Breaking Walls

Previously on A Man Named Marlowe: After Marlowe’s meeting with nightclub owner and gangster Benny Chance, he drives to his friend Lou’s automat only to find that Lou has been murdered. Marlowe goes to his office building where he finds the elevator boy also dead. In Marlowe’s office is an older man with a gun. The two talk. Afterwards Marlowe drives to Spokane, Washington to try to solve the case. When he gets there, the woman who hired him knocks on his hotel room door.

In Episode 5, Spokane begins to yield some answers as Marlowe makes a new friend, and pretends to be interested in buying land before getting ambushed.

Heard in this episode:

Nancy Pop as Janice Tomlinson

Sam T. Wilson as William W. Powell Jr.

Dr. David Linton as William T. Phillips

James Scully as Philip Marlowe

Featured Music:

In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington

A Picture of Me Without You - Paul Whiteman & his Orchestra w/ Ken Darby

Don’t Let It Happen Again - Isham Jones & his Orchestra w/ Joe Martin

On The Good Ship Lollipop - Shirley Temple

A Man Named Marlowe is available in the same feed as Breaking Walls. Subscribe on iTunes and everywhere else you get your podcasts by searching for Breaking Walls or at TheWallBreakers.com.

… and if you enjoy A Man Named Marlowe, tune in to Breaking Walls, a documentary series on the history of American Radio Broadcasting. The most recent episode—number 81—delivers an in-depth look at comedian Fred Allen’s career, complete with interviews, show clips. fights with executives, and a good feud or two.

Both of these shows are available by searching for Breaking Walls wherever you get your podcasts or by going to TheWallBreakers.com

To support these shows for as little as $1 per month, please go to patreon.com/TheWallBreakers.

In Breaking Walls episode 81, we spotlight the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most famous comedians, Fred Allen. Amongst other comedians and entertainers, almost no one was beloved as much as him. His comedic feud with Jack Benny was legendary, as were his battles with network executives and sponsors.

Highlights:

• John Sullivan is Born in Boston

• What growing up in Boston with his aunt was like

• How his job at the Boston Public library began his career in show business

• Learning to Juggle and Early Amateur Performances

• Harry LaToy and how Johnny Sullivan became Fred St. James

• Freddie James: The World’s Worst Juggler

• Becoming Fred Allen and going on Broadway

• Allen’s Radio Birth—Bath Towels, Laxatives, and Mayonnaise

• Town Hall Tonight is Born

• Jack Benny—The Feud of the Century

• Mr. Ramshaw— an Eagle on the loose

• Changing networks

• Texaco and Problems with NBC

• King for a Day

• Bowing out gracefully

• Fred Allen: Memoirist

• What’s my Line?

• Final Days

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Special thanks to our Sponsors:

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://twelvechimesradio.blogspot.com

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning

• Treadmill to Oblivion & Much Ado About Me … both by Fred Allen

Selected Music featured in today’s Episode was:

• Swingin’ on a Star by Bing Crosby

• Over There recorded live by George M. Cohan

• Auld Lang Syne by Guy Lombardo

A Special Thank you to:

Ron Baron

Ryan Kramer

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Rebecca Shield

My final thank you is to you the audience. Since December 1st, 2017 monthly downloads/streams are up 1500%. I am very grateful.

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

In Breaking Walls episode 81, we spotlight the life and career of one of the twentieth century’s most famous comedians, Fred Allen. Amongst other comedians and entertainers, almost no one was beloved as much as him. His comedic feud with Jack Benny was legendary, as were his battles with network executives and sponsors.

Highlights:

• John Sullivan is Born in Boston

• What growing up in Boston with his aunt was like

• How his job at the Boston Public library began his career in show business

• Learning to Juggle and Early Amateur Performances

• Harry LaToy and how Johnny Sullivan became Fred St. James

• Freddie James: The World’s Worst Juggler

• Becoming Fred Allen and going on Broadway

• Allen’s Radio Birth—Bath Towels, Laxatives, and Mayonnaise

• Town Hall Tonight is Born

• Jack Benny—The Feud of the Century

• Mr. Ramshaw— an Eagle on the loose

• Changing networks

• Texaco and Problems with NBC

• King for a Day

• Bowing out gracefully

• Fred Allen: Memoirist

• What’s my Line?

