Cathy Lewis

Welcome back to the mystery and comedy old time radio podcast.
please welcome to the show this morning to chill our spines Ms
cathy Lewis. Mrs Cathy Lewis is most identified as the sensibly
droll secretary Jane Stacy rooming with scatterbrained Irma
Peterson (Marie Wilson) in the 1947–54 radio and television
comedy My Friend Irma. In recognition of her work as Jane
Stacy, she received the Ideal Secretary Award from the Executive
Secretaries Club in 1948. She would play Jane Stacy until
1949 taking some time off from September 1948 and through the
rest of the season due to overwork. She appeared on Sam
Spade and I Love a Mystery. She worked with and publicly
assessed the radio performances of some of the greatest screen
talents of the day, including Gregory Peck, Joan
Crawford, Joseph Cotten, June Havoc, and Humphrey
Bogart. Lewis met actor Elliott Lewis (who had the same
surname) when they recorded at The Woodbury Playhouse on
November 6, 1940.On April 30, 1943, while Elliott was on leave from
the Army, they married at Chapman Park Hotel in Los
Angeles. Elliott's uncle Eddie Raiden was best man. Together,
the couple worked on such old time radio classics
as Voyage of the Scarlet Queen and Suspense. They
earned a combined income of $90,000 per year. Both Lewises were
staples of vintage American radio in numerous, genre-spanning works
in comedy and drama (they were, for example,
regulars among what was known as Hollywood's Radio Row group of
performers, appearing often--together and separately--on such
programs as The Whistler),especially their co-creation of the
anthology series On Stage. Together they wrote an episode
of Suspense titled "The Thirteenth Sound" that aired in
1947 and an episode of Twelve Players titled
"Checkerboard" that aired in 1948.The Lewises separated on their
fourteenth anniversary, and Lewis filed for divorce, on the grounds
of mental cruelty. The divorce was granted on April 16, 1958.Most
of her film work in the 1940s was in uncredited bit parts. She
recreated her My Friend Irma role on television for the
show's first two seasons, but, overworked and tired of the
role, left the show in 1953. She had a supporting role in The
Party Crashers (1958), a film now noted as the final screen
appearances of troubled legend Frances Farmer and former
child star Bobby Driscoll. That same year, she and Elliott
Lewis divorced, putting an end to their image as "Mr. and Mrs.
Radio." A year later, she starred as half the title of a
short-lived bid to bring another radio show, Fibber McGee and
Molly, to television, with Bob Sweeney as Fibber to
Lewis's Molly. The show initially had mixed reviews,but it was
canceled during its first season.[21]:95 In 1961, Lewis received
positive notice for her supporting role in the movie The Devil
at 4 O'Clock.She began a recurring role as Deirdre Thompson, the
snooty sister of George Baxter, on the television
hit Hazel.[23] Lewis played a widow courted by two
muleskinners (Ken Curtis and Denver Pyle) in the 1964
episode "Graydon's Charge" of the syndicated series Death
Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. but today Miss Kathy
Lewis comes to the show to reenact two of her suspense performances
in this first one she plays a woman who feels like she's been
mistreated by her husband and wants her affair to be kept in secret
with the man that is going to kill her husband. it is called murder
for Myra. and then the second episode starring Mr Elliot Lewis and
Kathy Lewis. she plays a woman who is walking down a road and
hitching her thumb out for a ride and gets picked up by man and the
man is so enamored with her beauty that he is up running over a man
in the middle of the road. it is called run sheep run. and then his
final episode this Kathy Lewis and Miss Maire Wilson star in the
CBS comedy show my friend Irma. it is called the Red head I hope
you guys enjoy Miss Kathy Lewis and our performance on the show for
today please join me tonight for Mr Edward Robertson and enjoy the
show