Episode 157 - And the Winner Is... (Rocky Fortune, Philip Marlowe, & Rex Saunders)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)
Jack Mooney
4.5 ā¢ 1.1K Ratings
šļø 24 February 2016
ā±ļø 86 minutes
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Summary
Just in time for the Academy Awards, "Down These Mean Streets"Ā presents a bonus episode featuring a trio of Oscar-winning radio detectives. First, Frank SinatraĀ isĀ Rocky FortuneĀ inĀ "Shipboard Jewel Robbery" (originally aired on NBC on October 20, 1953). Then, Van HeflinĀ is Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe inĀ "Trouble is My Business" (originally aired on NBC on August 5, 1947). Finally, Rex Harrison stars inĀ "Hidden Thoughts Of A Feminine Mindā¦Concerned With Murder" from The Private Files of Rex SaundersĀ (originally aired on NBC on July 4, 1951).
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| 0:00.0 | The And the On Sunday night, the 88 Academy Awards ceremony will be held in Hollywood, and the Academy of Motion |
| 0:32.4 | Picture Arts and Sciences will honor the best |
| 0:34.8 | films and performances of the past year. During the Golden Age of radio the |
| 0:39.9 | big screen and the radio dial were intimately connected. |
| 0:44.0 | Listeners could hear recreations of their favorite movies on shows like the Lux Radio Theater |
| 0:49.5 | and the Screen Directors Playhouse. |
| 0:52.2 | Oftentimes those shows would feature the stars of the films |
| 0:55.2 | recreating their roles for radio. The Academy even got in on the act with Academy |
| 1:00.9 | Award, a prestigious anthology series presenting adaptations of films that had been nominated for or received Oscars. |
| 1:10.0 | Unfortunately, the prestige of the awards meant the show wasn't long for the world. |
| 1:15.8 | It couldn't afford the salaries of the stars and the sizable payment it made each week to use |
| 1:21.8 | the name of the Academy. |
| 1:24.0 | Radio was also home to several Oscar winners, |
| 1:27.4 | both before and after their wins. |
| 1:30.6 | Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, Mercedes McCambridge, Ronald Coleman, Bing Crosby, and |
| 1:36.3 | Edmund O'Brien were just a few of the performers who headlined their own radio shows. |
| 1:41.6 | Today, in honor of the Oscars, returning back the dial for a |
| 1:46.7 | trio of radio detective shows, each starring an Academy Award winner. First, we'll hear Frank Sinatra, |
| 1:55.0 | who took home the 1953 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for |
| 1:59.0 | from here to eternity. |
| 2:01.0 | He's Rocky Fortune, in Shipboard Jewel Robbery, originally aired on NBC on |
| 2:07.0 | October 20th, 1953. |
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