THEATER GUILD ON THE AIR

OLD TIME RADIO - 2 mp3 CD - 79 Shows - Total Playtime: 75:40:27

The series originated on radio in the 1940s as Theatre Guild on the Air. Organized in 1919 to improve the quality of American theater, the Theatre Guild first experimented with radio productions in Theatre Guild Dramas, a CBS series which ran from December 6, 1943 to February 29, 1944.
Actress-playwright Armina Marshall (1895-1991), a co-administrator of the Theatre Guild, headed the Guild's newly created Radio Department, and in 1945, Theatre Guild on the Air embarked on its ambitious plan to bring Broadway Theater to radio with leading actors in major productions. It premiered September 9, 1945, on ABC with Burgess Meredith, Henry Daniell and Cecil Humphreys in Wings Over Europe, a play by Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne which the Theatre Guild had staged on Broadway in 1928-29.

Within a year the series drew some 10 to 12 million listeners each week. Presenting both classic and contemporary plays, the program was broadcast for eight years before it became a television series.

Playwrights adapted to radio ranged from Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde to Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams with numerous Broadway and Hollywood actors in the casts, including Ingrid Bergman, Ronald Colman, Bette Davis, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Katharine Hepburn, Gene Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Agnes Moorehead and Basil Rathbone. Even John Gielgud was heard, in his famous role of Hamlet, in an expanded 90-minute broadcast with Dorothy McGuire as Ophelia. Fredric March was also heard in his only performance as Cyrano de Bergerac, a role he played neither onstage or onscreen. The series even featured a rarity - the only radio broadcast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's flop musical, Allegro. The radio series was broadcast until June 7, 1953, when the United States Steel Corporation decided to move its show to television.
 

SHOWS LIST

Theater Guild on the Air 45 09 09 001 Wings over Europe
Theater Guild on the Air 45 09 16 002 Jacobowsky and the Colonel
Theater Guild on the Air 45 09 30 004 The Guardsman
Theater Guild on the Air 45 10 07 005 Ah, Wilderness
Theater Guild on the Air 45 10 21 007 Sing Out Sweet Land
Theater Guild on the Air 45 10 28 008 At Mrs Beam's 1
Theater Guild on the Air 45 11 11 010 Emperor Jones Where the Cross Is Made
Theater Guild on the Air 45 11 25 012 Mornings at Seven
Theater Guild on the Air 45 12 02 013 Elizabeth, the Queen
Theater Guild on the Air 45 12 09 014 Ned McCobb's Daughter
Theater Guild on the Air 45 12 16 015 The Royal Family 1
Theater Guild on the Air 45 12 23 016 Little Women
Theater Guild on the Air 45 12 30 017 Knickerbocker Holiday
Theater Guild on the Air 46 01 06 018 Three Men on a Horse
Theater Guild on the Air 46 01 13 019 The Silver Cord NoOpen
Theater Guild on the Air 46 02 03 022 The Second Man
Theater Guild on the Air 46 02 17 024 On Borrowed Time
Theater Guild on the Air 46 02 24 025 Dead End
Theater Guild on the Air 46 04 07 031 Strange Interlude Part 2
Theater Guild on the Air 46 04 14 032 Seven Keys to Baldpate NoEnd
Theater Guild on the Air 46 04 21 033 Green Pastures 1
Theater Guild on the Air 46 04 21 033 Green Pastures 2
Theater Guild on the Air 46 04 28 034 Mary of Scotland
Theater Guild on the Air 46 05 05 035 Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Theater Guild on the Air 46 05 12 036 Payment Deferred
Theater Guild on the Air 46 05 19 037 They Knew What They Wanted
Theater Guild on the Air 46 05 26 038 Boy Meets Girl
Theater Guild on the Air 46 06 02 039 Call It a Day
Theater Guild on the Air 46 09 15 041 You Cant Take It with You
Theater Guild on the Air 46 10 20 046 Green Goddess
Theater Guild on the Air 46 11 03 048 Last of Mrs Cheyney
Theater Guild on the Air 46 11 17 050 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Theater Guild on the Air 46 11 24 051 Burlesque
Theater Guild on the Air 46 12 01 052 A Bill of Divorcement
Theater Guild on the Air 46 12 15 054 The Old Maid
Theater Guild on the Air 46 12 22 055 Papa Is All
Theater Guild on the Air 47 01 05 057 The Great Adventure
Theater Guild on the Air 47 01 19 059 A Doll's House
Theater Guild on the Air 47 01 26 060 Men in White
Theater Guild on the Air 47 02 02 061 The Farmer Takes A Wife
Theater Guild on the Air 47 02 23 064 Blithe Spirit
Theater Guild on the Air 47 03 02 065 What Every Woman Knows
Theater Guild on the Air 47 03 09 066 No Time for Comedy
Theater Guild on the Air 47 03 23 068 The First Year
Theater Guild on the Air 47 03 30 069 Ladies in Retirement
Theater Guild on the Air 47 04 06 070 Still Life
Theater Guild on the Air 47 04 13 071 Importance of Being Earnest
Theater Guild on the Air 47 04 20 072 Age of Innocence
Theater Guild on the Air 47 04 27 073 Escape
Theater Guild on the Air 47 05 11 075 Macbeth
Theater Guild on the Air 47 10 12 087 Cyrano De Bergerac
Theater Guild on the Air 47 10 19 088 Lady in the Dark
Theater Guild on the Air 47 11 30 094 Old English
Theater Guild on the Air 47 12 14 096 The Corn Is Green
Theater Guild on the Air 48 09 19 122 For Love or Money
Theater Guild on the Air 48 11 21 131 The Winslow Boy
Theater Guild on the Air 48 12 26 136 Rip Van Winkle
Theater Guild on the Air 49 02 06 142 Beyond The Horizon
Theater Guild on the Air 49 02 27 145 Payment Deferred
Theater Guild on the Air 49 12 11 014 Street Scene
Theater Guild on the Air 50 11 05 048 Alice Adams
Theater Guild on the Air 50 11 19 050 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Theater Guild on the Air 50 12 24 055 David Copperfield
Theater Guild on the Air 50 12 31 056 State Fair
Theater Guild on the Air 51 01 07 057 The Third Man
Theater Guild on the Air 51 03 04 065 Hamlet
Theater Guild on the Air 51 09 16 080 The Glass Menagerie
Theater Guild on the Air 51 10 21 085 Pygmalion
Theater Guild on the Air 51 11 25 090 Allegro
Theater Guild on the Air 52 03 30 108 An Ideal Husband
Theater Guild on the Air 52 04 06 109 The Silver Whistle
Theater Guild on the Air 52 05 25 116 The Bishop Misbehaves
Theater Guild on the Air 52 11 16 127 All About Eve
Theater Guild on the Air 52 12 07 130 The Damask Cheek
Theater Guild on the Air 52 12 14 131 The House of Mirth
Theater Guild on the Air 52 12 28 133 The Unguarded Hour
Theater Guild on the Air 53 01 04 134 State Fair
Theater Guild on the Air 53 04 05 147 Great Expectations
Theater Guild on the Air 53 04 26 150 1984

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