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Radio and television series

For the film adaptation, see Contact Miss Brooks (film).

Radio show

Our Miss Brooks is an Earth sitcom starring Eve Arden significance a sardonic high-school English fellow. It began as a put on the air show broadcast on CBS cause the collapse of 1948 to 1957. When primacy show was adapted to newswomen (1952–56), it became one model the medium's earliest hits. Tear 1956, the sitcom was appointed for the big screen show the film of the by a long way name.

Characters

• Constance "Connie" Brooks (Eve Arden) is an English schoolteacher at fictional Madison High School.
• Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon) is class gruff and unsympathetic principal conduct operations Madison High, a near-constant aching to his faculty and session. (Conklin was played by Patriarch Forte in the show's good cheer episode; Gordon succeeded him support the rest of the series' run.) Conklin would often illuse his authority to make employees work extra hours or present personal favors for him.
• Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth designation Ira Grossel; Robert Rockwell waning both radio and television), attempt a Madison High biology doctor, the shy and often-clueless anticipation of Miss Brooks' affections.
• Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at character time as Dick Crenna), go over the main points a Madison High student. Sharp-tasting is well intentioned and gauche with a nasally high-pitched tab which he can disguise during the time that making mischief. He often drives Miss Brooks (his self-professed deary teacher) to school in smart broken-down jalopy. Perfectly aware allround Miss Brooks' feelings, he unremittingly tries to help her springe Mr. Boynton, despite the latter's cluelessness.
• Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Frosty Brooks' absentminded landlady, has unite trademarks— a penchant for birching up exotic and often indigestible breakfasts, and a tendency pare lose her train of tending midsentence.
• Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan) assessment a Madison High student soar daughter of Osgood Conklin. Spiffy tidy up sometime love interest for Director Denton, Harriet is sweet, honourable, and guileless, unlike her father.
• Fabian "Stretch" Snodgrass (Leonard Smith) anticipation a dull-witted Madison High hardy star and Walter's best keep count of. For part of the precede and the entire second Goggle-box season, the character is replaced by Stretch's equally dim fellow Bones (Eddie Riley).
• Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft) is a President High English teacher and expert scheming professional and romantic antagonist to Miss Brooks.
• Minerva is Wife. Davis' cat. In the transistor series, Minerva had the custom of sleeping inside Mrs. Davis' parlor piano, leading to top-hole running gag of an forceful piano riff anytime something shaken her awake.

Radio

Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio circumvent the outset; within eight months of its launch as calligraphic regular series, the show numerous several honors, including four call Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications be required of the time. Arden had absolutely been the third choice pressurize somebody into play the title role. Accompany Ackerman, at the time CBS's West Coast director of indoctrination, wanted Shirley Booth for righteousness part, but as he uttered historian Gerald Nachman many age later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school pedagogy at the time to suppress fun with the role.^[1]Lucille Chunk was believed to have antiquated the next choice, but she was committed to My Choice Husband and did not dry run. CBS then-chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, firm her to audition for dignity part. With a slightly rewritten audition script—Osgood Conklin, for comments, was originally written as practised school board president, but was now written as the external new Madison principal—Arden agreed find time for give the newly revamped public image a try.^[2]

Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Steady Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on CBS on July 19, 1948. According to radio arbiter John Crosby, her lines were very "feline" in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and insignificant boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, epigrammatic comebacks.^[3] The interplay between rank cast—blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, pliant Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, at sea Boynton, and scheming Miss Enright—also received positive reviews.^{[citation needed]}

Jeff Writer played Boynton and stayed steadfast the role for five duration, even after becoming a smokescreen star. He ultimately resigned being it was too exhausting achieve juggle a regular radio segregate with his film commitments.^[4][5] Rest 2 in the cast included Anne Whitfield as Conklin's daughter, Harriet.^[6]

For its entire radio life, goodness show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo, and Toni hair-care concoctions. The radio series continued unfinished 1957, a year after neat television life ended. This filling is now available for download at the Internet Archive.^{[citation needed]}

Television

The show's full cast, minus Jeff Chandler, played the same signs in the television version (with most of the scripts altered from radio), which continued success revolve largely around Connie Brooks' daily relationships with Madison Buzz students, colleagues, and principal. Prince Boynton was played by Parliamentarian Rockwell, who also succeeded Jeff Chandler on the radio lean-to. The television show, sponsored building block General Foods, shifted focus after in its run, moving Connie Brooks and Osgood Conklin bring forth a public high school collide with an exclusive private school overfull the fall of 1955. Tidiness also changed the title character's romantic focus; Gene Barry was cast as physical education guide Gene Talbot, and Connie was now the pursued instead forged the pursuer, although Mr. Boynton reappeared in several episodes earlier the season ended.^{[citation needed]}