• Final Days

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Special thanks to our Sponsors:

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://twelvechimesradio.blogspot.com

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning

• Treadmill to Oblivion & Much Ado About Me … both by Fred Allen

Selected Music featured in today’s Episode was:

• Swingin’ on a Star by Bing Crosby

• Over There recorded live by George M. Cohan

• Auld Lang Syne by Guy Lombardo

A Special Thank you to:

Ron Baron

Ryan Kramer

Christian Neuhaus

Aimee Pavy

Rebecca Shield

My final thank you is to you the audience. Since December 1st, 2017 monthly downloads/streams are up 1500%. I am very grateful.

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

Previously on A Man Named Marlowe: Marlowe stops in at an all-night diner in an attempt to decompress from the murders he’s witnessed. When he gets back to his apartment, he receives a call from a henchman, telling him that Krypton Club owner Benny Chance wants Marlowe off the case, and he’s willing to pay to see it happen.

In Episode 4, Two more murders bring Marlowe to the edge, until an unbelievable visit from an older man sends him to Spokane looking for answers.

Heard in this episode:

Dan Mountain as Bernie Ohls

Sam T. Wilson as Henry Long

Brett Solimine as The Desk Clerk

James Scully as Philip Marlowe

Featured Music:

Riders on the Storm by George Winston from Night Divides the Day – The Music of the Doors

You Did It, You Did It by Rahsaan Roland Kirk & His Quartet

A Man Named Marlowe is available in the same feed as Breaking Walls. Subscribe on iTunes and everywhere else you get your podcasts by searching for Breaking Walls or at TheWallBreakers.com.

… and if you enjoy A Man Named Marlowe, tune in to Breaking Walls, a documentary series on the history of American Radio Broadcasting. The most recent episode—number 80—looks at a summer series called Forecast that ushered in an era of public pilots, and gave rise to three incredibly popular shows.

Both of these shows are available by searching for Breaking Walls wherever you get your podcasts or by going to TheWallBreakers.com

To support these shows for as little as $1 per month, please go to patreon.com/TheWallBreakers.

Previously on A Man Named Marlowe: Marlowe stops in at an all-night diner in an attempt to decompress from the murders he’s witnessed. When he gets back to his apartment, he receives a call from a henchman, telling him that Krypton Club owner Benny Chance wants Marlowe off the case, and he’s willing to pay to see it happen.

In Episode 4, Two more murders bring Marlowe to the edge, until an unbelievable visit from an older man sends him to Spokane looking for answers.

Heard in this episode:

Dan Mountain as Bernie Ohls

Sam T. Wilson as Henry Long

Brett Solimine as The Desk Clerk

James Scully as Philip Marlowe

Featured Music:

Riders on the Storm by George Winston from Night Divides the Day – The Music of the Doors

You Did It, You Did It by Rahsaan Roland Kirk & His Quartet

A Man Named Marlowe is available in the same feed as Breaking Walls. Subscribe on iTunes and everywhere else you get your podcasts by searching for Breaking Walls or at TheWallBreakers.com.

… and if you enjoy A Man Named Marlowe, tune in to Breaking Walls, a documentary series on the history of American Radio Broadcasting. The most recent episode—number 80—looks at a summer series called Forecast that ushered in an era of public pilots, and gave rise to three incredibly popular shows.

Both of these shows are available by searching for Breaking Walls wherever you get your podcasts or by going to TheWallBreakers.com

To support these shows for as little as $1 per month, please go to patreon.com/TheWallBreakers.

Previously on A Man Named Marlowe: Marlowe gets tailed across town to his friend Bernie Ohl’s house. After leaving Bernie’s he heads up to Big Bear Lake to investigate the cabin his new client Ruth Moriarity mentioned. There he finds something unspeakably gruesome.

In Episode 3, Marlowe's offered a large sum of money to drop the case and stop looking for John Moriarity, even though he's already stumbled upon two horrible murders.

Heard in this episode:

Nancy Pop as The Waitress

Olga Lysenko as The Telephone Operator

Fernando Sanabria as The Homicide Detective

Christopher Bradley as Gus

Will Benson as Benny Chance

James Scully as Philip Marlowe

Closing Song:

Farewell My Lovely by Richard Himber, with Stuart Allen singing

A Man Named Marlowe is available in the same feed as Breaking Walls. Subscribe on iTunes and everywhere else you get your podcasts by searching for Breaking Walls or at TheWallBreakers.com.

… and if you enjoy A Man Named Marlowe, tune in to Breaking Walls, a documentary series on the history of American Radio Broadcasting. The most recent episode—number 80—looks at a summer series called Forecast that ushered in an era of public pilots, and gave rise to three incredibly popular shows.

