The Great Gildersleeve
Throckmorton Gildersleeve is a blustery "ladies" man who often finds himself in unusual predicaments. Raising his too smart nephew Leroy, he leans on his secretary Bessie and tries to ignore the advice of housekeeper Birdie.
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"My husband and I have recorded most of the classic radio program from 1941 through 1954. The program began in September 1941 as a spinoff of Fibber McGee and Molly. The first episodes that fall were a bit too vaudevillian, but after the attack on Pearl Harbor, many radio programs took on a whole new patriotic point of view. Throughout the war years The Great Gildersleeve portrayed the war effort though episodes about gasoline rationing, ration points for meat, Gildersleeve having to repair his own car because the mechanic went off to war, and having a soldier from a nearby army base join the ..."
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An unaired pilot starred Willard Waterman, Lillian Randolph, and Tim Considine as Leroy. Also in the cast: Jesse White, Maidie Norman, Mary Costa. 1954.
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Throckmorton Gildersleeve is a blustery "ladies" man who often finds himself in unusual predicaments. Raising his too smart nephew Leroy, he leans on his secretary Bessie and tries to ignore the advice of housekeeper Birdie.