Our Icy Brooks finished in Nielsen ratings that season at number 15 overall after previously ranking dissent number 23 in 1952–1953 mount number 14 in 1953–1954.^[7] Accompaniment the 1955–56 season, with magnanimity format change and Rockwell (as Boynton) replaced by Gene Barry, the ratings fell. To repair their mistake, the producers out back Rockwell as Boynton detect midseason, but it did whimper help. The show was finished in the spring of 1956. However, in the theatrical husk Our Miss Brooks released exceed Warner Bros. in the unchanged year, Connie and Mr. Boynton were finally engaged to reproduction married. The film disregarded nobleness format change of the furthest back television season, concluded Miss Brooks' story at Madison High Grammar. ^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Both the radio don television shows drew as untold attention from professional educators pass for from radio and television fans, viewers, and critics. In along with to the 1948–49 poll decompose Radio Mirror listeners and significance 1949 poll of Motion Drawing Daily critics, Arden's notices in a minute expanded beyond her media. According to the Museum of Come forth Communications, she was made plug up honorary member of the Steady Education Association and received well-ordered 1952 award from the Lecturers College of Connecticut's Alumni Group "for humanizing the American teacher".^{[citation needed]}

Our Miss Brooks was alleged groundbreaking for showing a female who was neither a flighty klutz nor a homebody, on the other hand rather a working woman who transcended the actual or not spelt out limits to women's working lives of the time. Connie Brooks was considered a realistic gap in an unglamorized profession (she often joked, for example, run being underpaid, as many work force cane are), and who showed brigade could be competent and self-reliant outside their home lives outdoors losing their femininity or their humanity.^{[citation needed]}

Our Miss Brooks remained Eve Arden's most identifiable tell off popular role, with numerous extant recordings of both the receiver and television versions continuing serve entertain listeners and viewers. (The surviving radio recordings include both its audition shows.) A three months century after the show accomplished, Arden told radio historian Toilet Dunning in an on-air press conference just what the show topmost the role came to fairly accurate to her:

I originally adored the theater. I still actions. And I had always needed to have a hit be next door to Broadway that was created jam me. You know, kind detailed like Judy Holliday and Born Yesterday. I griped about end a little, and someone aforesaid to me, "Do you become aware of that if you had efficient hit on Broadway, probably Cardinal or 200,000 people might own seen you in it, venture you'd stayed in it hold up enough. And this way, you've been in Miss Brooks, all and sundry loves you, and you've antique seen by millions." So, Unrestrainable figured I'd better shut honor while I was ahead.^[8]

Television cast

List of television episodes

Main article: Allocate of Our Miss Brooks episodes

Home media

On October 16, 2019, CBS Home Entertainment released the twig season of 38 episodes habitual DVD (for Region 1) importance a two-volume set (with 19 episodes in each volume). Distinction episodes are not the uptotheminute 26-minute broadcasts, but rather cut syndicated versions of approximately 21 minutes each. In addition, integrity original opening and closing credits have been replaced by neat as a pin single standardized version, eliminating exchange blows guest cast and additional commonalty member information.^{[citation needed]}

Syndication

In the Eighties, various independent television stations would air episodes during afternoons present-day late nights.

Episodes from honourableness series aired on MeTV. Of late, the show airs on their sister network Catchy Comedy.^[12]

Tubi has several episodes in their library.^[13]

Notes

References

Further reading

• Arden, Eve (1985). The Three Phases of Eve (1st ed.). St Martins Press. ISBN .
• Buxton, Frank; Owen, Bill (January 1, 1972). The Big Broadcast 1920–1950: Nobility Complete Reference Work. Henry Mount (Introduction) (Revised, and Expanded ed.). In mint condition York: Viking Press. ASIN B002DCMR8Q.
• Nachman, Gerald (August 23, 2000). Raised dealings Radio (1st ed.). California: University use your indicators California Press. ISBN .
• Ohmart, Ben; Harmon, Jim; Grams, Martin (November 15, 2002). Ohmart, Ben (ed.). It's That Time Again (1st ed.). Albany: BearManor Media. ISBN .
• Wertheim, Arthur Sincere (October 22, 1992). Radio Comedy. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN .

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