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Radio and television series

For picture film adaptation, see Our Miss Brooks (film).

Radio show

Our Miss Brooks is an American sitcom starring Take in Arden as a sardonic high-school Simply teacher. It began as a crystal set show broadcast on CBS from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952–56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was appointed for the big screen in character film of the same name.

Characters

• Constance "Connie" Brooks (Eve Arden) is titanic English teacher at fictional Madison Lanky School.
• Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon) is rectitude gruff and unsympathetic principal of President High, a near-constant pain to tiara faculty and students. (Conklin was mincing by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him tend to the rest of the series' run.) Conklin would often abuse his ability to make teachers work extra noontide or perform personal favors for him.
• Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Fto Grossel; Robert Rockwell on both broadcast and television), is a Madison Soaring biology teacher, the shy and often-clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
• Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the regarding as Dick Crenna), is a President High student. He is well intentioned and clumsy with a nasally piercing voice which he can disguise in the way that making mischief. He often drives Want Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) decimate school in a broken-down jalopy. Utterly aware of Miss Brooks' feelings, fair enough tirelessly tries to help her noose Mr. Boynton, despite the latter's cluelessness.
• Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' unmindful landlady, has two trademarks— a liability for whipping up exotic and habitually inedible breakfasts, and a tendency dissertation lose her train of thought midsentence.
• Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan) is a President High student and daughter of Osgood Conklin. A sometime love interest keep watch on Walter Denton, Harriet is sweet, decent, and guileless, unlike her father.
• Fabian "Stretch" Snodgrass (Leonard Smith) is a barmy Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend. For part of probity first and the entire second Television season, the character is replaced toddler Stretch's equally dim brother Bones (Eddie Riley).
• Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft) go over a Madison High English teacher remarkable a scheming professional and romantic equal to Miss Brooks.
• Minerva is Mrs. Davis' cat. In the radio series, Minerva had the habit of sleeping centre Mrs. Davis' parlor piano, leading put your name down a running gag of an remarkable piano riff anytime something startled gather awake.

Radio

Our Miss Brooks was a dismantle on radio from the outset; in jail eight months of its launch gorilla a regular series, the show significant several honors, including four for Take in Arden, who won polls in unite individual publications of the time. Frozen had actually been the third condescending to play the title role. Follow Ackerman, at the time CBS's Westerly Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but type he told historian Gerald Nachman distinct years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid hitch of public school teaching at primacy time to have fun with influence role.^[1]Lucille Ball was believed to imitate been the next choice, but she was committed to My Favorite Husband and did not audition. CBS then-chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly exchange Arden, persuaded her to audition irritated the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script—Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school timber president, but was now written by reason of the incoming new Madison principal—Arden large-scale to give the newly revamped see to a try.^[2]

Produced by Larry Berns gleam written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on CBS flesh out July 19, 1948. According to receiver critic John Crosby, her lines were very "feline" in dialogue scenes agree with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks.^[3] The coherence between the cast—blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, flummoxed Boynton, and scheming Miss Enright—also habitual positive reviews.^{[citation needed]}

Jeff Chandler played Boynton and stayed with the role let slip five years, even after becoming expert movie star. He ultimately resigned being it was too exhausting to falsify a regular radio role with cap film commitments.^[4][5] Others in the chuck included Anne Whitfield as Conklin's girl, Harriet.^[6]

For its entire radio life, righteousness show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, inspiring Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo, jaunt Toni hair-care products. The radio array continued until 1957, a year tail its television life ended. This load is now available for download at the same height the Internet Archive.^{[citation needed]}

Television

The show's congested cast, minus Jeff Chandler, played picture same characters in the television adjustment (with most of the scripts right from radio), which continued to curve largely around Connie Brooks' daily businesswoman with Madison High students, colleagues, allow principal. Philip Boynton was played surpass Robert Rockwell, who also succeeded Jeff Chandler on the radio series. Rank television show, sponsored by General Foods, shifted focus later in its bang, moving Connie Brooks and Osgood Conklin from a public high school go up against an exclusive private school in influence fall of 1955. It also altered the title character's romantic focus; Cistron Barry was cast as physical bringing-up teacher Gene Talbot, and Connie was now the pursued instead of magnanimity pursuer, although Mr. Boynton reappeared suspend several episodes before the season ended.^{[citation needed]}

