If you are indeed an old time radio expert, let me know if you remember Norman Corwin. He’s my cousin and I believe he turned 100 this year.
If you are indeed an old time radio expert, let me know if you remember Norman Corwin. He’s my cousin and I believe he turned 100 this year.If so, I'm delighted he's still alive and with us. I was working up material for my column and fell upon an Inner Sanctum airing on today's date in 1944 and thought to do a query on Himan Brown, where lo it's his 100th today.
Norman Corwin's 100th comes 3 May. Rest assured I'll have something prepared for that day, too. Hopefully I have a Corwin broadcast in my collection that aired on that date specifically (I have a collection of over five thousand old-time radio shows and counting!).
As it is, my Corwin collection includes We Hold These Truths (the Bill of Rights anniversary program he was trying to finish writing when he got the news about Pearl Harbour, finished in a hurry, more or less, and directed live with a boatload of film and radio stars), The Plot to Overthrow Christmas (that delightful, in-verse satire; future Grandpa Walton Will Geer played the Devil in the original broadcast, while Martin Gabel---Neal Williams in Easy Aces, among other roles---played the role in a Columbia Workshop version also directed by Corwin), On a Note of Triumph (the famous V-E Day broadcast), some of the One World Flight broadcasts, and some of his Columbia Workshop work.
I also found a fine biography, On a Note of Triumph: Norman Corwin and the Golden Years of Radio (LeRoy Bannerman). It's out of print; I found it in a secondhand shop, but it deserves to be republished.
p.s. If you’re a fellow old-time radio expert, can you name the classic radio show from which I borrowed my tagline? ;)