BW - EP140: Humphrey Bogart On The Air (1935 - 1952)

In Breaking Walls episode 140, we examine the under-appreciated radio career of the one and only Humphrey Bogart. —————————— Highlights: • The Broadway Kid • Lux Presents Hollywood • High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon • Bogie with Hope, Benny, and Vallée • Casablanca • Suspense, Lauren Bacall, and Command Performance • Staying at Home for More Radio • HUAC • Fatherhood and Bold Venture • The African Queen and The Academy Award • The Final Years • Looking Ahead to July and Orson Welles —————————— The WallBreakers: http://thewallbreakers.com Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts. To support the show: http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers —————————— The reading material for today’s episode was: • Lauren Bacall By Myself — By Lauren Bacall • Humphrey Bogart — By Alan G. Barbour • On The Air — By John Dunning • Bogart: A Life in Hollywood — By Jeffrey Meyers • Network Radio Ratings — By Jim Ramsburg • Bogart — By A.M. Sperber & Eric Lax As well as articles from: • The Chicago Sun-Times • The New York Times • Variety —————————— On the interview front: • Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall spoke with Edward R. Murrow in 1954 • Humphrey Bogart and John Huston spoke to George Fisher • Humphrey Bogart also spoke to Ed Sullivan • Morton Fine spoke with Dan Haefele for SPERDVAC in 1988 • Howard Duff and William Spier spoke to Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Here these interviews at GoldenAge-WTIC.org • Lurene Tuttle spoke to Chuck Schaden. Here this chat at SpeakingOfRadio.com • Ingrid Bergman spoke to the CBC • William Holden spoke to Dick Cavett —————————— Selected music featured in today’s episode was: • Manhattan Serenade — By Richard Alden • As Time Goes By — By Herman Hupfeld • Danse Macabre — By Camille Saint-Saëns —————————— A special thank you to Ted Davenport, Jerry Haendiges, and Gordon Skene. For Ted go to RadioMemories.com, for Jerry, visit OTRSite.com, and for Gordon, please go to PastDaily.com. —————————— Thank you to: Tony Adams Steven Allmon Orson Orsen Chandler Phil Erickson Jessica Hanna Perri Harper Thomas M. Joyce Ryan Kramer Earl Millard Gary Mollica Barry Nadler Christian Neuhaus Ray Shaw Filipe A Silva John Williams —————————— WallBreakers Links: Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers Social Media - @TheWallBreakers