Lux Radio Theatre
NBC, 14.10.34
Short appereance - the
show switched to CBS in January of 1935. Grant admitted he had "mike fright" for
many of his early radio appearances. Numerous episodes directed by C.B.DeMille
CBS, 05.04.35
Adam and Eve - with
Constance Cummings
CBS, 15.10.36
The Awful Truth - with
Claudette Colbert and Phyllis Brooks
CBS, 21.11.36
Medicine Girls - with
Constance Bennett
CBS, 08.03.37
Madame Butterfly - with
Grace Moore
CBS, 13.06.38
Theodora Goes Wild - with
Irene Dunne
CBS, 28.05.39
Only Angels Have Wings - with Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell and Rita Hayworth
CBS, 11.09.39
The Awful Truth - repeat
CBS, 11.12.39
In Name Only - with
Carole Lombard and Kay Francis
CBS, 30.06.41
I Love You Again
CBS, 26.01.42
Here Comes Mr.Jordan - with
Claude Rains
CBS, 20.07.42
The Philadelphia Story - this presentation was a special Victory Show for the U.S. Government. Also
starred Kathrine Hepburn and Lt. James Stewart
CBS, 17.05.43
Talk of the Town - with
Ronald Colman and Jean Arthur
CBS, 18.10.43
Mr. Lucky - with
Laraine Day
CBS, 26.02.45
Bedtime Story - with
Greer Garson
CBS, 13.06.49
Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer - with Shirley Temple
CBS, 27.06.49
Every Girl Should Be Married - with Betsy Drake
CBS, 17.04.50
Every Girl Should Be Married - repeat
CBS, 10.10.50
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - with Irene Dunne
CBS, 11.05.53
The Bishop's Wife -
with Phyllis Thaxter
CBS, 21.09.53
I Confess - with
Phyllis Thaxter
CBS, 25.01.54
People Will Talk - with
Jeanne Crain
CBS, 05.04.54
Welcome Stranger - with
Barry Fitzgerald
CBS, 18.01.55
Awful Truth - with
Irene Dunne
CBS, 01.03.55
The Bishop's Wife - repeat
The Circle
NBC, 15.01.39
A one-season radio show sponsored by
Kellogg's Corn Flakes. It futured unrestrained round-table discussion on everything from
current events to the arts. Master of ceremonies duties alternated between Ronald Colman,
Madeleine Carrol, Carole Lombard, Cary Grant and Groucho and Chico Marx. The show lasted
only a few months (it was canceled on the July 9, 1939) and became one of the most talked
about failures on the radio.
Screen Guild Theatre
30.04.39
Alone in Paris - with
Irene Dunne
Hollywood British Colony
Broadcast
06.39
When British King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth visited the United States, they attended a picnic at the Hyde Park estate of
President Franklin Roosvelt. To coincide with the picnic, actors in Hollywood's British
colony (including David Niven, Laurence Olivier, Vivein Leight, Erroll Flynn, Ronald
Colman and Cary Grant) ttok part in a live broadcast for the occasion.
Gulf Screen Guild Theatre
24.09.39
Grant made a guest appearance along
with Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and Ann Sothern. Stars were not paid for their
appearances, but their fees were given to Motion Picture Relief Fund to build a home for
those stars who could no longer take care of themself
Silver Theatre
CBS, ca. 1939
Wings in the Dark
CBS, ca. 1939
Romeo and Juliette - with
Irene Dunne
Radio Guild Air Show
11.02.40
Grant substitutes for William Powell
Suspense
CBS, 17.06.42
Program was known as the actor's
theatre and billed as "radio's outstanding theatre of thrills"
CBS, 16.11.50
On a Country Road - with
Cathy Lewis
CBS, 31.11.44
The Black Curtain
Ceiling Unlimited
CBS, 09.11.42 through 1944
A series of patriottic dramas centering
around aviation. Original 15-minute programs were written, directed and produced by Orson
Welles who for several months. It was narrated by Patrick McGeehan and sponsored by
Lockheed Vega. It moved from Monday evening to Sundays the second year and expanded to
thirty minutes. Grant appeared in "Island in the Sky" as Major
Robert Scott on May 24, 1943 and in "Where from Here" on May
31, 1943
War Bond Speech
26.04.43
Front Line Theatre
29.11.43
Theodora Goes Wild - with
Irene Dunne
The Abbot and Costello Program
NBC, 06.04.44
The Doctor Fights
CBS, 06.06.44 and summer 1945
This program saluted wartime doctors
and was sponsored by the manufacturers of penicillin. It starred Raymond Massey
Hollywood Startime
Blue Network, 1944
Lunchtime show featured interviews with
stars eating at the RKO commissary
CBS, 06.01.46
Sunday afternoon drama series sponsored
by Frigidaire. Grant appeared in "Talk of the Town" with
Herbert Marshall and Marguerite Chapman
Academy Award Theatre
CBS, 31.10.46
This series condensed suspense movies
which were either Oscar nominees or winners. For "Suspicion"
the program used Grant and Ann Todd
Theatre of Romance
CBS, 1944-1946
Originally broadcast from New York,
this series futured romantic stories and "stars of proven romantic appeal". It
moved to Hollywood in 1945 and was sponsored by Colgate
The Dinah Shore Show
NBC, ca. 1945
Command Performance
14.08.45
Victory Extra
Maxwell House Coffee Time
16.10.47
Grant appeared with George Burns and
Gracie Allen. Gracie played Grant's secretary to Bea Benaderet's movie Columnist
30.10.47
Guest appearance with Hans Conried and
Gale Gordon
Uplift Society
13.11.47
Guest appearance in a parody of
Hollywood social life
Kraft Music Hall
04.03.49
Guest appearance with Al Jolson, Oscar
Levant, Ken Carpenter and Lou Bring and his Orchestra
Screen Directors Playhouse
NBC, 01.07.49
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - with Frances Robinson
NBC, 21.01.50
Mr. Lucky
NBC, 09.11.50
Shadow of a Doubt - with
Betsy Drake
NBC, 17.12.50
My Favorite Wife - with
Irene Dunne
Radiothon
1970s
Grant appeared in this radiothon for
the Leukemia Foundation playing the part of a concerned parent asking a doctor questions
about leukemia
Mr. and Mrs. Blandings
NBC, 21.01.51 to 08.51
After the succes of Grant's film, it
was decided taht a radio show based on the movie and starring Grant and his wife might be
successful too. On January 21, 1951 the program first aired on NBC during its Sunday night
time slot. Unfornately, the critics were not enthusiastic and the review were not good.
Grant blamed the show's problems on poor writings, and turned down many scripts until he
found an acceptable one -- one written by his wife. Sponsored by Trans World Airlines, the
show never caught on, and was canceled less than a year later. |
