Showing posts with label Lux Radio Theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lux Radio Theatre. Show all posts
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Deluxe Lux photo!
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| (1949) Click to enlarge |
I believe William Conrad is on the far right (second from the last.)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Five things off the top of my head that changed radio
5. Comedians Who Used Silence as Humor - Comedians such as Jack Benny and Gale Gordon used silence as a comedy tool, unlike the machine gun repartee of Burns and Allen and Milton Berle, Benny's pauses brought just as much laughter to audiences as a joke would.
4. The Rise of the Drama and Comedy over Music - Thanks to shows like Lux Radio Theatre, the drama changed radio by 1935 - from a news and music medium to a drama/comedy medium.
3. The Rise of the Kiddie Adventure - Crime fighters and adventures-seekers come in all shapes and sizes and a lot of them were geared at the child. By the late 1930's, these shows were all over the dial.
2. The Rise of the Soap Opera - Lonely women, whose husbands and boyfriends were off fighting on foreign soil, became captivated by the "soap opera" - radio melodrama whose commercials were geared at the woman (soap, breakfast cereals, hair products, etc.)
1. The Mercury Theater Presents The War of the Worlds - No fault of their own, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead and company create panic on Halloween night in 1938, giving people a whole new understanding about the power of radio.
©Jimbo 2010/2011
4. The Rise of the Drama and Comedy over Music - Thanks to shows like Lux Radio Theatre, the drama changed radio by 1935 - from a news and music medium to a drama/comedy medium.
3. The Rise of the Kiddie Adventure - Crime fighters and adventures-seekers come in all shapes and sizes and a lot of them were geared at the child. By the late 1930's, these shows were all over the dial.
2. The Rise of the Soap Opera - Lonely women, whose husbands and boyfriends were off fighting on foreign soil, became captivated by the "soap opera" - radio melodrama whose commercials were geared at the woman (soap, breakfast cereals, hair products, etc.)
1. The Mercury Theater Presents The War of the Worlds - No fault of their own, Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead and company create panic on Halloween night in 1938, giving people a whole new understanding about the power of radio.
©Jimbo 2010/2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Lux Radio Theatre
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| Rehearsal: 10 to 12 hours. Among the cast here are Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck |
Friday, January 14, 2011
Billboard vs Jimbo: Lux Radio Theatre
Surely, anyone who enjoys classic Hollywood films would enjoy Lux Theater.
The show is loaded down with radio's top production, top Hollywood stars and top film screenplays crammed into an hour of radio. It really gets no better than this.
The only drawback (for me) is sitting through a program for a whole hour. Most of the Lux productions I have already seen on the Turner Classic Movie network, so it's hard to hold my interest. But that's not LRT's fault.
The first-class productions are wonderful radio listening and every now and then I seek one out I haven't heard before. You can find any genre you want. Generally I avoid the mostly-romance shows and stick to the productions that are full of adventure, action or crime.
For someone who hasn't seen all the films, I'd think this would be like a lower level of heaven.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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