RADIO’S FRENCH CONNECTION – PART 1  

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, October 14, 2000 

MY FAVORITE HUSBAND (1950s) Lucille Ball and Richard Denning star as Liz and George Cooper, with Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as Rudolph and Iris Atterberry. A new French restaurant opens in town and Liz is worried about a menu written in French so she and Iris decide to take French lessons. AFRTS re­broadcast. (24 min)

RAILROAD HOUR (7-16-51) “Springtime in Paris” starring Gordon MacRae and Dorothy Warrenskjold offering “the great music of the City of Paris in a brand new musical play” by Lawrence and Lee. A romantic boy-meets-girl story set in the City of Lights. Associa­tion of American Railroads, NBC. (30 min)

THE WHISTLER (1940s) “Ticket To Paris” featuring Bill Forman as the Whistler. After World War II, a French woman in the U.S. lives in terror of a man who has sworn to kill her. Marvin Miller announces. Signal Oil Co., CBS. (28 min)

PHIL HARRIS-ALICE FAYE SHOW (6-12-49) Phil and Frankie Remley (Elliott Lewis) try to teach English to Frankie’s adopted French orphan. First of two consecutive shows; part two next week on TWTD. Rex-all, NBC. (29 min)

CBS RADIO WORKSHOP (7-6-56) “Portrait of Paris,” a “city of contradictions.” A word-picture of the French capitol, beautifully writ­ten and narrated by David Schoenbrun, vet­eran CBS foreign correspondent. Program in­cludes interviews with Parisians and clips fea­turing Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. Sus­taining, CBS. (28 min)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (12-7-52) Jack and the gang, using French accents, present their version of Charles Boyer’s 1952 picture, “The Happy Time,” set in French Canada in the 1920s. Jack, naturally, plays the Boyer role. AFRS rebroadcast. (25 min)

NOTE— Ken Alexander is guest host for this program while Chuck Schaden and a group of TWTD listeners are on vacation in France