In Breaking Walls episode 140, we examine the under-appreciated radio career of the one and only Humphrey Bogart.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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