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Abie's Irish Rose

Networks
NBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1943–1944
Episodes
4

(03 Episodes) "Abie's Irish Rose": January 24, 1942, NBC's WMAQ radio in Chicago aired the premier episode of "Abie's Irish Rose," a spin-off from a successful Broadway play (as well as movies) written by Ann Nichols. The story is of a good, Irish-Catholic girl who meets. falls in love with & marries a nice, Jersey-Jewish boy and the evolving culture clashes that result. Despite the popularity of the play, the movies, and the writing of this captivating radio program, the serial lasted only two years (1942-01-24 thru 1944-09-02).

More about it

Joe Rines directed the cast that starred Richard Bond, Sydney Smith, Richard Coogan and Clayton "Bud" Collyer as Abie Levy. Betty Winkler, Mercedes McCambridge, Julie Stevens and Marion Shockley portrayed Rosemary Levy. Solomon Levy was played by Alfred White, Charlie Cantor and Alan Reed.

Walter Kinsella (as Patrick Murphy), Menasha Skulnik (Isaac Cohen), Anna Appel (Mrs. Cohen), Ann Thomas (Casey), Bill Adams (Father Whelan), Amanda Randolph (maid) and Dolores Gillenas (as the Levy twins). The announcer was Howard Petrie, and Joe Stopak provided the music. Theme song for "Abie's Irish Rose was "My Wild Irish Rose." * SOURCE: Wikipedia OTR * def gp ddh

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Abie Buys A New Jersey Store (aka C144) (aka Chapter 144)

    · 27 min

  2. Levy's Department Store

    · 29 min

  3. Solomon Levy Dept Store (Poor Sound UNTIL 1m 36s)

    · 29 min

  4. Is Scarlet Fever at Looney Lake Lodge (aka Summer Hotel Owners) (aka #122 The Hotel)

    · No. 122 · 29 min

Where it comes from 2

The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. Abie's Irish Rose 03 Eps

    Old Time Radio · 3 episodes here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public Domain Mark 1.0: Marked Public Domain Mark 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

  2. Abie's Irish Rose

    Old Time Radio · 1 episode here · archive.org

    Uploader’s mark: Public domain (Creative Commons dedication): Marked Public domain (Creative Commons dedication) by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it.

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