J. CARROL NAISH ON RADIO
Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, June 3, 2000
LIFE WITH LUIGI (6-5-49) J. Carrol Naish stars as Luigi Basco, the “little immigrant” from Italy, with Alan Reed as Pasquale, Hans Conried as Schultz, Mary Shipp as Miss Spaulding. When Luigi’s night school class collects money for a gift for their teacher, Pasquale steers Luigi to the race track. Sustaining, CBS. (30 min)
SUSPENSE (7-12-45)“Footfalls” starring J. Carrol Naish as a blind man who refuses to believe that his son is a murderer. Roma Wines, CBS. (30 min)
LUX RADIO THEATRE (12-13-43) “Five Graves to Cairo” starring Franchot Tone, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger, J. Carrol Naish, and Fortunio Bonanova in the radio version of the 1943 film. Cecil B. DeMille hosts this drama of World War II intrigue as an English soldier and a French innkeeper match wits with German Field Marshal Rommel and the Nazis in a remote Sahara Desert hotel. Lux Soap, CBS. (25 min & 20 min & 14 min)
LIFE WITH LUIGI (4-15-52) J. Carrol Naish as Luigi who is having trouble sleeping at night. Pasquale tries to convince him that not being married to Rosa is the cause of his insomnia. Alan Reed as Pasquale, Jody Gilbert as Rosa, Joe Forte as Horowitz, Ken Peters as Olson. Charles Lyons announces. Wrigley’s Gum, CBS. (31 min)
SUSPENSE (2-4-52) “The Treasure Chest of Don Jose” stars J. Carrol Naish in a story about a buried treasure and the curse that went with it. AutoLite, CBS. (29 min)
Updated: 6/3/25 6:49 pm C.S.T.
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