, soldiers, and actors. Her style was groundbreaking, and helped shape modern entertainment. Her strong influence on animal rights, women's rights, and human rights have forever shaped society and she left a legacy of love  with fountains, paintings, and by promoting the arts. Crabtree Hall, a dormitory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is named for Lotta. The Attol Tryst stands today and in recent years it has been restored. Lotta started the tradition of daytime performances for women and children, now commonly known as the afternoon matinee. Lotta was against wars, but very supportive of the members of the military, and America. Lotta has been credited as being an influence on Mary Pickford, Mae West, Betty Hutton, and Judy Garland. The Academy Award nominated 1951 movie musical “Golden Girl” was based on Lotta's exciting life, starring Hollywood Walk-Of-Famer, Mitzi Gaynor as Lotta. I am Andrea Anderson, thank you for taking the time to listen today,  let's meet again when we continue the story of Lotta Crabtree, The Queen of Captivation Chapter 8 Part 2, next time, on “Queens of the Mines.    In light of the BLM movement and the incredible change we are seeing, I would like to mention a quote said by Marian Anderson. "No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise."   Until recently, historians and the public have dismissed "conflict history," and important elements that are absolutely necessary for understanding American history have sometimes been downplayed or virtually forgotten. If we do not incorporate racial and ethnic conflict in the presentation of the American experience, we will never understand how far we have come and how far we have to go. No matter how painful, we can only move forward by accepting the truth.  Queens of the Mines was written, produced and narrated by me, Andrea Anderson.  The theme song, In San Francisco Bay is by DBUK, You can find the links to their music, tour dates and merchandise, as well as links to all our social media and research links at queensofthemines.com                    

Betty Hutton was a Hollywood star in the 1940s, the pinup girl with big energy and a big voice, but tragedy and addiction brought her low. That's when, as Tom and Noëlle Crowe tell us, an encounter with a Rhode Island priest introduced Betty to Catholicism and Jesus Christ. The post Betty Hutton appeared first on SQPN.com.

Episodes 26 - 33 ​ Chester attempts suicide and goes to jail.  Chester gets bullied by Dutch.  Burt may or may not be having an affair.  Jodi moves in with Carol.  Dutch and Eunice have sex.  Tim thinks he is cursed for marrying Corrine.  Sally is horny for Burt and Carol is pregnant.   Opening Credits/Introduction (1.14); Out of the Shower (18.05); Into The Tub (23.07); Washing the Dirt Away (1:11.27); Closing Credits (1:14.56); Closing Theme (1:016.04)   Opening Credits:  Soap Theme by George  Aliceson Tipton   Closing Credits:  Murder, He Says by Betty Hutton -  Taken from the album – It's Oh So Sweet (Blow A Fuse) by Betty Hutton.  Copyrighted 1943 Frank Loesser and Jimmy McHugh   All Rights Reserved.    All original incidental music opened and copyrighted by the LLPodcast Productions.  

Judy Garland and Betty Hutton!

Celebrating musicians born in 1921. Mario Lanza, Betty Hutton, Arthur Smith, Dennis Brain, Herb Ellis, Deanna Durbin, Nelson Riddle, Gordon MacRae and Mary Osborne. 

This week on the Rarified Heir Podcast we talk to Dr. Tara Candoli, daughter of legendary trumpeter Pete Candoli and actress mother Vicky Lane, who you may or may not know as The Ape Woman in the film, The Jungle Captive. Tara’s connection run even deeper with 40s actor Tom Neal whose story is rife with violence and scandal, her stepmother, the incomparable Betty Hutton and a grandparent Kemp Niver who received a special Oscar for preserving the earliest silent films known to exist. Somehow we’ve barely scratched the surface. Did we mention, she’s also our host Josh’s step-sister? That’s right, she was Edie Adams step-daughter as well. We jump around a lot on this episode because there is just so much to talk about. So sit back and relax as we discuss Tara’s ex-boyfriend Iggy Pop, her career as a trauma therapist and making mud pies with Rock Hudson as a toddler. There’s much to explore when you are the child of a celebrity and connected to about 4 others so let’s take a listen, on the Rarified Heir Podcast.

