There was no happy ending for 1939. The whole decade was spent clawing our way out of financial disaster, now we got a humanitarian disaster beyond imagining as slaughter continues world wide.

But Life doesn’t hold still! This episode features the cultural, technological, and social changes that occurred over the noise of the war in 1939!

FEATURING

Dick Powell

The Teddy Powell Orchestra

Orson Welles

Fibber McGee and Molly

Cecil B. DeMille

Mrs. Sara Roosevelt

Jack Benny

Eddie “Rochester” Anderson

Charlie McCarthy

Edgar Bergen

Tony Galento

Mary Livingston

Lou Gehrig

Fred Allen

Harry Von Zell

Don Ameche

Connee Boswell

Bert Lahr

Judy Garland

Fran Morgan

Dorothy Lamour

Dinah Shore

Bing Crosby

Jane Withers

The Yacht Club Boys

And More!!

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