Reblog: Screen Guild Theatre July 4th Triple Feature

Happy Independence Day to all my American readers! Hope you like Aurora’s new post as much as I did. 🙂

Once upon a screen...

A special post honoring Independence Day with Screen Guild Theater radio adaptations of three patriotic classic movies. Enjoy!

Yankee Doodle Dandy
Starring:  James Cagney, Joan Leslie, Walter Huston, Jeanne Cagney, Richard Whorf, S.C. Sokol, Charles Irwin

A Yank in the R.A.F.
Starring:  Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Pat O’Malley

Take a Letter, Darling
Starring:  Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant (in the part played by Fred MacMurray in the film version) and Edward Everett Johnson

russ cary

The Guild, Gulf Oil and CBS bring The Screen Guild Show to the air:

The Gulf Oil Corporation sponsored the first four seasons of The Screen Guild Show – from 1939 to the Summer of 1942. The program was called The Gulf Screen Guild Show for its first season, and The Gulf Screen Guild Theatre for Seasons Two through Four. The reasoning for the name change was simply a natural progression in the type of productions…

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