At the start of the 1955 1956 season, madison high was razed for a highway project and miss brooks found a new job at mrs. Miss brooks teaches english at madison high, rents a room from mrs. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. We offer 3 different ways for you to listen to our old time radio shows so that no matter what device you are using pc, laptop, android phone, iphone, ipad, kindle, tablet, etc. Our miss brooks 1956 everyones favorite tarttongued high school english teacher made the transition from radio to television, and then headed to the silver screen once the tv ratings started to slip. Stay in touch with our miss brooks next episode air date and your favorite tv shows. Our miss brooks had been a radio and tv sitcom hit thanks to the considerable input of star eve arden. Eve arden stars as the tarttongued constance brooks, a dedicated english teacher at madison high school. Stories depict her romantic misadventures as she struggles to impress philip boynton. The thirteen best our miss brooks episodes of season one. Our miss brooks online using any of the 3 radio players below. Search for high school classmates, friends, family, and memories in one of the largest collections of online univeristy, college, military, and high school yearbook images and photos. This category is for photos from the television program our miss brooks which aired on us television from 1952 to 1956.
It told the story of an english teacher connie brooks, which was portrayed by american actress eve arden. She eve arden teaches english, flusters the principal gale gordon and flirts with a colleague robert rockwell. Though a few episodes have been featured on cheap public domain sets, the series has never been given an official release. In the 1950s, america adopted our miss brooks as its very own. Our miss brooks was a hit on radio from the outset. Eve arden was wonderful in just about everything she appeared in and the television series our miss brooks was a major highlight in her career and a pleasing situation comedy from 1952 through 1956. Directed by al lewis, who was the chief writer for the radio and tv editions, and written by both him and joseph quillan, the movie disregarded the past four years of television and started with a new storyline. This film was produced towards the end of the tv shows run and features almost all of the regular characters and actors that blessed the screen at least until the illfated. Her humor at times is on the caustic side, but it is nevermeanttohurtintentionally.
Season 3, episode 29 may 27, 1955 after all the male teachers at madison high turn chicken, its connie who must. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet. She is in her late twenties, attractive, poised, very human, and consequently vrywe111iked and respected by the students. Emmy winner eve arden starred as connie brooks in the longrunning radio and tv series about a wisecracking high school english teacher. Our miss brooks premiered on cbs july 19, 1948 and soon became one of the networks most popular comedies, running for nine consecutive years. Old clothes for party lack of coal student government head of english dept. A few episodes have been featured on cheap public domain sets, but the series has never been given an.
Eve arden starred as connie brooks in the longrunning radio and tv series about a wisecracking high school english teacher. Our miss brooks, old time radio the classic archives old time radio channel. Eve arden played a funloving but sometimes frazzled english teacher, connie brooks, a role for which she won an emmy. Produced by larry berns and written and directed by al lewis, our miss brooks premiered on the network on july 19th, 1948. Today were continuing our threeweek series on the best episodes from the tv version of our miss brooks.
Our miss brooks commercial free otr internet archive. It was such a hit among many listeners that during its run, it received several awards including arden winning the radio mirror magazines poll for the best radio comedienne of the year for the years 1948. Eve arden brings the tv and radio character our miss brooks 1956 to. The trials and tribulations of connie brooks, the wisecracking english teacher at madison high school. Boyton to the football game about 2 hours away, but conflict arises when she attempts to pick up her oft broken car from the shop the walters car breaks down while picking up harriet conklin. For technical questions or comments about wprs website, streaming or other digital media products, please use our website feedback form find out how to support wpr view our privacy policy. Our miss brooks 1956 she eve arden teaches english, flusters the principal gale gordon and flirts with a colleague robert rockwell. Our miss brooks, an american situation comedy, starred eve arden as a sardonic high school english teacher. It was a comedy about a wisecracking, spinster english teacher at madison high school who yearns for love with philip boynton, a biology teacher.
Davis, gets rides to school with student walter, fights with principal conklin, and tries to snag shy biology teacher boynton. Our miss brooks began as a radio series in 1948 and migrated to television in 1952 and soon became one of the first hits of the socalled golden age of television, and making famous eve arden 19081990 as comely, a wisecracking, but humane high school english teacher connie brooks. The our miss brooks tv show, like many other comedy series of the day, began on the radio in 1948. Our miss brooks, was a radio sitcom that first aired on cbs radio on july 19, 1948.
The movie provides all the tv shows charm and laughter. Jane morgan december 6, 1880 january 1, 1972 was a britishborn american actress and singer whose career encompassed concert halls, vaudeville, the legitimate stage, radio, television, and film, best known as eve ardens nosy landlady mrs. The series made the transition to television 1952 1956 as well as a big screen film of the same name in 1956 addeddate 20150901 01. Our miss brooks otr free old time radio mp3 downloads. This collection features eighteen classic radio episodes of our miss brooks, starring eve arden in her famous role of connie brooks, madison highs 10th grade english teacher. Featuring a witty professional woman as the central character of the old time radio show, our miss brooks was a groundbreaking concept. With eve arden, gale gordon, don porter, robert rockwell. Costarring gale gordon as principal osgood conklin, jeff chandler as bashful biologist philip boynton, richard crenna as connies student walter denton and jane morgan. Our miss brooks dvdr 1956 warner archive collection. Directed by al lewis, who was the chief writer for the radio and tv editions, and written by both him and joseph quillan, the movie disregarded the. Cookies websites use cookies that have been placed on this site by its operator. Even though were too young to have seen or heard our miss brooks during its broadcast era, we still find the humor and pacing of shows from the 1950s really charming.
Ben mankiewicz intro our miss brooks 1956 our miss brooks original trailer airing. The film version of our miss brooks was not quite as successful why pay for something that. After weeks of highlighting the best episodes of i love lucy, the lucydesi comedy hour, and the honeymooners, today we begin our threeweek stint on the best episodes from the tv version of our miss brooks. This film version was made at the end of the series and is a nice keepsake for fans of the actors and the characters they portrayed. See more ideas about vintage outfits, vintage fashion and 1950s fashion. Aldrich in new york in 1906, the son of vaudevillian charles aldrich and his english actress wife, gloria. Our miss brooks is a 1956 american comedy film based on the radio and tv sitcom hit on cbs of the same name. On feb 20, 2015, we celebrate the 109 birthday of the beloved character actor gale gordon. Our miss brooks is an american situation comedy starring eve arden as a sardonic high school english teacher. Before and after the bell rings, miss brooks turns her thoughts from language to love. Our miss brooks is an american sitcom starring eve arden as a sardonic highschool english teacher.
Our miss brooks 19521956 theme song internet archive. It began as a radio show broadcast on cbs from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television 195256, it became one of the mediums earliest hits. Indulging in her perpetual pursuit of bashful biology. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name. However, i have a dvdr set containing 126 of the episodes. Harry ackerman, at the time cbss west coast director. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for the big screen in the film of the same name. The thirteen best our miss brooks episodes of seasons two. The movie provides all the tv shows charm and laughter plus a dividend for fans. With eve arden, gale gordon, jane morgan, robert rockwell. Audiences could and continue to relate to connie brooks as a clever, sarcastic, kindhearted teacher. Davis and rode to school each morning with one of her students.
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