It's time for the all-new WPMT premiere of “Annie Get Your Gun!” Starring (from the 1950 film) Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, Keenan Wynn, Edward Arnold and J. Carol Nash with special guests Producer Arthur Freed and Composer Irving Berlin. The broadcast includes those unforgettable Berlin classics “There's No Business Like Show Business,” “I Got the Sun in the Morning,” “They Say it's Wonderful” and more! Come spend some time with WPMT!Featuring a special conversation with Indigenous Theatre and Film Artist, Frankie Pederson.Edited by Remington CleveNew episodes every Tuesday at 1pm CT!

In only three short years, Writer/Director Preston Sturges managed to climb from the lowly rung of Hollywood screenwriter to become one of the highest paid men in the entire country, making the unprecedented transition from doctoring hackneyed studio scripts to directing superlative auteur efforts, culminating in the smash success of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. This eccentric romantic comedy, set and shot during the nadir of America's involvement in World War II, manages to accomplish what very few Hollywood movies had ever managed up until that point. Sturges' deft penmanship allows him to skirt around the strict censorship of the Production Code office, during a time of hyper internal scrutiny no less, as Hollywood gave over all their efforts to supporting the war effort. Somehow, someway, Sturges manages to insert some sly ridicule into this small town comedy, while also tackling such brazen themes as overzealous military infatuation, shameless political maneuvering through savvy media manipulation, and perhaps most shocking of all, teenage pregnancy and bigamy. How Sturges got that subject past the censors we may never know, but thank god he did, as it gives The Miracle of Morgan's Creek its astonishingly hysterical premise, catapulting the dynamic talents of Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, and the most popular Sturges Stock Company actor William Demarest, ultra ripe comedic material that will send you rolling into the aisles. What was once Paramount's highest grossing film of the year is now something of a sometimes overlooked gem in Sturges' filmography, one we are all too happy to rediscover and laugh out loud to again. Timestamps: 0:00 The First Millenial Home Owner 4:50 The Vaccine Experience & the Heroes of Modern Medicine 11:07 David’s Documentary Discourse: Five Came Back (2017) 19:35 Fishing with John (1991) 23:54 My Octopus Teacher (2020) 32:35 The Miracle of Morgan Creek

Met vandaag o.a. Belbao, Sharhabil Ahmed, Kamal Keila, Betty Hutton, Frederique Spigt, Mina en Everything but the Girl.

Episode 24 features some great music by Billy Eckstine, Boyd Raeburn, Betty Hutton, Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra and more. Men also learn how to achieve the well-groomed look to get ahead both socially and on the job. ...and remember, if you want to listen to more Big Band and Swing Music check out SwingCityRadio.com to hear Your Big Band Favorites from the 1930's, 40's and Today! * All music in this podcast are Creative Commons.  Artists are credited within the podcast.

Vandaag met o.a. Betty Hutton, Calexico, Donna Blue, Vreemde Kostgangers, Tin Men & the Telephone, Jeroen van Merwijk en Blind Melon.

Show 112, “1940s Ladies,” presents 15 recordings by 12 prominent female vocalists, plus two female singing groups, all from the 1940s. Performers include Helen O’Connell, Kay Starr, Betty Hutton, Helen Forrest, Judy Garland, Dinah Washington,... Read More The post Show 112, “1940s Ladies,” appeared first on Sam Waldron.

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky. Episode 48: The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) Released 20 November 2019 For this episode, we watched The Greatest Show on Earth, written by Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett, Barré Lyndon and directed and produced by Cecil B DeMille. The stars were Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour and it won only Best Picture and Best Story. Betty Hutton’s acrobatics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIhrGSxslzQ Next time we will be discussing Braveheart. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also visit our new website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n.

Judy and Mindi in a Command Performance!

