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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Hollywood Way | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Producer Cowan says he catches plenty of farm folk both east and west of the Alleghenies, but admits he would like to get more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Farmer Takes a Mike | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mary & Charlie v. David | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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