Vintage Classic Radio

Vintage Classic Radio presents special Christmas classics from the golden age of radio for the 2022 Holiday season. Description: Screen Guild Players present musical highlights from Paramount Pictures’ tuneful film Holiday Inn starring Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy and Dinah Shore as Linda Mason. Songs include White Christmas and Happy Holiday. This is a delightful radio adaptation of the Columbia Pictures holiday based on the play by Philip Barry. Joseph Cotten plays the part of Johnny Case who is betrothed to a millionaires daughter Linda played by Loretta Young. Original release: January 11th, 1943 Home station: CBS Cast: Bing Crosby Fred Astaire Dinah Shore Loretta Young Joseph Cotten

Vintage Classic Radio presents special Christmas classics from the golden age of radio for the 2022 Holiday season. Description: Starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in this classic Christmas radio drama about a man who gives up his dreams to help others but tired of life and with the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence, George is shown what life would be like for the townspeople of Bedford Falls if he had never existed. The Lux Radio Theater recording was the first of three radio adaptations from the 1946 Frank Capra-directed film. The second radio adaptation was recorded by Screen Guild Theater in December 1947. The third was recorded by Screen Director's Playhouse in 1949. Jimmy Stewart reprises his role as George Bailey in all three radio adaptations. Original release: March 10th, 1947 Home station: CBS Cast: Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey Donna Reed as Mary Hatch Bailey Victor Moore as Clarence the Guardian Angel Bill Johnstone as Pa Bailey Janet as Ma Bailey John McIntire as Joseph Leo Cleary as Uncle Billy Edwin Maxwell as Potter John Milton Kennedy (Announcer) William Keighley (Producer/Host)

Vintage Classic Radio presents special Christmas classics from the golden age of radio for the 2022 Holiday season. Description: Starring Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn and John Payne in this radio adaptation of the 1948 film about a Macy's department store Santa who believes he is the real Kris Kringle. He encounters a mother and daughter duo skeptical about the holidays and manages to warm their hearts and inspire them to get into the Christmas spirit. Maureen O'Hara, John Payne and Edmund Gwenn reprise their film roles in this popular Lux Radio Theater adaptation. There were 5 radio adaptations of this film; Three were recorded by Lux Radio Theatre (1947 with Natalie Wood as Susan the daughter also in the film, this 1948 recording without and also in 1954) and two recorded by Screen Director's Playhouse (1949 and 1950). Edmund Gwenn reprises his role in all 5 radio adaptations. Original release: December 20th, 1948 Home station: CBS Cast: Maureen O'Hara as Doris Walker Susan her daughter (actor unknown) John Payne as Fred Gailey Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle John Milton Kennedy (Announcer) Libby Collins (Second Announcer) William Keighley (Producer/Host)

Vintage Classic Radio presents special Christmas classics from the golden age of radio for the 2022 Holiday season. Description: Starring Orson Welles, this definitive edition of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' almost never came to be. Welles was filling in for an ill Lionel Barrymore who was unable to make it to New York City for the broadcast. The Campbell Playhouse radio drama series ran from 1938-1940, directed by and starring Orson Welles. They were hour-long radio adaptations of plays, books and popular films. The series was continued from the previous, 'The Mercury Theatre on the Air'. Original release: December 23rd, 1938 Home station: CBS Cast: Orson Welles William Alland Georgia Backus Edgar Barrier Bea Benaderet Ray Collins Joseph Cotten George Coulouris Arlene Francis Alice Frost Helen Hayes Sam Levene Agnes Moorehead Frank Readick Everett Sloane Paul Stewart Virginia Welles Richard Wilson Eustace Wyatt