Hi guys and welcome back to the mystery and comedy Old time radio podcast please welcome to the Ms Eve Arden in the CBS comedy show Our Ms brooks.Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, at the time CBS\'s West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was committed to My Favorite Husband and did not audition. CBS then-chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script—Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president, but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal—Arden agreed to give the newly revamped show a try.Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on CBS on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very \"feline\" in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast—blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, and scheming Miss Enright—also received positive reviews.
Jeff Chandler played Boynton and stayed with the role for five years, even after becoming a movie star. He ultimately resigned because it was too exhausting to juggle a regular radio role with his film commitments.Others in the cast included Anne Whitfield as Conklin\'s daughter, Harriet. Arden won a radio listeners\' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top-ranking comedienne of 1948–49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. \"I\'m certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you\'ve bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton\", she joked. She was also a hit with the critics: a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year\'s best radio comedienne.For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo, and Toni hair-care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended. I hope you guys enjoy Miss Eve Arden in the CBS comedy show our Miss Brooks. and join me later on tonight guys as I bring to the show back by popular demand Mr Edward g Robertson in two episodes chill our spines. also guys join me this coming Friday as I bring back to the show Miss Maire Wilson and Kathy Lewis and the CBS comedy show my friend Irma. join me in the coming weeks guys as they bring such stars as Miss Agnes moorehead, Mr Bob Hope and famous child actress Ms Margaret O\'Brien. and also guys stay tuned for my Thanksgiving part 2 episode. and remember to comment and subscribe and also guys always remember to enjoy the show thanks.
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