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BIOGRAPHY IN SOUND: THEY KNEW ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT (RADIO)

Summary

One in this series of tributes to distinguished people. This program features comments about Alexander Woollcott by Orson Welles, and Eleanor Roosevelt; reporters Charles Brackett, Ben Hecht, and Rebecca West; Woollcott's former classmate Professor Robert Barnes Rudd; columnist Danton Walker; Woollcott's publisher Harold Guinzburg; Woollcott's manager Joseph Hennessey; actor Charles Lederer; and Jane Grant of the Algonquin Roundtable.

Details

  • NETWORK: NBC
  • DATE: November 13, 1956 Tuesday 8:35 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:55:00
  • COLOR/B&W: N/A
  • CATALOG ID: R89:0175
  • GENRE: Radio - Talk/Interviews
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Talk/Interviews
  • SERIES RUN: NBC - Radio series, 1955-1958
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • Jack C. Wilson … Production (Misc.), Program prepared by
  • Kenneth Banghart … Narrator
  • Alexander Woollcott
  • Robert Barnes Rudd
  • Jane Grant
  • Charles Brackett
  • Danton Walker
  • Harold Guinzberg
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Ben Hecht
  • Joseph Hennessey
  • Orson Welles
  • Charles Lederer
  • Rebecca West
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