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Billboard Magazine article on Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players from August 17 1946
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From the September 3, 1946 Lima News:
'The Small Servant' Chosen For Bette Davis' Broadcast
Bette Davis, two-time Academy Award winner, has selected "The Small Servant," an original one-act play based on characters in Charles Dicken's "The Old Curiosity Shop," as her starring vehicle in the first Hollywood Players' program. This humorous story, broadcast at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday over CBS, in contrast to Miss Davis' usual heavy emotional roles on the screen, deals with a small servant in the home of Samson Brass, a London solicitor. The servant, portrayed by Miss Davis, lives on pathetically frugal fare and is locked up nightly after her chores are finished. But she finds a key and gets out!
From the September 3, 1946 Mason City Globe-Gazette:
On The Beam
Bette Davis stars in the opening production of "Hollywood Players," one of the most brilliant dramatic shows to hit the airwaves. Miss Davis will appear in "The Small Servant," a story based on Dickens' "Old Curiosity Shop." A powerful array of stars, pre-signed to appear at regular intervals throughout the entire season, distinguishes "Hollywood Players." Claudette Colbert, Joan Fontaine, John Garfield, Paullete Goddard and Gregory Peck, besides Miss Davis, will all appear several times on the show, and will also select the vehicles in which they play. "Hollywood Players" will be aired at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays.
The Cresta Blanca Winery had a five-year association with the Golden Age of Radio once it was acquired by Schenley Industries in 1941. During the mid-1940s, Schenley's newly acquired Cresta Blanca Wines, Ltd., sponsored several successful variety and drama anthologies, many of them starring or hosted by Orson Welles.
Cresta Blanca's first sponsored program was the former Jack Pearl Show, rebranded Cresta Blanca Carnival for its 1942 run over the Mutual Network. Cresta Blanca's This is My Best aired over CBS from 1944 through 1946. Hosted by Orson Welles from Episode 27 to Episode 33, he dropped out of This Is My Best after two months in an effort to launch his own production with Cresta Blanca entitled The Orson Welles Theatre. The Cresta Blanca Orson Welles Theatre aired for only two months. Cresta Blanca launched another derivative of This Is My Best in 1946, entitled The Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players and running fortwenty-six, star-studded programs.
"Each Week, A Great Star! . . . Each Week, A Great Show!
The term 'star-studded' had become almost ubiquitous in Radio by 1946. In the case of Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players, the term could be taken quite literally. The leads in each of the twenty-six Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players episodes were quite literally the greatest stars of Stage, Screen and Radio for 1946. Indeed, for the Christmas episode of 1946, All Through the House, broadcast on Christmas Eve, the series introduced 19-year old Janet Leigh in her first national dramatic debut. Backed by no less than Joseph Cotten, John Garfield, Gene Kelly and Gregory Peck, the production took pains to have Gregory Peck himself, announce Janet Leigh's debut to a national audience--quite an auspicious debut for a relative unknown of the era. All Through The House was a new play written especially for Christmas 1946--and Janet Leigh.
The production selections themselves were from many of the finest and most popular Films of the 30s and 40s. The two exceptions were the new plays, The Small Servant, a one-act play written for Bette Davis, and All Through The House, for Janet Leigh. As indicated in the articles above, the performers were allowed to select their own material and the adaptations were tailored to their performance by Russell Hughes or Axel Gruenberg.
The eight 'Hollywood Players' for the series were:
The series premiered with all of the above, less Joseph Cotten, who entered the Hollywood Players at Episode No. 4, The Pride of the Yankees, and remained one of the then eight Hollywood Players through the end of the series. Note that all four of the male members of the Hollywood Players participated in the special Christmas presentation of Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players with Janet Leigh in the lead. Other Film stars that supported the Hollywood Players were Lynn Bari, Hume Cronyn, Betsy Blair (Mrs. Gene Kelly), and Rex Harrison. They were supported by some of Radio's finest and most versatile voice talent, including Alan Reed, Gerald Mohr, John Lund, Rosemary DeCamp, and Ed Marr.
Paulette Goddard appears to have done the heavy lifting for the series, starring in seven of the twenty-six productions. Gregory Peck comes in second with six starring roles, followed by John Garfield with five starring roles.
