Our Ms brooks

Hi guys and welcome back to the mystery and comedy Old time radio
podcast please welcome to the Ms Eve Arden in the CBS comedy show
Our Ms brooks.Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the
outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the
show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won
polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had
actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry
Ackerman, at the time CBS's West Coast director of programming,
wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told
historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized
Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school
teaching at the time to have fun with the role. Lucille
Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was
committed to My Favorite Husband and did not audition.
CBS then-chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden,
persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten
audition script—Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written
as a school board president, but was now written as the incoming
new Madison principal—Arden agreed to give the newly revamped show
a try.Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al
Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on CBS on July 19, 1948.
According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very
"feline" in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be
boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay
between the cast—blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating
Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, and scheming
Miss Enright—also received positive reviews. Jeff Chandler played
Boynton and stayed with the role for five years, even after
becoming a movie star. He ultimately resigned because it was too
exhausting to juggle a regular radio role with his film
commitments.Others in the cast included Anne Whitfield as
Conklin's daughter, Harriet. Arden won a radio listeners' poll
by Radio Mirror magazine as the top-ranking comedienne of
1948–49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss
Brooks broadcast that March. "I'm certainly going to try in
the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me,
because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get
to keep Mr. Boynton", she joked. She was also a hit with the
critics: a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors
taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best
radio comedienne.For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored
by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre
Creme shampoo, and Toni hair-care products. The radio series
continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended. I
hope you guys enjoy Miss Eve Arden in the CBS comedy show our Miss
Brooks. and join me later on tonight guys as I bring to the show
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