My Favorites of 1941

Betty Ann Barr

 

Betty's scrapbook included the following as her "favorites" of 1941.

 

BOOK - Miss Bishop - Bess Streeter Aldrich

SHOW - Smiling Through - Jeanette MacDonald, Gene Raymond

FOOD - Ice Cream, Fruit Salad, Angel Food Cake*

SONG - Elmer's Tune - Dick Jurgen's Record (playing)

ORCHESTRA - Guy Lombardo, Blue Baron

RADIO PROGRAM - Lux Theater

PET PEEVE - To read a story in magazine and have the last of it gone. To have something erased in a letter.

MAGAZINE - Ladies' Home Journal

MOVIE STAR - John Payne

WHAT I ADMIRE MOST IN WOMEN - Sincerity

WHAT I ADMIRE MOST IN MEN - Honesty

COLOR - Blue

 

*Also noted in March 6 1941 Diary entry she had "cherry pie - my favorite."

 

Betty Ann's Diary, January 5, 1942 - "Listened to "Smilin' Through" on Lux" (Radio Theatre) - also "thinks "Humpty Dumpty Heart" is so pretty." Note: Discogs lists a 1988 LP reissue of the complete Lux broadcast of "Smilin' Through," starring Jeanette MacDonald, Brian Aherne, and Gene Raymond, from January 5, 1942. Victor Records Album of songs was released on 3 shellac 10" 78 RPM records in 1942 (M 847).

 

"Smilin' Through,' Victor Records Album, 3 shellac 10" 78 RPM, 1942 (M-847).

Watch clip with Jeannette MacDonald singing "Smilin Through" dancing on their wedding night, MGM Pictures, 1941 Technicolor Musical Film.

John Payne in Sun Valley Serenade, 1941

 

Lux Theatre, Gracie and George

 

September 1941

 

Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, 1941

Guy Lombardo Sheet music, 1941

Blue Barron, 1941

 

Betty Ann Diary, February 23, 1942 - "Listened to "Appointment For Love" on Lux. (Link to listen)

 

Title : Lux Radio Theater (340) Appointment For Love

Air Date : February 23, 1942

Sponsored by: Lux.

Plot : A romance/comedy about a playwright and a doctor. There's an excellent singing Lux commercial forty-five minutes into the program. Charles Boyer is congratulated on becoming an American citizen. The story was produced again on The Lux Radio Theatre on May 1, 1944 (see cat. #46277) and on The Lux Video Theatre on November 3, 1955. Charles Boyer plays the part of a popular and successful playwright reprising his 1941 Universal role in this rollicking comedy success. Myrna Loy plays the part of the doctor whom he falls in love with and subsequently marries. However the playwright doesn’t understand his wife’s scientific approach to love!

Directed by: Cecil B DeMille

File : Lux Radio Theater 42-02-23 (340)

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