The Charlotte Greenwood Show - Helping A Sailor On Christmas Eve

The Charlotte Greenwood Show was a radio
situation comedy in the United States. It was broadcast on ABC
June 13 - September 5, 1944, and on NBC October 15, 1944 -
January 6, 1946.


The program began as a summer replacement for The Bob Hope Show.
Newspaper columnist Hedda Hopper reported, "The interesting thing
is that she [Charlotte Greenwood] got the job on a couple of
scripts written by her husband, Martin Broones, who's never
before written for radio.


The 1944 version of the show had Greenwood in the role of a cub
reporter who worked for a small newspaper while she harbored
dreams of becoming a Hollywood star. When the program resurfaced
in 1945, Greenwood's character had the responsibility of raising
three children, teenagers Jack and Barbara and little Robert
after her good friend died, making her executor of the estate.
The setting was the mythical town of Lakeview. An old time radio
reference commented that Greenwood's character "managed to be
single, moral, and peppy.