The run
- Network
- Syndicated
- Years active
- 1940–1950
- Surviving broadcasts
- 19
- Genre
- talk
BEHIND THE SCENES IN HOLLYWOOD Behind the Scenes in Hollywood is a quick paced, breezy production that offers short, lively updates on coming stars, tidbits about movies in production, and descriptions of wardrobes, engagement rings, and colorful movie anecdotes. McCormick introduced the series with these words: "Very few of us have the time or opportunity to visit in and around the movie studios in Hollywood and actually see how motion pictures are made... What really goes on before and after the cameras begin to grind... To talk with the stars, directors, artisans, the cameramen, authors, producers, screenwriters, and stand-ins... To learn at first hand all the interesting, colorful things that bring a completed movie picture to a theatre screen..." To date, the Old Time Radio Researchers Library features eighteen episodes produced in 1945. Each is between ten and twelve minutes. Digitised by the Old Time Radio Researchers and streamed from the Internet Archive item “OTRR_Behind_Scene_Hollywood_Singles”; these recordings are in the public domain.
Source collection
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
Rights
Public domain — no renewed US copyright
Cataloguing
Air dates and notes from the Archive item record
The shape of the run
What survives, year by year
0 dated broadcasts across 11 years on the air, with 11 years where nothing is known to survive. Brightness is transfer quality; empty cells are months lost to time.
Episodes
Start here
Listen to the run in order
Restored broadcasts from NaN, in original transmission order.
- 1. Creating Breastplates for The Robe · Date unknown
- 2. Profiles of Pat O'Brien and Lorraine Day · Date unknown
- 3. Profiles of Hedy Lamar and Danny Kaye · Date unknown
- 01
Creating Breastplates for The Robe
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 02
Profiles of Pat O'Brien and Lorraine Day
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 03
Profiles of Hedy Lamar and Danny Kaye
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 04
Getting Difficult Shots in Movies
Date unknown · 15 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 05
Profiles of Cary Grant and Virginia Mayo
Date unknown · 14 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 06
The Sound Technician's Role in Making Movies
Date unknown · 13 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 07
Profile of Paulette Goddard
Date unknown · 12 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
- 08
The Ban on Sightseers in Productions
Date unknown · 11 min
Broadcast on Syndicated. Transferred from the Internet Archive's Old Time Radio Researchers collection (public domain).
Also on Syndicated
Syndicated in 1940–1950
Other series the network carried while Behind the Scenes in Hollywood was on the air.
Same seasons
talk on the air then
Series in the same genre whose runs overlapped this one.
What it became
The roundtable of experts
Put clever people around one microphone, give them a question from a listener, and let the disagreement be the entertainment. Information Please and Town Meeting invented the format.
Lineage is written by our editors, not inferred from listening data.
Descendants
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