Radio crime and mystery - Posts - Page 12

Happy Birthday, Raymond Chandler!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 23rd 2019

For all his success in the literary world, and then later in Hollywood, author Raymond Thornton Chandler was a lonely man.

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 20th 2019

It’s a bit of a stretch but try to imagine Verna Felton—the actress who appeared on Jack Benny’s radio/TV show as Dennis Da

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 5th 2019

One night in 1941, child actor Tommy Cook was determined to see the Republic cliffhanger serial Jungle Girl. You see, he h

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 9th 2019

At the time I borrowed Joseph Julian’s This Was Radio from my hometown public library as a kid, I wasn’t all that familiar

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 3rd 2019

Joe Friday: Room 5. That was the title of the script for a proposed TV pilot, written by Herb Ellis and Jack Webb, as 1948

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 7th 2019

A September 24, 1938 edition of Radio Guide describes a “radio first” executed by actress Alice Frost and Jack Johnstone, t