Christmas Party (Aired December 22, 1947)
My Friend Irma, created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard, was a top-rated, long-run radio situation comedy, so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated to films and television, while Howard scored with another radio comedy hit, Life with Luigi. Dependable and level-headed Jane Stacy (Cathy Lewis) narrated the misadventures of her innocent and bewildered roommate, Irma Peterson (Marie Wilson), a dim-bulb stenographer. Wilson portrayed the character on radio, in two films and a TV series. The successful radio series with Marie Wilson ran on CBS Radio from April 11, 1947 to August 23, 1954. The TV version, seen on CBS from January 8, 1952 until June 25, 1954, was the first series telecast from the CBS Television City facility in Hollywood. The movie My Friend Irma (1949) starred Marie Wilson and Diana Lynn but is mainly remembered today for introducing Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis to moviegoers, resulting in even more screen time for Martin and Lewis in the sequel, My Friend Irma Goes West (1950).
THIS EPISODE:
December 22, 1947. CBS network. Sponsored by: Swan Soap, Spry. It's Christmas Eve and Irma's going to spend it all alone! The script was subsequently reused on "My Friend Irma" on December 20, 1948, on December 26, 1949, on December 25, 1950, on December 23, 1951, December 23, 1952 and December 22, 1953. Marie Wilson, John Brown, Cathy Lewis, Gloria Gordon, Hans Conried. 1/2 hour.
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