Cathy Lewis
Welcome back to the mystery and comedy old time radio podcast. please welcome to the show this morning to chill our spines Ms cathy Lewis. Mrs Cathy Lewis is most identified as the sensibly droll secretary Jane Stacy rooming with scatterbrained Irma Peterson (Marie Wilson) in the 1947–54 radio and television comedy My Friend Irma. In recognition of her work as Jane Stacy, she received the Ideal Secretary Award from the Executive Secretaries Club in 1948. She would play Jane Stacy until 1949 taking some time off from September 1948 and through the rest of the season due to overwork. She appeared on Sam Spade and I Love a Mystery. She worked with and publicly assessed the radio performances of some of the greatest screen talents of the day, including Gregory Peck, Joan Crawford, Joseph Cotten, June Havoc, and Humphrey Bogart. Lewis met actor Elliott Lewis (who had the same surname) when they recorded at The Woodbury Playhouse on November 6, 1940.On April 30, 1943, while Elliott was on leave from the Army, they married at Chapman Park Hotel in Los Angeles. Elliott's uncle Eddie Raiden was best man. Together, the couple worked on such old time radio classics as Voyage of the Scarlet Queen and Suspense. They earned a combined income of $90,000 per year. Both Lewises were staples of vintage American radio in numerous, genre-spanning works in comedy and drama (they were, for example, regulars among what was known as Hollywood's Radio Row group of performers, appearing often--together and separately--on such programs as The Whistler),especially their co-creation of the anthology series On Stage. Together they wrote an episode of Suspense titled "The Thirteenth Sound" that aired in 1947 and an episode of Twelve Players titled "Checkerboard" that aired in 1948.The Lewises separated on their fourteenth anniversary, and Lewis filed for divorce, on the grounds of mental cruelty. The divorce was granted on April 16, 1958.Most of her film work in the 1940s was in uncredited bit parts. She recreated her My Friend Irma role on television for the show's first two seasons, but, overworked and tired of the role, left the show in 1953. She had a supporting role in The Party Crashers (1958), a film now noted as the final screen appearances of troubled legend Frances Farmer and former child star Bobby Driscoll. That same year, she and Elliott Lewis divorced, putting an end to their image as "Mr. and Mrs. Radio." A year later, she starred as half the title of a short-lived bid to bring another radio show, Fibber McGee and Molly, to television, with Bob Sweeney as Fibber to Lewis's Molly. The show initially had mixed reviews,but it was canceled during its first season.[21]:95 In 1961, Lewis received positive notice for her supporting role in the movie The Devil at 4 O'Clock.She began a recurring role as Deirdre Thompson, the snooty sister of George Baxter, on the television hit Hazel.[23] Lewis played a widow courted by two muleskinners (Ken Curtis and Denver Pyle) in the 1964 episode "Graydon's Charge" of the syndicated series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. but today Miss Kathy Lewis comes to the show to reenact two of her suspense performances in this first one she plays a woman who feels like she's been mistreated by her husband and wants her affair to be kept in secret with the man that is going to kill her husband. it is called murder for Myra. and then the second episode starring Mr Elliot Lewis and Kathy Lewis. she plays a woman who is walking down a road and hitching her thumb out for a ride and gets picked up by man and the man is so enamored with her beauty that he is up running over a man in the middle of the road. it is called run sheep run. and then his final episode this Kathy Lewis and Miss Maire Wilson star in the CBS comedy show my friend Irma. it is called the Red head I hope you guys enjoy Miss Kathy Lewis and our performance on the show for today please join me tonight for Mr Edward Robertson and enjoy the show --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mysterycomedypod1942/support