Vintage Classic Radio

Holiday Edition - The Screen Guild Theater: Holiday Inn - Bing Crosby & Dinah Shore

Vintage Classic Radio presents special Christmas classics from the golden age of radio for the 2022 Holiday season.
Description: Screen Guild Players present musical highlights from Paramount Pictures’ tuneful film Holiday Inn starring Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy and Dinah Shore as Linda Mason. Songs include White Christmas and Happy Holiday. This is a delightful radio adaptation of the Columbia Pictures holiday based on the play by Philip Barry. Joseph Cotten plays the part of Johnny Case who is betrothed to a millionaires daughter Linda played by Loretta Young.
Original release: January 11th, 1943
Home station: CBS
Cast:
Bing Crosby
Fred Astaire
Dinah Shore
Loretta Young
Joseph Cotten

Holiday Edition - Lux Radio Theater: It’s A Wonderful Life - James Stewart & Donna Reed

Vintage Classic Radio presents special Christmas classics from the golden age of radio for the 2022 Holiday season.
Description: Starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey in this classic Christmas radio drama about a man who gives up his dreams to help others but tired of life and with the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence, George is shown what life would be like for the townspeople of Bedford Falls if he had never existed.
The Lux Radio Theater recording was the first of three radio adaptations from the 1946 Frank Capra-directed film. The second radio adaptation was recorded by Screen Guild Theater in December 1947. The third was recorded by Screen Director's Playhouse in 1949. Jimmy Stewart reprises his role as George Bailey in all three radio adaptations.
Original release: March 10th, 1947
Home station: CBS
Cast:
Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey
Donna Reed as Mary Hatch Bailey
Victor Moore as Clarence the Guardian Angel
Bill Johnstone as Pa Bailey
Janet as Ma Bailey
John McIntire as Joseph
Leo Cleary as Uncle Billy
Edwin Maxwell as Potter
John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)
William Keighley (Producer/Host)

Holiday Edition - Lux Radio Theater: Miracle on 34th Street - Maureen O’Hara

Vintage Classic Radio presents special Christmas classics from the golden age of radio for the 2022 Holiday season.
Description: Starring Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn and John Payne in this radio adaptation of the 1948 film about a Macy's department store Santa who believes he is the real Kris Kringle. He encounters a mother and daughter duo skeptical about the holidays and manages to warm their hearts and inspire them to get into the Christmas spirit.
Maureen O'Hara, John Payne and Edmund Gwenn reprise their film roles in this popular Lux Radio Theater adaptation.
There were 5 radio adaptations of this film; Three were recorded by Lux Radio Theatre (1947 with Natalie Wood as Susan the daughter also in the film, this 1948 recording without and also in 1954) and two recorded by Screen Director's Playhouse (1949 and 1950). Edmund Gwenn reprises his role in all 5 radio adaptations.
Original release: December 20th, 1948
Home station: CBS
Cast:
Maureen O'Hara as Doris Walker
Susan her daughter (actor unknown)
John Payne as Fred Gailey
Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle
John Milton Kennedy (Announcer)
Libby Collins (Second Announcer)
William Keighley (Producer/Host)

Holiday Edition - The Campbell Playhouse: A Christmas Carol - Orson Welles

Vintage Classic Radio presents special Christmas classics from the golden age of radio for the 2022 Holiday season.
Description: Starring Orson Welles, this definitive edition of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol' almost never came to be. Welles was filling in for an ill Lionel Barrymore who was unable to make it to New York City for the broadcast. The Campbell Playhouse radio drama series ran from 1938-1940, directed by and starring Orson Welles. They were hour-long radio adaptations of plays, books and popular films. The series was continued from the previous, 'The Mercury Theatre on the Air'.
Original release: December 23rd, 1938
Home station: CBS
Cast:
Orson Welles
William Alland
Georgia Backus
Edgar Barrier
Bea Benaderet
Ray Collins
Joseph Cotten
George Coulouris
Arlene Francis
Alice Frost
Helen Hayes
Sam Levene
Agnes Moorehead
Frank Readick
Everett Sloane
Paul Stewart
Virginia Welles
Richard Wilson
Eustace Wyatt