Both of these shows are available by searching for Breaking Walls wherever you get your podcasts or by going to TheWallBreakers.com

To support these shows for as little as $1 per month, please go to patreon.com/TheWallBreakers.

Previously on A Man Named Marlowe: Marlowe gets tailed across town to his friend Bernie Ohl’s house. After leaving Bernie’s he heads up to Big Bear Lake to investigate the cabin his new client Ruth Moriarity mentioned. There he finds something unspeakably gruesome.

In Episode 3, Marlowe's offered a large sum of money to drop the case and stop looking for John Moriarity, even though he's already stumbled upon two horrible murders.

Heard in this episode:

Nancy Pop as The Waitress

Olga Lysenko as The Telephone Operator

Fernando Sanabria as The Homicide Detective

Christopher Bradley as Gus

Will Benson as Benny Chance

James Scully as Philip Marlowe

Closing Song:

Farewell My Lovely by Richard Himber, with Stuart Allen singing

A Man Named Marlowe is available in the same feed as Breaking Walls. Subscribe on iTunes and everywhere else you get your podcasts by searching for Breaking Walls or at TheWallBreakers.com.

… and if you enjoy A Man Named Marlowe, tune in to Breaking Walls, a documentary series on the history of American Radio Broadcasting. The most recent episode—number 80—looks at a summer series called Forecast that ushered in an era of public pilots, and gave rise to three incredibly popular shows.

Both of these shows are available by searching for Breaking Walls wherever you get your podcasts or by going to TheWallBreakers.com

To support these shows for as little as $1 per month, please go to patreon.com/TheWallBreakers.

Question? What do starlets Marlene Dietrich, Kay Thompson, Margaret Sullivan, and Loretta Young have in common? How about writers and directors Norman Corwin, Helen Deutsch, and Bill Spier. How about Danny Kaye, Mel Allen, Gerald Mohr, Elliot Lewis, Byron Kane, Lurene Tuttle, Paula Winslowe, Joseph Kearns, and Arthur Q. Bryan?

Answer: They guest-starred, grew, or launched their careers on CBS’s Forecast!

Forecast was a summer replacement series for the Lux Radio Theatre which ran for two seasons in 1940 and 1941. It ushered in an era of show pilots for public viewing and helped give rise to countless actors, writers, and directors, as well as two huge shows: Suspense & Duffy’s Tavern. On Breaking Walls Episode 80, we present an in-depth look at Forecast featuring interviews, insights, and episode moments.

Highlights:

• Why would Forecast have come to the airwaves in the first place?

• Hear CBS head William S. Paley’s insights on programming

• How Alfred Hitchcock helped launch the famed mystery show, Suspense

• Bill Spier: Music critic, turned producer and director of mystery

• How Elliott Lewis got his start on Forecast

• Mel Allen & Duffy’s Tavern: Where the Elite Meet To Eat

• Norman Corwin’s Two pieces for Forecast that helped catapult his career

• How radio actor Byron Kane got his first role on Forecast

• Jim Backus & the Class of 1941

* Hopalong Cassidy

• The Country Lawyer: One of the most experimental radio broadcasts of its time

• An all african-american jubilee to close Forecast

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Special thanks to our Sponsors:

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://twelvechimesradio.blogspot.com

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning

and Forecast: Is there a Sponsor in a House by Martin Grams Jr.

Featured in today’s episode were interviews with:

• Bill Spier and Mel Allen for Dick Bertel & Ed Corcoran’s WTIC Golden Age of Radio program, who’s episodes can be found at GoldenAge-Wtic.org

• Elliott Lewis and Byron Kane, for the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety, and Comedy, which can be found at SPERDVAC.com

• and Jim Backus and Norman Corwin with Chuck Schaden, who’s interviews can be streamed for free at SpeakingofRadio.com. Norman Corwin was also interviewed by Michael James Kacey for his DVD The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin, which you can pick up on Amazon.

Selected Music featured in today’s Episode was:

• My Blue Heaven by Glenn Miller

• Begin the Beguine & Stardust by Artie Shaw

• Alcolba Azul, by Elliot Goldenthal

The Battle Cry for Freedom by Jaqueline Schwab for the Civil War, by Ken Burns

Falling played by Michael Silvermann

• Catch a Falling Star, by Perry Como

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Christian Neuhaus

Rebecca Shield

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

Question? What do starlets Marlene Dietrich, Kay Thompson, Margaret Sullivan, and Loretta Young have in common? How about writers and directors Norman Corwin, Helen Deutsch, and Bill Spier. How about Danny Kaye, Mel Allen, Gerald Mohr, Elliot Lewis, Byron Kane, Lurene Tuttle, Paula Winslowe, Joseph Kearns, and Arthur Q. Bryan?