Gregory Peck, Bette Davis and John Garfield confer over a script for Hollywood Players
There wasn't any explanation during the run of how the eight players were chosen. They represented several different studios and were apparently selected for their availability during the period of the twenty-six episode run. Co-starring talent was 'initiated' into the Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players fraternity by reciting the Cresta Blanca jingle at the close of their first appearance in the production. The catchy C-R-E-S-T-A B-L-A-N-C-A jingle was accompanied by Bernard Katz' orchestra's string section, plucking the Cresta Blanca jingle on there violins.
A nod should be given to the brilliant adaptations of Russell Hughes, one of Radio, Film and Television's greatest writers until his untimely demise in 1958 from a heart attack at the age of 48. Historic on several levels, the series was the first to introduce Janet Leigh to a national audience, was one of the last Radio productions to feature John Garfield in recurring appearances, and was the only production of its era to present Paulette Goddard and Gregory Peck in recurring appearances during one season.
From the March 14th 1947 edition of the Escanaba Daily Press:
-47-03-14-head.png "Radio In Review The Eagle's Brood head")
Robert Lewis Shayon, writer and director for the Columbia Broadcasting System, traveled 9,000 miles and spent four months gathering material on juvenile delinquency which C.B.S. last week presented in an hour-long documentary program called "The Eagle's Brood." Early in his quest, he encountered a word which puzzled him.
"What is 'rumbling'?" he asked a recreation worker in a canteen for teen-agers in the Negro quarter of an Eastern coastal city.
"Rumbling? That's fighting, gang war, the stuff you read aobut in the papers," she said. Mr. Shayon--played by Joseph Cotton--went hunting for a gang leader to learn a little more about rumbling. He found Frankie, fifteen-year-old Negro boy, who was "war counselor of King Arthur's Knight's," a juvenile gang. Frankie had just been shot by one of the Don Juans, a rival gang. Later the Knights went after the Don Juans with artillery and "messed 'em up plenty."
"Where do you get the artillery?"
"We make 'em ourselves or we buy 'em downtown," the boy said in the soft, musical tones of the deep South Negro. "The small fry give 'em to us."
"Why do you rumble, Frankie? How does it all start?"
"Man, you got to rumble. Otherwise you ain't got no protection. You live on one block and you go on another block and another gang say 'Who you?' You say 'I'm no club.' They take your clothes, they shoot you, they stab you. You just grow up that way."
In one small town, Mr. Shayon visited the juvenile court where a machine politician judge "played God with children's lives for votes." The sheriff brought in a thirteen-year-old girl who had been in court twenty-two times. The judge tried unsuccessfully to palm her off on a children's shelter, her aunt and her minister. Finally he paroled her off in her own custody. There was no place to send her since the state didn't provide for juvenile care. When she's fourteen, she may be sent to the county jail, however.
At the county jail (same town four boys between sixteen and nineteen awaited execution. The deputy sheriff explained with enthusiasm his preparations for this event. "We used to hang 'em. But now we've got the most modern improvements. Now we've got a portable electric chair. It travels around the state. Now lemme show you. It will set right here."
In the South, Shayon visited a 22,000-acre plantation where the state got "double profit of revenue from farm produce as well as rehabilitation" by working boys, sixteen and over, twelve hours a day under the guardianship of lifers equipped with whips and rifles, neither of which they hesitated to use. At Alcatraz, he saw a nineteen-year-old Indian boy who was one of the ringleaders of the recent attepted jailbreak and read his record: "Born on a reservation, minority group, culteral conflict, broken home, truancy, stealing, robbery, murder . . . probably will not adjust.
At a mountain reformatory in the Rockies, there were no teachers or vocational trainers because the state couldn't persuade them to work for $140 a month and the boys worked in the fields for lack of anything else to do. A twelve-year-old was in solitary for an attempted break to find his father. He'd been badly beaten by a kangaroo court.
"There are no votes in these kids", said the superintendent wearily. "We make them. We teach them. We graduate them. We even givem them degrees--masters of crime in the college of revenge."
