RADIO’S EASTER PARADE

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, April 15, 2006

FIBBER McGEE AND MOLLY (3-23-48) Jim and Marian Jordan star. Molly wins a contest and her prize is a new dress for Easter.  Cast includes Gale Gordon as Foggy Williams; Bill Thompson as the Old Timer; Arthur Q. Bryan as Doc Gamble; with Harlow Wilcox, the King’s Men, Billy Mills and the orchestra.  Johnson’s Wax, NBC. (30 min)

HOLLYWOOD STAR TIME (4-21-46) “The Song of Bernadette” starring Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Vanessa Brown in a radio performance of the 1944 Academy Award-winning film. It’s the story of a religious French girl in the 1800s who sees a vision of the Blessed Virgin. Frigidare, Gen­eral Motors, CBS. (29 min)

KRAFT MUSIC HALL (4-6-44) Bing Crosby stars in his annual Easter program with Marilyn Maxwell, Charioteers, Music Maids and Men, John Scott Trotter and the orchestra, announc­er Ken Carpenter. Guests are the Kraft Choral Club. Time marches back to 1933. Bing and Marilyn sing “Easter Parade.” Kraft Foods, NBC. (30 min)

HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE (4-14-49) “One Foot in Heaven” starring George Brent in the story of a Methodist preacher “with one foot in Heaven and one foot on God’s green Earth” as he sets up a parsonage in an small Iowa town. James Hilton hosts. Cast includes Ed Begley, Parley Baer. Hallmark Cards, CBS. (29 min)

GREAT GILDERSLEEVE (4-9-52) Willard ‘Waterman stars as Gildersleeve with Walter Tetley as Leroy, Mary Lee Robb as Marjorie, Lillian Randolph as Birdie. Gildy is persuaded to get up at 4 a.m. to attend the Easter Sunrise Service. Birdie sings “Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?” Kraft Foods, NBC. (29 min)