It's one o'clock and here is Mary Margaret McBride : a radio biography /

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One of the most beloved radio show hosts of the 1940s and 1950s, Mary Margaret McBride (1899-1976) regularly attracted between six and eight million listeners to her daily one o'clock broadcast. During her twenty years on the air she interviewed tens of thousands of people, from President Harry...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ware, Susan, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
McBride, Mary Margaret, > 1899-1976.
McBride, Mary Margaret, > 1899-1976
Radio broadcasters > United States > Biography.
PERFORMING ARTS > Radio > Reference.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Entertainment & Performing Arts.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "Here comes McBride"
  • Mary Margaret's radio technique
  • "Under cover of daytime"
  • Mary Margaret's bond with listeners
  • "The appetite as voice"
  • Doing the products
  • Listening to lives
  • A Missouri childhood
  • Stella
  • The journalist and the writer
  • Men, marriage, and sex
  • Affluence and depression
  • "I murdered grandma"
  • Citrus follies
  • The war years
  • Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary Margaret McBride, and postwar politics
  • Television
  • The last show : May 14, 1954
  • Cookbooks, columns, and commentary
  • "Good-bye, y'all"
  • Epilogue : talk shows, then and now.

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