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The Seventh Veil - Radio Style
I haven't posted a radio show in a while, so there's no better time than the present.
Today's show comes from Lux Radio Theater, December 13, 1948 - the presentation of The Seventh Veil starring Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery. The show appears to be the same story released as a feature film in 1945 starring James Mason and Ann Todd. I haven't seen the film, so I'm unable to provide any comparisons of the two. However if you have, please let us know what you think.
One hour - 13.5 MB MP3
Since I don't care for witting story summaries, I'll just pull it from the radio show itself: the story of a musician and the man who loves and dominates her. Now get listening!
Today's show comes from Lux Radio Theater, December 13, 1948 - the presentation of The Seventh Veil starring Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery. The show appears to be the same story released as a feature film in 1945 starring James Mason and Ann Todd. I haven't seen the film, so I'm unable to provide any comparisons of the two. However if you have, please let us know what you think.
One hour - 13.5 MB MP3
Since I don't care for witting story summaries, I'll just pull it from the radio show itself: the story of a musician and the man who loves and dominates her. Now get listening!
Monday, August 25, 2008
The Class of 1923
As a teen, Henry Montgomery, Jr. attended the Pawling School for Boys in Pawling, New York. The school still exists today as Trinity-Pawling School.
Now here's where I get confused. A couple of sources I'm looking at to write this post note he moved to New York City in 1922. Logic would say Class of 1923 meant he was still at the school until that graduating year. His father died in 1922.
Roughly in this 1922-24 time period, Bob also took on the famed "riches to rags" descent to become a worker on a Standard Oil tanker. In September of 1924, he would act in his first play, The Mask and the Face.
If I did my math correctly, Bob is around 19 in the below class photo. Can you pick him out?
Now here's where I get confused. A couple of sources I'm looking at to write this post note he moved to New York City in 1922. Logic would say Class of 1923 meant he was still at the school until that graduating year. His father died in 1922.
Roughly in this 1922-24 time period, Bob also took on the famed "riches to rags" descent to become a worker on a Standard Oil tanker. In September of 1924, he would act in his first play, The Mask and the Face.
If I did my math correctly, Bob is around 19 in the below class photo. Can you pick him out?
Many thanks to "CM Staff Researcher" Tracy for digging this up. Of course, I have no real staff (or payroll for that matter), but the title sure looks good!
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Thursday, August 21, 2008
The Name's The Same - 1953
Thanks to the kindness of la peregrina, I was able to obtain a copy of the ever elusive episode of The Name's The Same with Robert Montgomery. If I knew what the heck I was doing with video, I'd post this on YouTube, but until then, it's screen caps.
Just to give you a 101 on The Name's The Same, it's similar to What's My Line, another famous TV game show of the 1950s. Name offers a contestant with the same name of a famous person, object, or action. A panel of three asks questions until they guess correctly or time out.
This episode, from February 10, 1953 offers two Bobs - the younger being a Boy Scout:
The panel has to guess the boy's name...
Bob with show host Robert Q. Lewis
Battle of the horn rimmed glasses
Oliver J. Dragon of the kids show Kukla, Fran and Ollie
Just to give you a 101 on The Name's The Same, it's similar to What's My Line, another famous TV game show of the 1950s. Name offers a contestant with the same name of a famous person, object, or action. A panel of three asks questions until they guess correctly or time out.
This episode, from February 10, 1953 offers two Bobs - the younger being a Boy Scout:
The panel has to guess the boy's name...
Bob with show host Robert Q. Lewis
Battle of the horn rimmed glasses
They just had to swap glasses. Of all things coming to mind, I'm wonder what color the glasses are. Yeah, probably black.
Name often included a segment with a celebrity - "I'd like to be." In this case, Bob wishes he could be...
Oliver J. Dragon of the kids show Kukla, Fran and Ollie
In the end, panelist Meredith Wilson guessed correctly. The other two panelists - well, they wrote out their checks for $25 to Bob, who donated the funds to young Bob's Boy Scout troop. In the meantime, I keep watching this darned addictive show and have found myself crying in laughter a few times as a result.
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