Answer: They guest-starred, grew, or launched their careers on CBS’s Forecast!

Forecast was a summer replacement series for the Lux Radio Theatre which ran for two seasons in 1940 and 1941. It ushered in an era of show pilots for public viewing and helped give rise to countless actors, writers, and directors, as well as two huge shows: Suspense & Duffy’s Tavern. On Breaking Walls Episode 80, we present an in-depth look at Forecast featuring interviews, insights, and episode moments.

Highlights:

• Why would Forecast have come to the airwaves in the first place?

• Hear CBS head William S. Paley’s insights on programming

• How Alfred Hitchcock helped launch the famed mystery show, Suspense

• Bill Spier: Music critic, turned producer and director of mystery

• How Elliott Lewis got his start on Forecast

• Mel Allen & Duffy’s Tavern: Where the Elite Meet To Eat

• Norman Corwin’s Two pieces for Forecast that helped catapult his career

• How radio actor Byron Kane got his first role on Forecast

• Jim Backus & the Class of 1941

* Hopalong Cassidy

• The Country Lawyer: One of the most experimental radio broadcasts of its time

• An all african-american jubilee to close Forecast

The WallBreakers:

http://thewallbreakers.com

Subscribe to Breaking Walls everywhere you get your podcasts.

To support the show:

http://patreon.com/TheWallBreakers

Special thanks to our Sponsors:

• Twelve Chimes, It’s Midnight

https://twelvechimesradio.blogspot.com

• The Fireside Mystery Theatre

https://www.firesidemysterytheatre.com

The reading material used in today’s episode was:

The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning

and Forecast: Is there a Sponsor in a House by Martin Grams Jr.

Featured in today’s episode were interviews with:

• Bill Spier and Mel Allen for Dick Bertel & Ed Corcoran’s WTIC Golden Age of Radio program, who’s episodes can be found at GoldenAge-Wtic.org

• Elliott Lewis and Byron Kane, for the Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety, and Comedy, which can be found at SPERDVAC.com

• and Jim Backus and Norman Corwin with Chuck Schaden, who’s interviews can be streamed for free at SpeakingofRadio.com. Norman Corwin was also interviewed by Michael James Kacey for his DVD The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin, which you can pick up on Amazon.

Selected Music featured in today’s Episode was:

• My Blue Heaven by Glenn Miller

• Begin the Beguine & Stardust by Artie Shaw

• Alcolba Azul, by Elliot Goldenthal

The Battle Cry for Freedom by Jaqueline Schwab for the Civil War, by Ken Burns

Falling played by Michael Silvermann

• Catch a Falling Star, by Perry Como

A Special Thank you to:

Ryan Kramer

Christian Neuhaus

Rebecca Shield

WallBreakers Links:

Patreon - patreon.com/thewallbreakers

Social Media - @TheWallBreakers

URL - thewallbreakers.com

Online Store - jamesthewallbreaker.com/shop/

Previously on A Man Named Marlowe:

Los Angeles, 1935. It’s the heart of the Great Depression and Philip Marlowe is broke. He stops into his friend Lou’s automat for a sandwich. Lou tells Marlowe he’s got some work for him to do. It sounds like it’s Marlowe’s lucky day… or is it?

Part 2:

Marlowe gets tailed across town to Bernie Ohl’s house. After leaving Bernie’s he heads up to Big Bear Lake to investigate the cabin Ruth mentioned. There he finds something unspeakably gruesome.

Heard in this episode:

Dan Mountain as Bernie Ohls

James Scully as Philip Marlowe

Closing Song:

Red Sails In The Sunset by Bing Crosby

A Man Named Marlowe is available in the same feed as Breaking Walls. Subscribe on iTunes and everywhere else you get your podcasts by searching for Breaking Walls or at TheWallBreakers.com.

… and if you enjoy A Man Named Marlowe, tune in to Breaking Walls, a documentary series on the history of American Radio Broadcasting. The most recent episode—number 79—chronicles the career of Orson Welles between 1931 and 1941. Both of these shows are available in the same feed, by searching for Breaking Walls wherever you get your podcasts or at TheWallBreakers.com

To support these shows for as little as $1 per month, please go to patreon.com/TheWallBreakers.