REMEMBERING RUDY VALLEE

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 15, 2000

RUDY VALLEE SHOW (3-4-47) Rudy’s guests are comic Dave Barry, singer Jane Harvey, and three radio actresses: Barbara Luddy, Cathy Lewis, Lurene Tuttle, in a “Powder Room” sketch set on the night of the Academy Awards banquet. Rudy sings medleys of his most famous tunes over the years. Philip Morris Cigarettes, NBC. (29 min)

SPEAKING OF RADIO (9-9-71) Rudy Vallee talks about his career in a telephone conver­sation with Chuck Schaden recorded prior to a personal appearance in Chicago. (28 min)

ROYAL GELATIN HOUR (3-25-37) Rudy Vallee stars in one of radio’s major variety programs. Guests include Tyrone Power, Bob Hope, Florence Desmond, and Edgar Bergen and Char­lie McCarthy who got their big chance on ra­dio by being on Vallee’s program in 1936 and 1937. Power appears in a scene from Noel Coward’s “Shadow Play” and Bergen tells McCarthy the story of Robinson Caruso. Announcer is Graham McNamee. Robert Armbruster and the orchestra. Royal Gelatin, NBC. (24 min & 31 min)

BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW (6-14-49) George and Gracie welcome guest Rudy Vallee. Gra­cie believes her teen-aged house guest is in love with Rudy Vallee. Maxwell House Cof­fee, NBC. (30 min)

RUDY VALLEE AND HIS CONNECTICUT YAN­KEES (5-31-38) Broadcasting from the Roof Garden of the Hotel Astor in New York City, Rudy announces the entire program which fea­tures such musical selections as “Spring is Here,” “I Married an Angel,” and “Cry, Baby, Cry.” Sustaining, NBC. 130 min)