Tuesday, July 09, 2024
The Adventures Of Maisie - "The Maharani Mix-Up" (06-29-50)
The Maharani Mix-Up (Aired June 29, 1950)
Maisie, the first in 1939, was from the book "Dark Dame" by the writer Wilson
Collison,who did decades of scripting for the silver screen along with Broadway
plays and magazine fiction. From the first, MGM wanted Ann Sothern to play
Maisie. She began in Hollywood as an extra in 1927. "Maisie and I were just
together - I just understood her," Sothern, born Harriette Arlene Lake, said
after several of the films made her a star. Throughout the 1930s and '40s, Ann
Sothern and Lucille Ball, like many performers in Hollywood, had not one but two
careers - one in motion pictures and one on radio. MGM Studios had created the
series of ten motion pictures based on a brash blonde with a heart "of spun
gold." Sothern, due in great part to the Maisie films type-casting, would
ultimately admit she was "a Hollywood princess, not a Hollywood queen." But in
its time, the Maisie series in film and on radio made her known and loved the
world over.
THIS EPISODE:
48446. The Adventures Of Maisie. May 24, 1951 (1950). Program #67. MGM
syndication. Sponsored by: Commercials added locally. Maisie gets a soap opera
actress to help the son of a Maharajah marry the actress' American girlfriend.
The program has also been identified as program #79. The date above is the date
of first broadcast on WMGM, New York City. Ann Sothern, Robert Cole, Bud
Hiestand (announcer), Harry Zimmerman (composer, conductor), Hy Averback
(announcer), John L. Green (writer), Lurene Tuttle, Peter Leeds, Ted de Corsia.
27:27. Episode Notes From Radio Gold Index.
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