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  1. Romeo and Juliet (1956 Radio)

    Series
    The Charlie McCarthy Show
    Director
    Sam Pierce

    Radio variety show. Edgar Bergen and Shirley Yamaguchi perform the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet.

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  2. Shakespeare on the Radio (1951 Radio)

    Series
    Magnificent Montague, The
    Director
    Nat Hiken
    Producer
    Nat Hiken

    Radio sitcom. Edwin Montague plays Monty Woolley, an accomplished Shakespearean actor who, unappreciated and unemployed, accepts a role in a sentimental daytime radio serial. In this episode, Monty’s...

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  3. Tuba or Not Tuba, That is the Question (1951 Radio)

    aka: Tuba Player, The

    Series
    Saint, The
    Director
    Helen Mack

    Radio crime drama series featuring the character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris. The title of the episode is quoted by Templar (Price) when explaining to the taxi driver and friend why they are...

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  4. Previewed Crime, The (1950 Radio)

    Series
    Saint, The
    Director
    Helen Mack

    Radio crime drama series featuring the character Simon Templar created by Leslie Charteris. In this episode there is a Hamlet riff when Templar’s friend Desmond says that the last murder of interest to him...

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  5. I Always Marry Juliet (1948 Radio)

    Series
    Quiet, Please
    Director
    Wyllis Cooper

    Radio drama anthology series. The story, written and directed by Wyllis Cooper, tells of an old Shakespearean actor, Rambeau Bainbridge (Chappell), who specialises in playing Romeo. He has the habit of...

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  6. School Play, The (1948 Radio)

    Series
    Meet the Meeks
    Producer
    Les Weinrodt

    Radio comedy series. This episode focuses on a school production of Romeo and Juliet. Michael P. Jensen (op cit) observes ‘This truly dreadful program is a strange combination of comedy and soap...

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  7. Kraft Music Hall, The [12/02/1948] (1948 Radio)

    Series
    Kraft Music Hall, The

    Radio variety show. In this edition the guest, Charles Laughton, coaches the series host Al Jolson in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet. The jokes revolve around Laughton’s British accent and...

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  8. Edgar Bergen and Charles McCarthy Show [09/11/1947] (1947 Radio)

    Series
    Edgar Bergen and Charles McCarthy Show, The
    Director
    Earl Ebi

    Series featuring ventiloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charley McCarthy. Charley and his chums plan to stage Romeo and Juliet in a barn but they need a star name to bring in the crowds so they ask Maurice...

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  9. Carmen (1946 Radio)

    Series
    Fred Allen Show, The
    Director
    Howard Riley

    Radio comedy series written by and starring Fred Allen. Maurice Evans and Allen joke about the misfit between lowbrow radio and highbrow culture (Shakespeare). Evans performs an extract from the ghost scene...

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  10. Sam and Psyche (1946 Radio)

    Series
    Adventures of Sam Spade, The
    Director
    William Spier
    Producer
    William Spier

    Radio series about private detective Sam Spade, a character created by Dashiell Hammett in his novel The Maltese Falcon. A psychiatrist named Doctor Denoff comes to Spade (Howard Duff) when a blackmailer...

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