SALUTE TO SHELDON LEONARD

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, October 6, 1984

SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE (4-3-49) “Ghost Breakers” starring Bob Hope with Sheldon Leonard and Shirley Mitchell. Radio version of Hope’s 1940 comedy-mystery film. A Indio reporter travels to Black Island, inhab­ited by zombies, crones and ghosts. Sustaining, NBC. (14:00; 16:00)

OUR SPECIAL GUEST will be SHELDON LEONARD who talks about his varied career as an actor, writer, producer and director in a conversation recorded in his Beverly Hills, California home on March 19, 1984. (27:30; 19:39)

MULLIGAN’S TRAVELS (1940s) Audition re­cording of a program that did not make a net­work or syndication appearance. Sheldon Leonard stars as a cab driver from Brooklyn who strives to get his education through the G. I. bill. Cast includes Bea Benadaret, Verna Felton, Arthur Q. Brian, Eric Snowdon. (16:10; 11:26)

ADVENTURES OF MAISIE (1949) Ann Soth­ern stars as Maisie Revere with Sheldon Leonard, Hans Conried, Bea Benadaret, Ben Wright. Maisie meets royalty while working on a farm.

SUSPENSE (1-8-54) “The Face is Familiar” starring Jack Benny with Sheldon Leonard, Joe Kearns, Hy Averback. Some shady charac­ters dupe Jack into assisting in a bank robbery. AutoLite, CBS. (15:10; 13:45)

EXTRA: Throughout the program this after­noon, you’ll hear many clips from past Jack Benny programs featuring Sheldon Leonard in his role as the racetrack tout.