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Four Star Playhouse aired on radio from NBC on Sunday nights at 8:00 PM for 13 episodes. Premiere episode was on 1949-07-03 and the final episode was 1949-09-25. The series was primarily an anthology type drama. The shows starred Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray, Loretta Young and Robert Cummings.

• Four Star Playhouse 49-07-24 (04) Third Girl from the Right.mp3
• Four Star Playhouse 49-08-14 (07) The Hunted.mp3
• Four Star Playhouse 49-08-21 (08) The Incredible Anna Lee.mp3
• Four Star Playhouse 49-08-28 (09) Corey.mp3
• Four Star Playhouse 49-09-04 (10) Surprise for the Professor.mp3
• Four Star Playhouse 49-09-11 (11) Paradise U S A.mp3

The series was brought back as Four Star Playhouse as a television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer Company; Bristol-Myers became an alternate sponsor when it became a weekly series in the fall of 1953. The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine.

For those not familiar with the name, this might help.

"Hi-Yo, Silver! A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty "Hi-Yo Silver"... The Lone Ranger! With his faithful Indian companion, Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains led the fight for law and order in the early West. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoof-beats of the great horse Silver. The Lone Ranger rides again!"

Fred Foy was the announcer for the Lone Ranger and the Green Hornet. Another voice from the golden age silenced.

Mr. Foy passed on December 22. He was 89.

I would like to wish all the members and visitors of Times Past a Merry Christmas. It is a wonderful time.

The Bing Crosby Show from December 20, 1953 on CBS sponsored by General Electric. The first tune is, "Adeste Fideles." Bing concludes with "White Christmas and "Silent Night." Bing Crosby, Ken Carpenter (announcer), John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra, Jud Conlon's Rhythmaires, Bill Morrow (producer, transcriber), Murdo McKenzie (producer, transcriber).

The Bing Crosby Show 531220 Ep52 Christmas Show (HQ)

I first made the acquaintance of Ann Blyth on the film set of the filming of Danger Signal (1945). Warner Bros had borrowed Ann for this film. But burring filming, Ann suffered a broken back in a sledding accident while briefly vacationing in Lake Arrowhead and her mother and aunt went to Lake Arrowhead for a week. Ann had to be replaced in the role. It was burring this time that, Ann and became friends I would push her around in that wheelchair day after day for over a year and a half in a back brace). It was also at that time I made the acquaintance of Charlie Marie Gordon we also have been friends for a very long time. After two years Ann got a cameo roll with Universal she was still her in her wheelchair-in Brute Force (1947).

It was a close friend, Charles K. Feldman, a talent agent since 1932, who first Introduced Me to Ann Blyth.

It was Feldman negotiated on behalf of Hawks to direct Sergeant York (1941), the Jesse L. Lasky independent production that became a box office smash. During World War II, Hawks and Feldman organized H-F Productions an independent company that acted more like a liaison with the studios to provide the director more creative leverage. H-F acquired talent and story properties, developed material, and then sold each project as a package to a studio, usually with Hawks as producer-director. Two Hawks successes at Warner Bros. originated in this manner, To Have and Have Not (1944) and The Big Sleep (1946).

On vacation in Lake Arrowhead wilh Ann Blyth these photos were taken before her sledding accident. (see my photo album( - ("My time behind a film camera"). Just a few of my still photos of Ann Blyth.