AMOS 'N ANDY (RADIO)
Summary
One in this comedy series about the misadventures of several friends living in Harlem, New York: Amos Jones, an honest, hard-working man blissfully married to Ruby; Andy Brown, a shiftless but good-natured fool; and George "Kingfish" Stevens, an enterprising schemer who often dupes Andy but cannot not outsmart his own sharp, strong-willed wife, Sapphire. All of these characters are portrayed by white actors who speak with outlandish, stereotypical "black" dialects. In this episode, Kingfish visits a marriage counselor and, through comic flashbacks, tells him the story of how a furtive venture into the laundry business got him into hot water with his wife Sapphire. The role of the counselor is portrayed by Robert Benchley, a Harvard-educated magazine editor-cum-comic actor, who was a member of New York's famed "Algonquin Round Table," and a close associate of doomed Manhattan literary doyenne Dorothy Parker. Includes commercials, promos, and public service announcements.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: December 17, 1943 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:29:30
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R79:0196
- GENRE: Radio - Comedy
- SUBJECT HEADING: Blackface comedy; Comedy; Ethnic humor; African-American Collection - Comedy
- SERIES RUN: NBC - Radio series, 1929-1939, 1943-1948
- COMMERCIALS:
- Radio - Commercials - Rinso laundry soap
- Radio - Commercials - Vimms Vitamins
- Radio - PSA - Save meat fat so that it can be turned into ammunition, explosives, and miracle sulphur drugs for the war effort.
- Radio - Promos - "A Christmas Carol" with Lionel Barrymore on December 22.
- Radio - Promos - "Amos 'N' Andy" Christmas Show with Paul Taylor Chorus.
CREDITS
- Joe Connelly … Executive Producer
- Bob Mosher … Executive Producer
- Andrew Love … Director
- Harlow Wilcox … Announcer
- Robert Benchley … Cast, the Marriage Counselor
- Freeman Gosden … Cast, Amos Jones, George "Kingfish" Stevens, and Lightnin' , Created by
- Charles Correll … Cast, Andy Brown, Created by
- Ernestine Wade … Cast, Sapphire Stevens
- Dorothy Parker