Join Thos as he catches up with Rebecca Perry and David Kingsmill to discuss the wonderful five star show, From Judy to Bette: the Stars of Old Hollywood, which pays tribute to Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Betty Hutton and Lucille Ball with songs aplenty!  Learn about the debt owed to such great songwriters as Irving Belin, Frank Loesser and Cole Porter and how these four fabulous women made Hollywood a better place, as well as what makes Rebecca herself a powerhouse performer.

Broadcast over the Armed Forces Radio Service... this program was a staple of the shows that our troops overseas heard during WW II. The studios, hosts, actors, singers...technicians... everyone contributed their time and talents to these programs to help raise the morale of our soldiers. This show's announcer is Don Wilson. Emcee is Bob Hope. Betty Hutton sings "He Says Murder He Says" - Judy Garland sings "Over the Rainbow" - Lana Turner does a "cooking skit" - The show was done in front of a live audience, generally in Hollywood. Most of the live audience was made up of members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines.

Maggie and Ian debate weather or not the Greatest Show on Earth is really the greatest show on earth. Spoiler! It isn't. But they break down exactly why and how it could've been a million times better in this episode

Met vandaag, tegenwicht tegen het Songfestival. met The Staves, Aldous Harding, Feist, laura Marling en Eels, om maar eens wat namen te noemen. Enwat dacht je van Fiona Apple en Betty Hutton?

David (@vinylophylesur Instagram) vous raconte l'histoire de It's Oh So Quiet. Horst Winter interprète Und Jetzt Ist Es Still en 1948. Tout Est Tranquilleest une adaptation par Ginette Garcin et l'orchestre de Jacques Hélian en 1949. Betty Hutton enregistre It's Oh So Quieten 1951. Et Björk en 1995 sur Post, son deuxième album. La version de Lisa Ekdahl date de 1997 et figure sur When Did You Leave Heaven. Enfin, j'ai participé au podcast Ma Chanson Préférée que vous pouvez écouter et auquel vous pouvez vous abonner. Le générique est une version de La Javanaise (Serge Gainsbourg) interprétée par Tony Feront. Retrouvez-nous sur chronicast.com et sur Twitter @ChronicastFr.

Bob Hope welcomes special guest, Betty Hutton in her 3rd appearance.   Photo of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1932-1945   Rehearsal recording for episode 126 of The Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope. Recording made on 11/16/1941 and the program originally aired on November 18, 1941.   Please email questions and comments to host@classiccomedyotr.com. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/classiccomedyotr.   Please share this podcast with your friends and family. You can also subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and Google podcasts.

On this episode, we discuss the twenty-fifth Best Picture Winner: “The Greatest Show On Earth.” "The Greatest Show on Earth" is a dazzling spectacle of life behind the scenes of the Ringling Brothers - Barnum & Bailey Circus. The story follows circus manager Brad Braden dealing with a number of issues facing the upcoming circus season, including the stingy board of directors, as well as a number of problematic circus "divas" with their own issues. Meanwhile, the past of a strange clown who refuses to remove his makeup is about to catch up with the circus as a whole. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, the film stars Betty Hutton as trapeze artist Holly, Cornel Wilde as trapeze artist The Great Sebastian, Charlton Heston as the circus manager Brad Braden, James Stewart as the clown 'Buttons,' as well as Dorothy Lamour as Phyllis and Gloria Grahame as Angel.Here on The Envelope, we discuss & review every Best Picture Winner in the Academy Awards History.We are a Cinema Squad Production, presented on the Cinema Squad Podcast Channel. You can reach anyone here at TheCinemaSquad.com – Just go there to email us, check our bios, and keep up with the latest episode.

Bob Hope welcomes special guest, Betty Hutton.     Photo of Betty Hutton in Annie Get Your Gun, 1950.   Rehearsal recording for episode 124 of The Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope. Recording made on 11/3/1941 and the program originally aired on November 4, 1941.   Please email questions and comments to host@classiccomedyotr.com. Like us on Facebook at facebook.com/classiccomedyotr.   Please share this podcast with your friends and family. You can also subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and Google podcasts.

