No Time for
Comedy
Theater of Romance
Broadcast:
CBS - Tuesday, November 20, 1945
Author:
S. N. Behrman
Adapted: Joel
Malone and
Stanley Rubin
Host - Frank Graham
Gaylord Esterbrook - Jimmy Stewart
Theater of Romance (CBS) ran for twelve
years between 1943 and 1957 as a thirty minute
filler for a number of old time radio shows. The
content, directors, performers and producers
changed often during the run of the series, but
maintained its theme. When the show picked up
sponsor Colgate Tooth Powder in the years
1944-1946, big names like Henry Fonda, Errol
Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Shirley Temple, Orson
Welles, Gregory Peck and James Stewart began to
appear on the show. Theatre of Romance
became the half hour version of the Lux Radio
Theater for the Colgate Company, with
stories adapted from the the movies and
historical fiction. Frank Graham hosted the show
for most of its years. In the later years, the
show was called Romance.
