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The 1940's Radio Hour is a musical by Walton Jones. Using popular songs from the 1940s, it portrays the final holiday broadcast of the Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade on the New York radio station WOV in December 1942. The show opened at St. James Theatre on October 7, 1979 after 14 previews and closed on January 6, 1980 after 105 shows. [1]
Scatterbrain is a 1940 American comedy film directed by Gus Meins and written by Val Burton, Jack Townley and Paul Conlan. The film stars Judy Canova, Alan Mowbray, Ruth Donnelly, Eddie Foy Jr., Joseph Cawthorn and Wallace Ford. The film was released on July 20, 1940, by Republic Pictures. [1] [2] [3]
Scatterbrain was an American funk metal band from Long Island, New York, founded in 1989 by Tommy Christ and Glen Cummings after their hardcore group Ludichrist broke up. [2] The band plays hard rock , heavy metal , thrash metal , and funk metal with humorous, ironic lyrics.
The Chase and Sanborn Hour; Chickenman; The Credibility Gap; The Cuckoo Hour; The Dr Demento Radio Show; Duffy's Tavern; The Durante-Moore Show; Easy Aces; The Eddie Cantor Show; Fibber McGee and Molly; The Firesign Theatre; Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel; The Fire Chief/Ed Wynn Show; The Fred Allen Show; Forever Ernest; Gasoline Alley; The ...
The Timid Soul was a 1941–1942 comedy based on cartoonist H. T. Webster's famed Caspar Milquetoast character, and Robert L. Ripley's Believe It or Not! was adapted to several different radio formats during the 1930s and 1940s. Conversely, some radio shows gave rise to spinoff comic strips, such as My Friend Irma starring Marie Wilson. [19]
Film critic Bruce Eder wrote, "The Big Clock is a near-perfect match for the book, telling in generally superb visual style a tale set against the backdrop of upscale 1940s New York and offering an early (but accurate) depiction of the modern media industry." [citation needed]
Phil Spitalny (November 7, 1890 – October 11, 1970) was a Russian-born American musician, music critic, composer, and bandleader heard often on radio during the 1930s and 1940s. He rose to fame after he led an all-female orchestra, a novelty at the time.
1 February: Radio Nacional de Colombia is launched as Radiodifusora Nacional de Colombia [1] three years after closure of the country's first state-owned radio station, HJN. 25 February: The Proud Valley is the first known film to have its première on radio when the BBC broadcasts a 60-minute version.