Episode 140 - Marlowe at the Movies (Hollywood Star Time)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2015
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Dick Powell retired his image as a boyish crooner with his acclaimed portrayal of Philip Marlowe in Murder, My Sweet. The big screen adaptation of Raymond Chandler's Farewell, My Lovely was and is a critically acclaimed hit – thanks in no small part to Powell's performance. Murder, My Sweet recast Powell as a cinematic tough guy and it paved the way for future gumshoe roles on screen and radio. We'll hear Dick Powell recreate the film, along with Mary Astor and Mike Mazurki, in Hollywood Star Time (originally aired on CBS on June 8, 1946).
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| 0:00.0 | The Now Dick Powell as Richard Diamond, Private Detective. |
| 0:27.0 | That's how most of us, certainly those of us who are fans of old-time radio, remember Dick |
| 0:38.1 | Powell today as Richard Diamond, Private Detective. |
| 0:42.8 | Maybe you think of his other Radio Shamus series, |
| 0:45.7 | Rogue's Gallery, or of his film noir performances |
| 0:48.9 | on the big screen. |
| 0:50.4 | But there was a time when Powell's persona |
| 0:52.4 | was miles away from the world of tough private eyes and hardboiled mystery. |
| 0:56.6 | He achieved fame first and foremost as a baby-faced crooner in movie musicals. |
| 1:02.0 | And he might have stayed in that world if it hadn't |
| 1:05.3 | been for a 1944 film that brought Philip Marlow to the big screen and one that would open |
| 1:10.9 | the door for Powell's career renaissance. |
| 1:14.0 | Born in Arkansas on November 14, 1904, Dick Powell was discovered by Warner Brothers in 1930, |
| 1:22.0 | when he was working as the Master of Ceremonies at Pittsburgh's Enwright Theatre. |
| 1:26.8 | He was signed to a contract and he made his screen debut in 1932's Blessed Event. From there he appeared in several romantic musical comedies, usually |
| 1:36.3 | co-starring with actresses Ruby Keeler and Joan Blondell. Audiences could see Powell sing and dance his way through pictures like 42nd Street, |
| 1:45.8 | Footlight Parade, and Gold Diggers of 1937. |
| 1:49.7 | Pete, Oglethorpe, come on, up and atom, on your toes, that's the old pet. |
| 1:54.3 | They want you to sing, Rosamore quick. |
| 1:55.9 | I thought you cured them on that yesterday. |
| 1:57.4 | So did I, I guess they had a relapse. You'll get pie in the sky when you die, if you're by, |
| 2:05.0 | in the sky. |
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