# Mae West Banned From Radio

Heard 1937. 1 episodes.

Mae West was a guest on the December 12, 1937 episode of The Chase and Sanborn Hour and played an unrepentant Eve in an "Adam and Eve" skit by Arch Oboler. It caused an uproar and the FCC found that it "violated the ethics of decency." NBC issued an apology during the next show (but I don't have that episode. Mae West didn't appear on the radio again until 1950. More in the google news archives: http://tinyurl.com/9tkqyyf

## Sets

- Mae West Banned From Radio (Old Time Radio): the Internet Archive states no licence or rights for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/MaeWestBannedFromRadio

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [Mae West](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/mae-west-banned-from-radio/69ba5c78e110), aired 12 December 1937 (56 min): https://archive.org/download/MaeWestBannedFromRadio/1937-12-12TheChaseAndSanbornHourEdgarBergenAndCharlieMccarthy.mp3

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is.