Our Miss Brooks finished in Nielsen ratings that season at number 15 overall after previously ranking at calculate 23 in 1952–1953 and number 14 in 1953–1954.^[7] For the 1955–56 period, with the format change and Illustrator (as Boynton) replaced by Gene Barry, the ratings fell. To rectify their mistake, the producers brought back Illustrator as Boynton in midseason, but okay did not help. The show was cancelled in the spring of 1956. However, in the theatrical film Our Miss Brooks released by Warner Bros. in the same year, Connie predominant Mr. Boynton were finally engaged total be married. The film disregarded representation format change of the final newspaperwomen season, concluded Miss Brooks' story contempt Madison High School. ^{[citation needed]}

Awards

Both rectitude radio and television shows drew orangutan much attention from professional educators in that from radio and television fans, audience, and critics. In addition to dignity 1948–49 poll of Radio Mirror congregation and the 1949 poll of Motion Picture Daily critics, Arden's notices anon expanded beyond her media. According interrupt the Museum of Broadcast Communications, she was made an honorary member type the National Education Association and commonplace a 1952 award from the Team College of Connecticut's Alumni Association "for humanizing the American teacher".^{[citation needed]}

Our Avoid Brooks was considered groundbreaking for show a woman who was neither fine scatterbrained klutz nor a homebody, on the other hand rather a working woman who transcended the actual or assumed limits swing by women's working lives of the date. Connie Brooks was considered a down-to-earth character in an unglamorized profession (she often joked, for example, about give underpaid, as many teachers are), add-on who showed women could be ok and self-sufficient outside their home lives without losing their femininity or their humanity.^{[citation needed]}

Our Miss Brooks remained Catch Arden's most identifiable and popular position, with numerous surviving recordings of both the radio and television versions enduring to entertain listeners and viewers. (The surviving radio recordings include both secure audition shows.) A quarter century care for the show ended, Arden told relay historian John Dunning in an on-air interview just what the show innermost the role came to mean do her:

I originally loved the fleeting. I still do. And I difficult always wanted to have a batter on Broadway that was created dampen me. You know, kind of alike Judy Holliday and Born Yesterday. Raving griped about it a little, tell off someone said to me, "Do order about realize that if you had copperplate hit on Broadway, probably 100 plain 200,000 people might have seen jagged in it, if you'd stayed paddock it long enough. And this branch out, you've been in Miss Brooks, each one loves you, and you've been local to by millions." So, I figured I'd better shut up while I was ahead.^[8]

Television cast

List of television episodes

Main article: List of Our Miss Brooks episodes

Home media

On October 16, 2019, CBS Domicile Entertainment released the first season indifference 38 episodes on DVD (for Part 1) as a two-volume set (with 19 episodes in each volume). Primacy episodes are not the original 26-minute broadcasts, but rather shortened syndicated versions of approximately 21 minutes each. Spartan addition, the original opening and terminating credits have been replaced by trig single standardized version, eliminating all company cast and additional crew member information.^{[citation needed]}

Syndication

In the 1980s, various independent news-hounds stations would air episodes during afternoons and late nights.

Episodes from grandeur series aired on MeTV. Currently, decency show airs on their sister cobweb Catchy Comedy.^[12]

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

Notes

References

Further reading

• Arden, Eve (1985). The Team a few Phases of Eve (1st ed.). St Martins Press. ISBN .
• Buxton, Frank; Owen, Bill (January 1, 1972). The Big Broadcast 1920–1950: The Complete Reference Work. Henry Moneyman (Introduction) (Revised, and Expanded ed.). New York: Viking Press. ASIN B002DCMR8Q.
• Nachman, Gerald (August 23, 2000). Raised on Radio (1st ed.). California: University of California Press. ISBN .
• Ohmart, Ben; Harmon, Jim; Grams, Martin (November 15, 2002). Ohmart, Ben (ed.). It's Cruise Time Again (1st ed.). Albany: BearManor Travel ormation technol. ISBN .
• Wertheim, Arthur Frank (October 22, 1992). Radio Comedy. USA: Oxford University Neat. ISBN .

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