Finally, in a Mid-West city--"in a slum, in a stockyard neighborhood that had fed more juvenile delinquents to the prisons of our nation than any other"--Mr. Shayon found what he considers the answer, neighborhood councils. "I've been in this neighborhood thirty-four years," a merchant told him. "I remember when there was shop-lifting, window-smashing, gang-killing. Not any more. Not since the neighborhood council."
"It used to be a favorite sport in this neighborhood to beat up Mexicans," said a member of that race. "The Lithuanians hated thePolaks, the Slovaks hated the Jews and the Irish hated everybody. Not any more."
The precinct police captain said the cops didn't take kids to court; they took them to the council. They got the delinquents jobs, organized the gangs into athletic clubs, and gave them responsible positions in the council. "Every one will argue about everything in this country--except kids," said the council director. "About kids everybody agrees."
The broadcast ended on this note of glowing hopefulness as if neighborhood councils were the secret formula for juvenile delinquency, which is certainly a bit optimistic. Still, it's nice that a documentary of this sort suggests a cure rather than merely states the problem. C.B.S. gave the program a full-blooded production with an able cast including Luther Adler in the role of the council director. The regional dialects were the best I've ever heard on the air.
I have a few small complaints. Why, for instance, didn't C.B.S. name the cities where these conditions were found rather than refer to them as an "East Coast city." It sounds like timidity, as if the broadcasters didn't want to arouse municipal hostility toward the network. Also, there were at least three snide references to newspapers sensationalizing juvenile delinquency, rather than explaining it, in order to sell more papers. Actually newspapers were exposing the conditions which breed juvenile delinquency before the broadcasters knew how to spell it.
The problem itselfl, I'd say, was over-sentimentalized and the conclusion was certainly too sweeping. Nevertheless, this hour-long documentary was the most ambitious public service program since the Bikini bomb tests and provided a thorough and honest education into one of the nation's No. 1 problems. It was also, apart from its subject matter, an excellent and literate radio program.
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Genre: |
Anthology of Golden Age Radio Dramas |
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Network(s): |
CBS |
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Audition Date(s) and Title(s): |
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Premiere Date(s) and Title(s): |
46-09-03 01 The Small Servant |
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Run Dates(s)/ Time(s): |
46-09-03 to 47-02-26; CBS; Twenty-six, 30-minute programs; Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m. |
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Syndication: |
CBS |
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Sponsors: |
Schenley Laboratories' Cresta Blanca Wines |
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Director(s): |
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Principal Actors: |
Bette Davis, Rex Harrison, John Garfield, Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotten, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard, Gregory Peck, Gene Kelly, Betsy Blair, Janet Leigh, Hume Cronyn, John Lund, Rosemary De Camp, Lynn Bari, Alan Reed, Edward Marr, Gerald Mohr |
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Recurring Character(s): |
None |
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Protagonist(s): |
None |
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Author(s): |
Clifford Odets, Nunnally Johnson, Daphne Du Maurier, |
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Writer(s) |
Russell Hughes, Axel Gruenberg [Adapters] |
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Music Direction: |
Bernard Katz [Composer/Conductor] |
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Musical Theme(s): |
Unknown |
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Announcer(s): |
Frank Bingman [Announcer] |
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Estimated Scripts or
Broadcasts: |
26 |
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Episodes in Circulation: |
5 |
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Total Episodes in Collection: |
4 |
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RadioGOLDINdex, Hickerson Guide.
Notes on Provenances:
The most helpful provenances were the log of the radioGOLDINdex and newspaper listings.
You're welcome to compare our fully provenanced research with the '1,500 expert researchers' at the OTRR and their own Hollywood Players log. We've also provided a screen shot of their current log for comparison, HERE, to protect our own ongoing due diligence. What they do cite is a page of equally inaccurate references:
OTRisms:
Both of the above inaccurate references are missing an entire episode of Hollywood Players--Pal Joey, from January 8, 1947. Martin Grams, in his $90 Radio Drama book, apparently selected the inaccurate log of The Vintage Radio Place as its source. We say apparently, since Radio Drama cites no references or bibliography whatsoever. In any case, the errors are identical.
