There's No Business Like Show Business...Was

By: Alan Young

Narrated by: Steve Rausch

Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's Summary

You've heard Wilbur speak about Mr. Ed. Now hear what Alan Young has to say about:

• Chapter One: Radio - the simple life! (Paul Whiteman, Tallulah Bankhead, Zero Mostel, Eddie Cantor, Jo Stafford)
• Chapter Two: Hollywood: The breeding ground of character - and characters. ("Androcles and the Lion", Jim Backus, George Bernard Shaw, Victor Mature)
• Chapter Three: Hollywood Parties - (Atwater Kent, Maggie Ettinger, "Margie", Louella Parsons, Jack Benny, Mary Livingston, George Burns, Ozzie & Harriett, Edgar Bergen, Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Red Skelton)
• Chapter Four: Hollywood Hotchpotch (Extras & Agents)
• Chapter Five: Watch them - they're teaching you! (Peter Lorre, Clifton Webb, Jane Russell, Gower Champion, Jeannie Mahoney, Audrey Totter)
• Chapter Six: The good old days, or Have I been around that long? (Mickey Rooney, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowell, Jeanne Craine, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Fibber McGee. Red Skelton, Sonja Henie, Dinah Shore, Bing Crosby)
• Chapter Seven: Television The box they put radio into (Fred Allen, James Gleason, Chester, Chester Clute, Wally Ford)
• Chapter Eight: On Stage Please! (John Charles Thomas, Ben Blue, Joe Besser)
• Chapter Nine: The Time Machine - (George Pal, Tom Thumb, H.G. Welles)
• Epilogue: It was easier then

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