REMEMBERING RONALD COLMAN

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, April 15, 1989

HALLS OF IVY (1950) Ronald Colman and his wife Benita star as “William Todhunter Hall, president of Ivy College and his wife, the former Victoria Cromwell of the English theatre.” It’s graduation week at Ivy College and a much-loved professor is about to resign. Cast includes Peter Leeds, Arthur Q. Brian, Sheldon Leonard, Herb Butterfield. Schlitz Beer, NBC. (15:50; 12:57)

LUX RADIO THEATRE (9-15-41) “Lost Horizon” stars Ronald Colman who recreates his screen role in this radio adaptation of the 1937 motion picture directed by Frank Capra: James Hilton’s story of escapism when five people are kidnapped and taken to Shangri-La, a strange Tibetan monastery where all are immortal. Cast includes Donald Crisp, Lynne Carver, Cy Kendall, Dennis Green, Peter Leeds. Melville Ruick announces, Cecil B. DeMille is host-producer. Lux Soap, CBS. (18:54; 20:57; 19:09)

JACK BENNY PROGRAM (1-16-49) Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Colman join Jack and the gang. Colman, fed up with Jack, falls asleep and dreams he’s Benny. Then he dreams that Jack is him! Lucky Strike, CBS. (10:50; 17:50)

SUSPENSE (12-7-53) “Trent’s Last Case” stars Ronald Colman as detective Phillip Trent in a dramatization of E. C. Bentley’s classic novel of deduction. Cast features Joseph Kearns, Alan Morgan, Richard Beals. Harlow Wilcox, Larry Thor announces. Produced by Elliott Lewis. AutoLite, CBS. (16:45; 12:20)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be Nostalgia Digest columnist and film buff BOB KOLOSOSKI who will be on hand to talk about the film career of Ronald Colman.