The OTRR generously included the following two entirely unrelated programs as episodes 27 and 28 of Hollywood Players by way of some form of lagniappe:
- The Eagle's Brood, a special CBS Documentary Unit production tracing the state of America's teenagers across the country
- A The Whistler episode titled, A Woman's Privilege, the premiere episode of the 1947 season of The Whistler.
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The Hollywood Players Radio Program Log
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The Small Servant |
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46-09-03 Wisconsin State Journal - 7:30 p.m.--Hollywood Players (WBBM): premier of program, with Bette Davis and Rex Harrison in "The Small Servant." 46-09-03 Salamanca Republican-Press - 9:30 CBS--Hollywood Players, drama series, going in instead of last year's This Is My Best, with a regular cast of movie stars to alternate in the leads. The opener is to present Bette Davis and Rex Harrison in "The Small Servant." |
| 46-09-10 |
2
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The Fallen Sparrow |
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46-09-10 Lima News - John Garfield, who in Horatio Alger fashion rose from a childhood of poverty in New York's squalid lower East Side to become afront-rank screen actor, will be the star in the second "Hollywood Players" program at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday over CBS. Garfield has chosen as his radio vehicle "The Fallen Sparrow," a brooding but exciting story of mystery and romance involving a young man who has just returned from war-torn Europe in which he made a great success on the screen. |
| 46-09-17 |
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Skylark |
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46-09-17 Mason City Globe-Gazette - CLAUDETTE COLBERT - A delightful comedy will be presented on "Hollywood Players" at 7:30 p.m., when Claudette Colbert stars in "Skylark." Miss Colbert plays Lydia in the story of a witty wife whose 10-year-old marriage to a dynamic but thoughtless advertising executive is headed for the rocks. How a disastrous party celebrating their wedding anniversary changes the course of their lives is the basis for an astonishing climas. Miss Colbert will be the 3rd of the all-star "Hollywood Players" company to appear on the sparkling new program. Bette Davis and John Garfield were heard on the first 2 shows, and Joan Fontaine, Gene Kelly, Paulette Goddard and Gregory Peck will appear on forthcoming broadcasts. |
| 46-09-24 |
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Pride Of the Yankees |
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46-09-24 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Pride of the Yanks - Joseph Cotton has joined the all-star company comprising the cast of "Hollywood Players," and will appear on the program at 7:30 p.m. tonight in an adaptation of "Pride of the Yankees," the life story of Lou Gehrig. Keyed to the present national interest in the coming World Series, "Pride of the Yankees" relates the story of one of the greatest sluggers of all time and the idol of American Youth. The "Hollywood Players" include Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, John Garfield, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard, Gene Kelly, Gregory Peck, and, of course, our star for tonight, Mr. Cotten. |
| 46-10-01 |
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Rebecca |
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46-10-01 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Rebecca - Joan Fontaine and Joseph Cotten will co-star in "Rebecca," on the 5th of the "Hollywood Players" series at 8:30 p.m. Miss Fontaine will re-create the role which won her an Academy award. "Rebecca" is the romantic story of a girl who meets and marries Max de Winter in Monte Carlo. He takes here to his estate in England where the young bride is surrounded by constant reminders of Max's first wife, Rebecca, and overpowered by the obvious hate of Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper. A shipwreck provides the dramatic climax to the story. |
| 46-10-08 |
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Golden Boy |
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46-10-08 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Golden Boy - John Garfield will portray the part of an idealistic young prize fighter who hopes to go ahead with his pugilistic career even over the protests of his family, who want him to be a violinist. The play is Clifford Odet's stage and screen success, "Golden Boy," and the program is "Hollywood Players" at 8:30 p.m.
