Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall do a send-up of The African Queen on THE BING CROSBY SHOW. We've also got more classic radio with Bogart and Bacall on their program BOLD VENTURE. And we finish out with Clem Kaddidlehopper and Junior, the Mean Little Kid on THE RED SKELTON SHOW.
Episode Segments:
Radio's Golden Age: The Bing Crosby Show BING CROSBY SHOW (3-12-52) Guests Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall join Bing for a spoof of Bogart’s film The African Queen. Chesterfield, CBS. (Read the article about Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in the Winter 2015 issue of Nostalgia Digest.)
BOLD VENTURE (6-18-51) Starring Humphrey Bogart as Slate Shannon and Lauren Bacall as Sailor Duval. A plantation owner asks Slate to save his daughter from the owner of a gambling boat. Syndicated.
Radio's Golden Age: The Red Skelton Show The conclusion of BOLD VENTURE followed by
RED SKELTON SHOW (2-11-47) “Taxi Cabs” are the topic in the Skelton Scrapbook of Satire, with Red as Willie Lump-Lump, Clem Kaddidlehopper and Junior, the Mean Little Kid. Raleigh Cigarettes, NBC.