The Chase & Sanborn Hour - Special Guest Is Joan Blondell (08-13-39)

Special Guest Is Joan Blondell (Aired August 13, 1939) Chase and Sanborn found a gold mine with a wooden dummy when Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy began an 11-year run, starting May 9, 1937. Initially this incarnation of the program also featured as regulars master of ceremonies Don Ameche, singers Dorothy Lamour and Nelson Eddy, and (for the first few weeks) comedian W.C. Fields, accompanied by a different guest star each week. Perhaps the most infamous of the latter was Mae West, whose appearance on the program of December 12, 1937 was highlighted with a sexually suggestive "Adam and Eve" sketch that caused a public outcry and resulted in West being banned from the radio airwaves for many years thereafter.Beginning January 7, 1940, the regular cast apart from Bergen and McCarthy were dropped and the show was cut to a half-hour and retitled The Chase and Sanborn Program. Also beginning in 1940, the program would go on hiatus for a number of weeks each summer. THIS EPISODE: August 13, 1939. "Special Guest Is Joan Blondell" - Red network. Sponsored by: Chase and Sanborn Coffee. The first tune is, "Where Else But Here?" Charlie is planning a hiking trip. The local commercial cutaways are heard at 20 and 54 minutes into the program. Guest Joan Blondell and Don appear in a Hollywood comedy, "Stardust," by Cyril Kramer. A few seconds have been deleted from the drama. "Vera Vague" lectures about travel to England. Charlie stages his own version of "Stardust," called, "Fishing Prohibited," or "No Casting Today." Don Ameche (host), Edgar Bergen, Robert Armbruster and His Orchestra, Dorothy Lamour, Nelson Eddy (returning to the program), William Spargrove (commercial spokesman, East Coast), Joan Blondell, Cyril Kramer (writer), Barbara Jo Allen, Jim Bannon (announcer). 59:29. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.