Show 56, “Top Hits of 1946,” presents every #1 best-selling song from that year, with performances by Kay Kyser, Johnny Mercer and the Pied Pipers, The Ink Spots, Perry Como, Betty Hutton, Betty Barclay, and... Read More The post Episode 56, “Top Hits of 1946,” appeared first on Sam Waldron.

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky. Episode 48: The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) Released 20 November 2019 For this episode, we watched The Greatest Show on Earth, written by Fredric M. Frank, Theodore St. John, Frank Cavett, Barré Lyndon and directed and produced by Cecil B DeMille. The stars were Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, Charlton Heston, James Stewart and Dorothy Lamour and it won only Best Picture and Best Story. Betty Hutton's acrobatics. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIhrGSxslzQ Next time we will be discussing Braveheart. If you want to watch it before listening to the next episode you can buy the DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon.co.uk, or Amazon.com, or you can download it via iTunes (UK) or iTunes (USA). To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group, Tweet us on @bestpickpod or email us on bestpickpod@gmail.com. You can also Tweet us individually, @MrJohnDorney, @ItsJessRegan or @TomSalinsky. You should also visit our new website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n.

Shellac Stack No. 128 parades and polkas to victory! Alongside some terrific jazz from Benny Carter, Mel Powell, and Fats Waller, we hear some very good vocals from Helen Richards and Betty Hutton. The jury's still out on Florence Foster Jenkins. We also do a bit of sleuthing into a mysterious record by the “Reno … Continue reading »

We were away due to the holiday but check out this episode from April 2012! It was only our 2nd episode (ever)! Hope you like this throwback!!:)  -- This show we are highlighting some great tracks by artists: The Soul Swingers, Sonny Skitt, Ramsey Lewis, Little Jackie, The Ronnettes, Daryl Hall witrh Fitz and the Tantrums, The Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, Stephane Wrembel (Midnight in Paris Soundtrack), Betty Hutton, Jose Feliciano, Roosevelt Grier, Dave Holland, Two Door Cinema Club, and Dirk. SUBSCRIBE: iTunes  TWITTER: @MusicFirstPcast FACEBOOK: Music First Podcast EMAIL: MusicFirstPodcast@gmail.com  

This week, Cameron reveals her deep and intense hatred for the makers of the 1950 musical starring Betty Hutton, Annie Get Your Gun. Not only is the music (mostly) stupid, it also entirely misrepresents the main character herself, Annie Oakley! For old episodes of the podcast, check us out at checkyourlegacy.com

Songs by and stories about Echo and the Bunnymen, Bjork, Betty Hutton, and The Swell Maps, plus religious songs from Pastor T.L. Barrett, Brother Claude Ely, and Washington Phillips.

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This week, we cover Annie Get Your Gun, composer and lyricist Irving Berlin's 1946 response to the new Rodgers and Hammerstein formula, with book by Dorothy and Herbert Fields. Unlike R+H's serious musical plays, Annie Get Your Gun is a comedy, and quite a funny one at that! We also go over Irving Berlin's biography and play some of his older songs, as he is probably the greatest songwriter in American history. We talk about how expressive Betty Hutton is in the Annie Get Your Gun movie, so if you'd like to see it in video and not just hear the audio, here is her rendition of You Can't Get a Man with a Gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGB7yTZEZE4

The film director talks about his work with acclaimed jazz singer Anita O'Day and songwriting legend Joni Mitchell.