Announces Bette Davis in Elizabeth, The Queen as the next production. |
| 46-10-15 |
7
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Bachelor Mother |
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46-10-15 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Paulette Goddard - "Bachelor Mother," starring Paulette Goddard, is the presentation of "Hollywood Players" at 8:30 p.m. Bette Davis, originally scheduled to appear in "Elizabeth the Queen on this broadcast, was stricken ill last Friday, necessitating postponement of that dramatization until a later date. |
| 46-10-22 |
8
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Sullivan's Travels |
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46-10-22 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Hollywood Players - Gregory Peck portrays a movie director who disguises himself as a hobo in "Sullivan's Travels," the "Hollywood Players" presentation at 8:30 p.m. The story is a satirical comedy dealing with the young director's efforts to produce the "great American film." His sheltered ideas of life beyond the studio are rudely upset by a despondent young beauty who shows him how raw life can really be. |
| 46-10-29 |
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Nothing Sacred |
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46-10-29 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Nothing Sacred - Joseph Cotton stars in the uproarious comedy, "Nothing Sacred," on "Hollywood Players" at 8:30 p.m. Cotton plays Wally Cook, star reporter, who gets his paper to sponsor a trip to New York as the "last fling" for a girl stricken with radium poisoning. Wally falls in love with her, only to discover that the diagnosis was a mistake and she knew it. Fearing his editor will think the stunt a hoax, wally works out the dilemma in a unique way. |
| 46-11-05 |
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Kitty |
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46-11-05 Tucson Daily Citizen
Hear "Kitty" for the first time on the air when the Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players present this humorous story of the beggar girl who rose from the slums to join London's royalty. KTUC 7:30 TONIGHT |
| 46-11-12 |
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Heaven Can Wait |
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46-11-12 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Gregory Peck - (8:30 p.m.) In his second appearance on "Hollywood Players," Gregory Peck stars in "Heaven Can Wait." Peck starts off as a 70 year old man being interviewed by Satan in Hades to determine whether he qualifies as a star boarder. A series of flashbacks tell the story of the old man's life, building up to a surprise climax. |
| 46-11-19 |
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Affairs Of Susan |
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46-11-19 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Joan Fontaine (8:30 p.m.) In her second appearance on "Hollywood Players," Joan Fontaine recreates her role in "Affairs of Susan." Miss Fontaine portrays a young woman who changes her personality to please a variety of beaux. In the process, she quixotically reaches teh perfect solution, bringing the tale to an amusing climax. |
| 46-11-26 |
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The Glass Key |
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46-11-26 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Hollywood Players - (8:30 p.m.) Gene Kelly makes his first appearance on "Hollywood Players" in Dashiell Hammet's mystery, "The Glass Key." The story is of love and big city politics. The son of a senator up for re-election is found murdered, and the blame is placed on the town's political boss. |
| 46-12-03 |
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Standing Room Only |
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46-12-03 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Hollywood Players - (8:30 p.m.) Paulette Goddard stars in a satirical story of a toy manufacturer and his secretary, who pose as servants in order to get living quarters in crowded Washington, in "Standing Room Only," presented by "Hollywood Players." |
| 46-12-10 |
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No Time For Comedy |
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46-12-10 Lima News - Gregory Peck will star in the sophisticated comedy which scored a great hit on both stage and screen, "No Time For Comedy," on the Hollywood Players program at 9:30 over CBS. Peck will portray Gaylord Esterbrooks, an ambitious young playwright from the west, whose first play is about the plushy Park-av set he never has seen. It's a hit, and he goes on to write more successful comedies. Then he marries Linda, star of his first play, and they come to New York, where he meets--and is almost completely ruined by--the Park-av set. |
| 46-12-17 |
16
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The Constant Nymph |
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46-12-17 Wisconsin State Journal - 8:30 p.m.--Hollywood Players (WBBM): Joan Fontaine in "The Constant Nymph."
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| 46-12-24 |
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All Through the House
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46-12-24 Lima News
Elements of both Christmas and Cinderella stories will be combined when four famous movie stars support an unknown young film actress on the "Hollywood Players" program at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday over CBS. The film find is Janet Leigh and the four stars are Joseph Cotten, John Garfield, Gene Kelly and Gregory Peck.
