Word: cowans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paulette Goddard was all set to play Lucretia Borgia. Producer Lester Cowan was about to go ahead with a film version of the late F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited. The Broadway hit of 1927, Burlesque (a hit revival on Broadway in 1947-48), had its title changed to When My Baby Smiles at Me. There would be a remake of Little Women, with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien and Janet Leigh as the four March girls. A sequel to The Jolson Story was announced; this time Al Jolson would play himself...
...believe Producer Louis G. Cowan's radio show, R.F.D. America [TIME, Jan. 5], is for city folks. Rural America, you'll find, retires before 9:30 p.m. (E.S.T.). J. WALTER DAVIS Wrightstown...
...Producer Cowan says he catches plenty of farm folk both east and west of the Alleghenies, but admits he would like to get more...
...show originated with Radio Producer Louis G. Cowan, who got to thinking how important U.S. farm folk are in a hungry world. It occurred to him that radio had no adequate showcase for-or interest in-rural America; even Hooperatings are taken only in the larger cities.So he asked John Lewellen, the Quiz Kids' program director, to work up a proper show. Lewellen, who was raised on a farm near Gaston, Ind., sent his parents out over the R.F.D.s of rural America to drum up interest and recruit performers...
...settle the stock-ownership dispute, a long legal fight was in prospect. Meanwhile, Mary and Charlie were busy lining up more pictures for U.A. with independent producers. Mary, in a new company formed with Lester Cowan (G.I. Joe), planned to produce four pictures of her own next year. She'd show that David...