Download The Damon Runyon Theatre, Vol. 1: The Classic Radio Collection AudioBook Free
Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and article writer. He was most widely known for his short tales celebrating the world of New York City's Broadway that grew from the Prohibition age. He created just a little world of people that go on even today in such classic videos as Little Miss Marker and Men and Dolls, both based on Runyon's stories. Professional Alan Ladd's Mayfair Productions helped bring Runyon's short tales to radio in the early 1950s. Each bout of The Damon Runyon Theatre is advised through the sight of your hoodlum with a heart and soul of gold, called Broadway, who needs the listener inside the world of a few of the Big Apple's toughest yet most enchanting perpetrators. Broadway and the many thugs, touts, dames, and palookas he encounters speak in a solid present-tense Brooklynese that is a pleasure for the listener to listen to. John Brown played out Broadway, and the supporting casts were a who's who of radio, including William Conrad, Alan Reed, Frank Lovejoy, Sheldon Leonard, Hans Conreid, Anne Whitfield, and Ed Begley. The series made a brief transition to tv. Included here will be the following episodes, which aired from Oct 1950 to January 1951: "The Hottest Guy on the globe"; "All Horseplayers Die Broke"; "Princess O'Hara"; "For the Pal"; "A bit of Pie"; "Barbecue"; "THE MIND Comes Home"; "Hold 'Em Yale"; "Old Em's Kentucky Home"; "BLOOD CIRCULATION PRESSURE"; "Lonely Heart"; "Broadway Complex".
