Life With Luigi - "Luigi's First Citizenship Papers" (01-10-50)

Luigi's First Citizenship Papers (Aired January 10, 1950)

 

INTRO: Bob Plays Nat King Cole "That Sunday, That Summer" (1963)

Life with Luigi was a radio comedy-drama series which began September 21, 1948 on CBS. The story concerned Italian immigrant Luigi Basco, and his experiences as an immigrant in Chicago. Many of the shows take place at the US citizenship classes that Luigi attends with other immigrants from different countries, as well as trying to fend off the repeated advances of the morbidly-obese daughter of his landlord/sponsor. Luigi was played by J. Carrol Naish, an Irish-American. Naish continued in the role on the short-lived television version in 1952, and was later replaced by Vito Scotti. With a working title of The Little Immigrant, Life with Luigi was created by Cy Howard, who earlier had created the hit radio comedy, My Friend Irma.

THIS EPISODE:

January 10, 1950. "Luigi's First Citizenship Papers" CBS network. Sponsored by: Wrigley's Spearmint Chewing Gum (one commercial apparently deleted). It's time for Luigi to get his first citizenship papers. J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed, Cy Howard (creator, producer), Mac Benoff (writer, director), Lou Derman (writer), Mary Shipp, Hans Conried, Joe Forte, Ken Peters, Alger Mackey (Deputy Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization, speaking from Washington, D. C.), Jody Gilbert, Sara Berner, Lud Gluskin (music director, Bob Stevenson (announcer). Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.