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The Halls of Ivy was an NBC radio sitcom that ran from 1949-1952. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's It was created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn before being adapted into a CBS television comedy (1954-55) produced by ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America. Fibber McGee and Molly was a radio show that played a major role in determining the full form of what became classic old-time radio. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The Incorporated Television Company (ITC is a British television company largely involved in production and distribution Television Programs of America Inc (TPA was a New York -based US television production company in the 1950s British husband-and-wife actors Ronald Colman and Benita Hume starred in both versions of the show. Ronald Colman ( February 9 1891 &ndash May 19 1958) was an English Academy Award and Golden Globe -winning actor

Quinn developed the show after he had decided to leave Fibber McGee & Molly in the hands of his protege Phil Leslie. The Halls of Ivy's audition program featured radio veteran Gale Gordon (then co-starring in Our Miss Brooks) and Edna Best in the roles that ultimately went to the Colmans, who'd shown a flair for radio comedy in recurring roles on The Jack Benny Program in the late 1940s. Gale Gordon ( February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor Our Miss Brooks, an American Situation comedy, starred Eve Arden as a sardonic High school English Teacher. Edna Best ( March 3, 1900 – September 18, 1974) was a British actress. The Jack Benny Program, starring Jack Benny, was a radio-TV comedy series which ran for more than three decades and is generally regarded as a high-water mark in 20th-century

The Halls of Ivy featured Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends and college trustees. Others in the cast included Herbert Butterfield as testy board chairman Clarence Wellman; Willard Waterman (then starring as Harold Peary's successor as The Great Gildersleeve) as board member John Merriweather; and, Elizabeth Patterson and Gloria Gordon as the Halls' maid. Willard Waterman (b Willard Lewis Waterman, August 29, 1914 in Madison Wisconsin; d Harold (Hal Peary (born Harrold José Pereira de Faria, July 25, 1908 – March 30, 1985) an American Actor The Great Gildersleeve (1941-1957 initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson was one of broadcast history's earliest Spin-off programs

The series ran 110 half-hour radio episodes from January 6, 1950 to June 25, 1952, with Quinn, Jerome Lawrence, and Robert Lee writing most of the scripts and giving free if even more sophisticated play to Quinn's knack for language play, inverted cliches and swift puns (including the show's title and lead characters), a knack he'd shown for years writing Fibber McGee & Molly. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 524 - Battle of Vézeronce, the Franks defeat the Burgundians Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee continued as a writing team; their best-known play is Inherit the Wind. Inherit the Wind is a play by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, which opened on Broadway in January 1955 a 1960

Cameron Blake, Walter Brown Newman, Robert Sinclair, and Milton and Barbara Merlin became writers for the program as well. Walter Newman ( 11 February 1916 – 14 October 1993) was an American radio writer and Screenwriter active from the late But listeners were surprised to discover that the episode of 27 September 1950, "The Leslie Hoff Painting," a story tackling racial prejudice, was written by Colman himself.

The sponsors were Schlitz Brewing Company and then Nabisco. Nabisco (originally known as Na tional Bis cuit Co mpany is a brand of Cookies and Snacks including brands such as Chips Ahoy! Nat Wolff produced and directed, Henry Russell handled the music and radio veteran Ken Carpenter was the announcer.

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For the television series, the Colmans and Butterfield repeated their radio roles with Mary Wickes portraying Alice and Ray Collins. Mary Wickes ( June 13, 1910 – October 22, 1995) was an American Film and Television Actress. Ray Collins may refer to Ray Collins (actor (1889-1965 Ray Collins (baseball (1887-1970 Ray Collins (football player The TV version premiered 19 October 1954 and ran for 38 half-hour black-and-white episodes. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 1954 ( MCMLIV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1954 Gregorian calendar) Many TV episodes are missing, to the degree that some credits and episode titles are unknown.

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