No Time for
Comedy
The Screen Guild Theater
Broadcast:
CBS - Sunday, February 9, 1941
Author:
S. N. Behrman
Adapted: Harry
Krouman
Host - Roger Pryor
Clementine - Hattie McDaniel Linda Paige - Norma Shearer
Gaylord Esterbrook - Walter Abel
Amanda Smith - Mary Astor
The Screen Guild Theater was a popular radio
anthology series during the Golden Age of Radio
broadcast from 1939 until 1952 with leading
Hollywood actors performing in adaptations of
popular motion pictures.
The show had a long run, lasting for 14 seasons
and 527 episodes. It initially was heard on CBS
from January 8, 1939 until June 28, 1948,
continuing on NBC from October 7, 1948 until
June 29, 1950. It was broadcast on ABC from
September 7, 1950 to May 31, 1951 and returned
to CBS on March 13, 1952. It aired under several
different titles: The Gulf Screen Guild Show,
The Gulf Screen Guild Theater, The Lady Esther
Screen Guild Theater and The Camel Screen Guild
Theater.
Actors on the series included Ethel Barrymore,
Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey
Bogart, Eddie Cantor, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby,
Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante, Nelson Eddy, Douglas
Fairbanks Jr., Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Gene
Kelly, Johnny Mercer, Agnes Moorehead, Gregory
Peck, Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra. Fees these
actors would typically charge were donated to
the Motion Picture Relief Fund, in order to
support the creation and maintenance of the
Motion Picture Country Home for retired actors.
