Word: gosden
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Check and Double Check (RKO). Knowing that the cinema audience is to a large extent the radio audience of the U. S., the producers of any effort whose cast included Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and Andy (Charles J. Correll) could be certain of attention at the box office. But material like this could command nothing but the very mildest attention if the radio audience were not the cinema audience. The explanation of the success of the blackface pair in broadcast is that they have created a fiction just funny enough to make people want to hear its nightly continuation...
...team of George Searcy (Moran) and Charles E. Sellers (Mack) worked together in vaudeville and revues for twelve years. They were famed as the leading blackface 'pair in the U. S. long before the rise of Freeman F. Gosden (Amos) and Charles J. Correll (Andy), who two years ago earned $100 a week and who this year received a guarantee of $350,000 for their forthcoming RKO picture, Check and Double Check. Although the Moran & Mack badinage lacked continuity, some critics still think that Moran & Mack were much funnier than Amos 'n Andy. Last December Moran broke...
Born. To Freeman ("Amos") Gosden, blackface broadcaster, teammate of Charles ("Andy") Correll; a daughter. Weight: 5 Ibs. Name: Virginia Marie...
Robert H. Lucas, U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, telegraphed "Amos 'n' Andy" (real names: Freeman F. Gosden and Charles J. Correll), famed radio blackface comedy team (TIME, March 3), in response to their petition that he extend time for filing the tax return of their business enterprise-Fresh-Air Taxi Co. of America, Incorpulated: "This propolition has been most doubtful, but restention will be granted...
After that, radio's invisible filaments slowly sensitized the entire nation to their talk, and the nation liked it. They have always written every word of their material. They make phonograph records as Amos 'n' Andy and, of their singing, as Correll & Gosden. In 1927 both were married. They are completely absorbed by their work; wherever they go they mingle with Negroes to develop their style and substance. Negroes delight in them because they recreate, not burlesque, the Negro attitude and idiom. Those who have seen them broadcast say that they often have to smother their...