Halls of Ivy - Jack Benny Visits Ivy College - Ronald & Bonita Coleman
The Chesterton Family Comedy Podcast
The Halls of Ivy is an American situation comedy that ran from 1950–52 on NBC radio, created by Fibber McGee & Molly co-creator/writer Don Quinn. The series was adapted into a CBS television comedy (1954–55) produced by ITC Entertainment and Television Programs of America. British husband-and-wife actors Ronald Colman and Benita Hume starred in both versions of the show.
Quinn developed the show after he had decided to leave Fibber McGee & Molly in the hands of his protégé 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 demonstrated a flair for radio comedy during the late 1940s recurring roles on The Jack Benny Program.
The Halls of Ivy featured Ronald Colman as William Todhunter Hall, the president of small, Midwestern Ivy College, and Benita Hume as his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes feels the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends, and college trustees. Others in the cast included Herb 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 Bea Benaderet, Elizabeth Patterson, and Gloria Gordon as the Halls' maids. Alan Reed (television's Fred Flintstone) appeared periodically as the stuffy English teacher, Professor Heaslip. Other actors who appeared included Virginia Gregg, Lee Patrick, Jean Vander Pyl, Rolfe Sedan, Sidney Miller, William Tracy, Sam Edwards, Arthur Q. Bryan, Barton Yarborough, James Gleason, Jerry Hausner and other actors.
The series ran 109 half-hour radio episodes from January 6, 1950, to June 25, 1952, with Quinn, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee writing many 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. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Lee continued as a writing team; their best-known play is Inherit the Wind. Cameron Blake, Walter Brown Newman, Robert Sinclair, and Milton and Barbara Merlin became writers for the program as well. (Wikipedia)
-
18:12:15
Chesterton Radio
10 months ago $4.63 earnedChesterton Radio Live - Mystery Drama Adventure - Chuck the TV!
43.4K -
2:59:48
Jewels Jones Live ®
1 day ago“TARGETING TRUMP’S LIFE” | A Political Rendezvous - Ep. 93
43.5K18 -
21:20
MYLUNCHBREAK CHANNEL PAGE
7 hours agoThe Palace in Dallas?
18.7K8 -
59:56
Trumpet Daily
1 day ago $2.68 earnedSwooning for Kamala Didn’t Work - Trumpet Daily | Sept. 27, 2024
22K17 -
1:05:58
Tate Speech by Andrew Tate
7 hours agoPETER PAN PEANUT BUTTER ALERT | EPISODE 11
118K81 -
26:51
Michael Franzese
22 hours agoThe Moment That Changed My Life Forever...
73.2K24 -
3:48:28
The Big Mig™
1 day agoRage Against The War Machine Live in Washington DC
59.6K19 -
1:41:25
Tactical Advisor
7 hours agoInaugural Show | Vault Room Podcast
58.1K7 -
2:00:13
I_Came_With_Fire_Podcast
17 hours ago"The Truth About China’s Hidden Influence: From Information Warfare to Military Power"
49.8K19 -
16:00
Josh Pate's College Football Show
2 days ago $0.09 earnedUGA vs Alabama - Josh Pate's Preview & Prediction
76.1K6