Highlighting legends such as Mary Astor, John Wayne, Alfred Hitchcock, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Betty Hutton, and Bob Hope, Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends uncovers stories of recovery and conversion intimate portraits that often contrast with the more common profiles of these all-too-human stars. Many were touched by infidelity, alcoholism, unbridled ambition, or other moral failings that often seem to characterize life in Hollywood. Some had deathbed conversions, others underwent a gradual process of conversion; each found solace in embracing the Catholic faith.  While taking nothing from their fame, Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends shows that even those who seem to have it all need the hope, strength, and fortitude provided by faith. Mary Claire Kendall is a Washington-based writer, with a special focus on Hollywood. She has written three feature film screenplays; three pilot sitcoms; a TV action drama pilot; two feature film treatments; and is producing and hosting an interview show about Hollywood, for which four episodes have been filmed. In 2013, she completed a collection of short stories and continues to add to it. She has been published in Forbes, where she was a regular columnist in 2012 and 2013; and Breitbart, where she was a regular columnist in 2014; as well as the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Washington Examiner, The Weekly Standard, Washington Times, San Francisco Examiner, NY Daily News, New York Post, Newport Life Magazine, National Catholic Register, Catholic New World, and Our Sunday Visitor, among other venues. A graduate of Wellesley College, Mary Claire served as a political appointee in the Administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, at the Departments of Education (1987-88) and Health and Human Services (1989-93), respectively, as a speechwriter, policy analyst and representative spearheading various initiatives.

On this week's LadyWatch agenda: Ryan and Jason introduce their first ever Dead LadyWatch episode honoring star of stage and silver screen, the Incendiary Blonde herself, Betty Hutton.

Highlighting legends such as Mary Astor, John Wayne, Alfred Hitchcock, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Betty Hutton, and Bob Hope, Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends uncovers stories of recovery and conversion—intimate portraits that often contrast with the more common profiles of these all-too-human stars. Many were touched by infidelity, alcoholism, unbridled ambition, or other moral failings that often seem to characterize life in Hollywood. Some had deathbed conversions, others underwent a gradual process of conversion; each found solace in embracing the Catholic faith. While taking nothing from their fame, Oasis: Conversion Stories of Hollywood Legends shows that even those who seem to have it all need the hope, strength, and fortitude provided by faith.

Musical Theatre star Diane Vincent (also the “Official Lucy Impersonator” at the Annual Lucy Festival in Lucille Ball’s hometown of Jamestown, NY) discusses her musical tribute to another Hollywood legend.. Betty Hutton in Nuttin’ But Hutton at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood, CA. Sterling reviews Right Together, Left Together, a new musical by Will Collyer and Pamela Eberhardt at The Grove Theatre in Burbank, CA. Stroili reviews Peter Colley’s popular Hitchcock type thriller I’ll Be Back Before Midnight also in Burbank at The Colony Theatre. Former actor-turn-businessman Eric Zudak talks about his latest entrepreneurial venture College Town Film Festival, a traveling film festival with a mission to increase communication and collaboration between the academic, creative and business sectors of independent film... one college at a time. Vincent and Zudak share memories of embarrassing moments during performances. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

Musical Theatre star Diane Vincent (also the “Official Lucy Impersonator” at the Annual Lucy Festival in Lucille Ball’s hometown of Jamestown, NY) discusses her musical tribute to another Hollywood legend.. Betty Hutton in Nuttin’ But Hutton at the NoHo Arts Center in North Hollywood, CA. Sterling reviews Right Together, Left Together, a new musical by Will Collyer and Pamela Eberhardt at The Grove Theatre in Burbank, CA. Stroili reviews Peter Colley’s popular Hitchcock type thriller I’ll Be Back Before Midnight also in Burbank at The Colony Theatre. Former actor-turn-businessman Eric Zudak talks about his latest entrepreneurial venture College Town Film Festival, a traveling film festival with a mission to increase communication and collaboration between the academic, creative and business sectors of independent film... one college at a time. Vincent and Zudak share memories of embarrassing moments during performances. Sponsored by Breakdown Services (http://www.breakdownexpress.com/)

On this episode, we'll hear from the Orson Welles Radio Almanac, this time with guest Betty Hutton.  This program originally aired March 22, 1944. Download owota155

