Old time radio show series available at RUSC Old Time Radio
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FIRST BROADCAST: October 13th 1934
LAST BROADCAST: June 7th 1955
SPONSORS: Lever Brothers for Lux Soap
HOST: Cecil B DeMille, William Keighley, Irving Cummings
ANNOUNCERS: Mel Ruick, John Milton Kennedy, Ken Carpenter
PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Anthony Stanford, Cecil B DeMille, Frank Woodruff, Fred MacKaye, Earl Ebi
WRITERS: Charles S Monroe, Sanford Barnett, Stanley Richards, Carroll Carroll, Ed James
SOUND EFFECTS: Max Uhlig, David Light, Walter Pierson, Charlie Forsyth
ORCHESTRA: Robert Armbruster, Louis Silvers, Rudy Schrager
Lux Radio Theatre – 1934-1955
This was one of few sixty-minute broadcasts and was the most important dramatic show in radio. The 931 episodes broadcast were all based on popular films with the biggest stars of Hollywood playing the parts and during its heyday the audience was estimated as high as forty million.
RUSC Old Time Radio (or RU Sitting Comfortably to give the site its full title) is a web site specializing in the wonderful world of old time radio. It is run by a crazy guy (that's me) who has nothing better to do than listen to old radio shows all day. To find out more visit the web site at www.rusc.com. All the old time radio shows on RUSC are understood to be in the public domain. RUSC has been on the web since January 1999 and is run on a not-for-profit basis.