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"Enjoy sixteen of the greatest programs from radio's golden age and the Hollywood celebrities that starred in them. Nostalgia radio had incredible comedy, mystery, detective, western, sci-fi, musical, and drama shows that kept Americans glued to their radio sets. Families gathered around their living room radios to hear their favorite Hollywood stars in fully-dramatized broadcasts that entertained millions. In this collection of sixteen episodes, you'll hear ""Richard Diamond, Private Detective"" with Dick Powell, ""Suspense,"" starring Gregory Peck, ""The Charlie McCarthy Show"" with Edgar Bergan and Robert Cummings, ""You Bet Your Life"" with Groucho Marx, ""The Bickersons"" with Lew Parker and Frances Langford, ""The Great Gildersleeve"" with Hal Peary, and many more! The Adv. of Ellery Queen 11/7/45 The Message in Red w/ Sydney SmithThe Bickersons 6/12/51 The Mink Coat w/ Lew Parker and Frances LangfordThe Charlie McCarthy Show 1953 w/ guest, Robert CummingsDavid Harding, Counterspy 6/22/50 The Case of the Frozen FortuneDuffy's Tavern 11/2/45 w/ guest Dame Mae WittyThe Fred Allen Show 1/13/46 w/ guest, Maurice EvansThe Great Gildersleeve 11/22/42 Thanksgiving Show - ""B"" Ration BookLife With Luigi 1/29/52 High Standard of Living w/ J. Carrol NaishThe Line-Up 5/29/51 The Hiccupping Hamster Homeostatic Case w/ Bill JohnstoneMolle' Mystery Theater 3/8/46 Red Wine w/ Ken Lynch and Richard WidmarkMr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons 11/7/52 Murder and the Prize-winning Bull w/ Phillip ClarkeThe Phil Harris & Alice Faye Show 12/25/51 Phil's Golf GameRichard Diamond, Private Detective 1/11/52 The White Cow Case w/ Dick PowellSuspense 3/21/46 The Lonely Road w/ Gregory PeckTwo Thousand Plus 11/15/50 Alone You Bet Your Life 2/3/58 Secret Word: Chair w/ Groucho Marx"

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CBS Radio, Inc. is one of the largest major-market broadcast media operators in the United States and the undisputed leader in news and sports radio. Producing original audio and video content, live events, and exclusive programming broadcast via on-air, online, and mobile platforms, CBS Radio reaches more than 72 million consumers nationwide each week. As a part of CBS Corporation, the division owns and operates 117 radio stations in 26 markets. CBS Radio, Inc. is one of the largest major-market broadcast media operators in the United States and the undisputed leader in news and sports radio. Producing original audio and video content, live events, and exclusive programming broadcast via on-air, online, and mobile platforms, CBS Radio reaches more than 72 million consumers nationwide each week. As a part of CBS Corporation, the division owns and operates 117 radio stations in 26 markets. Eldred Gregory Peck (1916-2003) was an American actor. He was one of the most popular movies stars of the 1940s through the 1960s. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Atticus Finch in the 1962 drama To Kill a Mockingbird. Dick Powell (1904-1963) was a popular actor and singer who later became an Academy Award-winning director and producer for both television and movies. Though he came to stardom as a musical comedy performer, he began acting in romantic leading man roles, but in 1944, his career changed dramatically when he was cast in the first of a series of noir films as private detective Philip Marlowe. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Harold Peary, a talented singer as a child, later went into radio in 1925. He had his own radio show by 1929 and got his big break in 1935 when he was cast as Throckmorton Gildersleeve in the Fibber McGee and Molly show. In 1939 Peary was making a personal appearance in a theater promoting the Fibber McGee and Molly show and casually did what would be his trademark giggle. It caught on with the audience, and Peary made it part of the Gildersleeve character. Peary eventually got his own radio show, The Great Gildersleeve, which debuted in 1941 and ran for seventeen years, one of the longest-running comedies in radio history. He went on to make numerous feature films, four of them based on The Great Gildersleeve radio show. His career in films tapered off by the fifties, but he became busy in television and records in that decade. His last film appearance was in 1964, and his television appearances continued into the early seventies.

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