Announces new Day and time: Wednesdays at 9 p.m. |
| 47-01-01 |
18
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Fifth Avenue Girl |
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47-01-01 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Hollywood Players - (9 p.m.) Paulette Goddard in "Fifth Avenue Girl" plays the part of a poor girl with no job but plenty of humor and spunk--enough to cheer up a morose millionaire and give his family a new outlook on life. |
| 47-01-08 |
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Pal Joey |
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47-01-08 Mason City Globe-Gazette - Hollywood Players - (9 p.m.) Gene Kelly will be starred in the title role of "Pal Joey," the Rodgers and Hart musical comedy that brought him fame on Broadway. Mrs. Kelly--whose stage name is Betsy Blair--plays opposite her husband. Kelly is expected to sing 2 of the hit songs from the show--"I Could Write a Book" and "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered." |
| 47-01-15 |
20
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The Woman In the Window |
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47-01-15 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Hollywood Players (WBBM): "The Woman in the Window," with John Garfield. |
| 47-01-22 |
21
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Random Harvest |
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47-01-22 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Random Harvest - (9 p.m.) Joseph Cotton stars in the adaptation of James Hilton's novel "Random Harvest" on the "Hollywood Players" show. Cotton portrays Charles Ranier, a British soldier who while suffering from amnesia, marries a girl who nurses him back to health. |
| 47-01-29 |
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Dark Victory |
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47-01-29 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Maureen O'Hara stars as Judith Traherne, tragic heroine who faces blindness and death in "Dark Victory." Hume Cronyn plays the supporting role of Dr. Frederick Steel. Judith induces Dr. Steele to marry her, though both know she has only 2 months to live. "Dark Victory" is presented by "Hollywood Players." |
| 47-02-05 |
23
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And Now, Tomorrow |
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47-02-05 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Gene Kelly - (9 p.m.) "Hollywood Players" present an adaptation of the film "And Now Tomorrow," with Gene Kelly playing Dr. Vance. The drama centers on the conflict of ideals and values between a young physician born on the wrong side of the tracks and a wealthy young woman patient whose hearing he has restored. |
| 47-02-12 |
24
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Diary Of A Chambermaid |
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47-02-12 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Paulette Goddard - (9 p.m.) "Diary of a Chambermaid," with Paulette Goddard playing her original screen role, will be presented by "Hollywood Players." Miss Goddard is cast as a young French Girl of the early 1800's who works for several wealthy families, constantly involving herself in hilarious situations. |
| 47-02-19 |
25
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The Major and the Minor |
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47-02-19 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Hollywood Players - (9 p.m.) Joan Fontaine and John Lund co-star in "The Major and the Minor," hilarious comedy of a young woman who masquerades as a 12 year old girl. Sue Applegate finds she is $5 short of money for train fare and decides to disguise herself as a child in order to travel at half-fare. |
| 47-02-26 |
26
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Vivacious Lady |
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[Final Episode]
47-02-26 Mason City Globe-Gazette - (9 p.m.) "Hollywood Players" present Paulette Goddard in "Vivacious Lady," the gay, delightful and hilarious comedy revolving around the secret marriage of a shy young college professor and a beautiful night club dancer. |
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The Eagle's Brood |
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47-03-05 Mason City Globe-Gazette
The Eagle's Brood (9 p.m.) A highly dramatic but factual account of delinquency problems in the U.S. will be presented by the CBS Documentary Unit in an hour-long program beginning at 9 p.m. Wednesday. Joseph Cotten will act as narrator of "The Eagle's Brood," produced and directed by Robert Lewis Shayon, who traveled 9,000 miles and spent 3 months in studying juvenile delinquency. Shayon talked to judges, social workers, delinquents and their parents, visited police stations, juvenile courts and reformatories; he went out of his way to visit the breeding grounds of delinquency and to talk with youthful gang leaders. Shayon was indignant at the complete indifference of the general public to the phases of delinquency, and his indignation is evident in the script. The center of the stage, however, will be given to the facts concering 3 major questions:
(1) What causes juvenile criminality and maladjustment?
(2) What does it do to its youthful victims?
(3) What can we do about it, as individuals, as communities, and as a nation? |
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A Woman's Privilege |
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47-03-12 Evening Independent
COMING UP TONIGHT: CBS 10 the Whistler, Mystery drama, returning after an absence since last summer, starting with the story of "A Woman's Privilege."
47-03-12 Wisconsin State Journal - 9 p.m.--The Whistler (WBBM): new time and day "A Woman's Privilege." |
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