This show we are highlighting some great tracks by artists: The Soul Swingers, Sonny Skitt, Ramsey Lewis, Little Jackie, The Ronnettes, Daryl Hall witrh Fitz and the Tantrums, The Cardinal Rex Jim Lawson, Stephane Wrembel (Midnight in Paris Soundtrack), Betty Hutton, Jose Feliciano, Roosevelt Grier, Dave Holland, Two Door Cinema Club, and Dirk. As always you can find us on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/music-first/id514748568, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Music-First-Podcast-with-DJ-Dave-Swirsky/418863534806227

Trivia alert: Normally I put any alerts, or notes at the bottom of the show notes, but I wanted to post this right at the top. The answer will follow at the bottom. In my bonus track, did you notice that both Tony Martin and Phil Harris are featured in this song? Do you know what significance this represents?   Art Linkletter searches the audience for the oldest father with a child under a year of age. A 62 year old man with a goatee turns up. He is a man who married into a circus family. He's a tattoo artist, and married to the fat lady. although Most women gain weight while they are in the family way, his wife lost 125 pounds to have her baby. Just for appearing, he wins Pilsbury flour, toiletry items for himself and baby supplies for the baby.   Mrs Meyers, a self proclaimed good cook, who has been baking for 30 years is interviewed about baking a cake. After 30 years, she has switched her ways, and just recently started using Pilsbury, and with great results. She wins a waffle iron, just for appearing.   A handful of students from a local grade school appear. The 11 year old boy impersonates Peter Lorre. Next, he gives Humphrey Bogart, and Jimmy Steweart a try. The next is a girl who is 10, and talks with Art about helping around the house, and making friends. Her lifelong dream is to get married to a man who doesn't call her short stuff, or peanut. The next boy is something of a businessman. He sells news papers on the street corner. He shares the secret that men are big tippers, but women have the right change. A 10 year old girl tells about her dad, who is a Good Humor man. She wants to be an actress, and Art lets her cut loose with a dramatic line. Another boy talks about his name, and where he came from. They all get a table model radio, and a color camera.   For the commercial spot, the announcer, Jack Slattery, shows how easy it is to mix up a cake. He even does it blind folded. Hey, I can do that!   The next man is the head of the Better Business Bureau, and offers the latest protection to guard against racketeers, and swindlers. They go door to door under the guise of taking a survey, but are really just casing the house to see when you aren't home. What should be done? Ask for credentials from a legitimate survey company. Still good advice for today, whether it's at home, in email, or on the Internet. Ask for credentials.   An Army Sergeant asks Bob, the Better Business Bureau man, about people who have been asking to put his daughter into movies. Bob explains how that scam works, and why it has such a low likelyhood of getting a person into TV.   A lady asks about lonely hearts clubs. Not recommended. It is often used as a confidence scam. Lonely hearts clubs aren't illegal, and some may be legitimate, but try to find out about their credentials. Another good bit of advice that's still valid today for Internet dating or social networking sites.   A Navy officer asks about insurance from out of state. The advice is to buy insurance that is in the state where you live. To get a claim you may need to travel, and the insurance company isn't bound to pay for claims out of their area. It's still that way today. Insurance companies are highly regional, and are limited to only covering within a state, or even just a region within the state.   A college student asks about rules concerning renting a house. The advice is that the initial deposit is non refundable, but the agencies are notorious for doing just enough to string along more payments for acting as a rental agent. Wow, another good piece of advice that is still good, and even applies to those acting agencies mentioned above.   A drawing is done to award a prize for one of the audience panel   After another commercial, the time runs out, and Art closes the show.   Bonus Track: Tony Martin, Betty Hutton, Dinah Shore, and Phil Harris. The Music.   Trivia Answer: Both Tony Martin and Phil Harris were married to Alice Faye. Bonus trivia: Betty Hutton, singer and actress was sister to Glenn Miller's lead female vocalist, Marian Hutton. Dinah Shore was married to actor George Montgomery.   Can't get enough old time radio shows? Do you feel that there just isn't enough posted here? Visitthe main Retro Radio Podcast located at:   http://retro-otr.com  

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