This episode was originally released on 3/1/2021. While new episodes of Breaking Walls are on hiatus I'll be going back and posting the older episodes.

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In Breaking Walls episode 113 it’s September of 1953 and Elliott Lewis is one of the busiest men in radio. He’s the producer/director of four shows and the star of two. We’ll join him that fall, following for a week to find out what life was like for the man affectionately dubbed by his peers as “Mr. Radio.”

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Highlights:

• Phil and Alice Court Elliott Lewis

• Broadway is My Beat, Still Going Strong

• Agnes Moorehead Guest-Stars on Suspense

• Finding and Losing Love On Stage

• The Very Suspicious Borden Family Murders

• Radio’s Golden Age Draws to a Close

• Looking Ahead to Go Back in time to Wyoming

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The reading material used in today’s episode was:

• On the Air — By John Dunning

• Network Radio Ratings, 1932-53 — By Jim Ramsburg

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On the interview front:

• Sam Edwards, Alice Faye, Phil Harris, Elliott Lewis, Agnes Moorehead, Arch Oboler, and Paula Winslowe were with Chuck Schaden. Hear their full chats at SpeakingOfRadio.com.

• Lilian Buyeff, Mary Jane Croft, Sam Edwards, Betty Lou Gerson, Byron Kane, Lou Krugman, Elliott Lewis, and Jeanette Nolan were with SPERDVAC. For more information, go to SPERDVAC.com.

• Elliott Lewis and E. Jack Neuman were with John Dunning for his 71KNUS program from Denver.

• Elliott Lewis was also with Dick Bertel and Ed Corcoran for WTIC’s The Golden Age of Radio. Hear this full interview at Goldenage-WTIC.org.

• Jack Kruschen, Shirley Mitchell, and George Walsh were with Jim Bohannon.

• Morton Fine spoke with Dan Hafele for SPERDVAC in 1988.

• WIlliam Conrad spoke with Chris Lambesis.

• Norman MacDonnell with John Hickman.

• Raymond Burr was with Jack Webster.

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Selected music featured in today’s episode was:

• Rags to Riches — By Tony Bennett

• Manhattan — By Blossom Dearie

• Pyramid of the Sun — By Les Baxter

• The Venice Dreamer Parts 1 & 2 — By George Winston

• I’ll Be Seeing You — By the Harry James Band

• Caravan — By Gordon Jenkins