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The Official Site of Helen Hayes
Radio Performances
1928 Up From the Streets
21 October 1928. With Roger Pryor, Peggy Wood, Heywood Broun and others. A biography of Alfred E. Smith. Script in the New York Historical Society Library.
1929 Romeo and Juliet
With Alexander Woollcott as Romeo and the Nurse.
1930 Collier's Hour
5 October. NBC, WJZ
1931 Child Health Day
1 May. NBC
1932 Wandering Around Little Old Broadway
17 January. NBC,WJZ
Mrs. Blake's Radio Column
26 January. NBC, WEAF
1933 The Rudy Vallee Show
20 April. NBC. Scene from What Every Woman Knows. With John Buckler. Sponsored by Standard Brands. The Rudy Vallee Show was one of the first radio programs to feature stars of the theater in dramatic sketches written specifically for radio. Scenes from Broadway plays had previously been the radio standard.
The Rudy Vallee Show
24 August. NBC. Scene from
The Little Minister. Sponsored by Standard Brands.
Ipana Troubadors
4 October. NBC. Scene with John Beal. Sponsored by Bristol Myers Company Ipana Toothpaste.
1934 Real Silk Program
18 March. NBC.
1935 Lux Radio Theatre
Hayes appears in the inaugural program.
The Rudy Vallee Show
4 July. NBC. Sponsored by Standard Brands.
1935-
1936
The Helen Hayes Theatre Series
1 October-March. The NBC Blue Network. Programs in the series include: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir with Maurice Evans and Lady of Letters with Les Tremayne.
The New Penny Series
The NBC Blue Network. Hayes stars as a small-town rebel, with Joseph Muir as her leading man. Produced and written by Edith Meiser. Sponsored by Sanka Coffee and General Foods.
1935 New York Herald Tribune Forum
16 October. NBC. The American Theatre Comes of Age
1936-
1937
Bambi Series
28 September-March. With Hayes in the title role. Sponsored by Sanka Coffee and General Foods.
1937 Streamlined Shakespeare
NBC. Guest Appearances.
Chase and Sanborn Coffee Hour
12 March. NBC. Guest appearance with host Don Ameche.
American Theater Council Luncheon
24 May. NBC. WEAF. Address by Hayes.
The Magic Key of RCA
13 June. Proposal scene form Victoria Regina. With Vincent Price and George MacReady.
What Every Woman Knows
1 August. NBC, WJZ. With Ina Claire and Osgood Perkins.
Eugene O'Neill Play Cycle
2 August. NBC Blue Network, WEAF. Beyond the Horizon. With Peggy Wood.
1938 Lux Radio Theatre
27 June. NBC. Jane Eyre. With Robert Young as Rochester.
Cathay Circle Theatre Broadcast
8 July. NBC. Hayes' address at the premiere of Marie Antoinette. Los Angeles, CA.
The Silver Theatre
CBS, WABC. Stars in Their Courses and Crossroads For Two
1938-
1939
The Campbell's Playhouse
CBS. Orson Welles produces, directs and acts in each of the series programs. Sponsored by Campbell's Soups. Recordings for this season in the Museum of Television and Radio, New York.
1939 Chase and Sanborn
12 March. NBC. Proposal scene from Victoria Regina. With Vincent Price and Don Ameche. Sponsored by Brands.
The Screen Guild Theater
CBS. Guest appearance to benefit the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Sponsored by Gulf Oil.
1940 Yesterday's Children
NBC Blue Network. Hayes is a guest on the series which "presents famous men and women who explain why a particular book has been their favorite."
Dupont Cavalcade of America
21 May. NBC, WJZ. Jane Addams of Hull House.
We Think of England
20 September. NBC, Red Network. Excerpt from Noel Coward's "Calvacade." With Newlson Eddy, Clifton Fadiman, and Rudy Vallee.
1940-
1941
The Helen Hayes Theatre of the Air
28 September-December. CBS. Hayes is producer, casting director, editor and actress. Contemporary drama series. Announcer, George Bryan. Music by Mark Warnow. Sponsored by Lever Brothers and Lipton Tea.
1941 Free Milk Fund for Babies
17 January. NBC, WJZ. Metropolitan Opera Benefit Performance. Scene from Twelfth Night.
Salute to Ethel Barrymore: Forty Years a Star
4 February. NBC. Appearance commemorating Barrymore's 40th anniversary.
Defense Savings Program
11 June. NBC Red Network, WEAF. With Eleanor Roosevelt.
Helen Hayes Interviewed
26 June. WHN. Interviewer, Stuart Craig.
1942 Stage Door Canteen
CBS. Guest Appearance.
Dupont Cavalcade of America
29 June. NBC.
Hymn from the Night.
Dear Adolf
12 July. NBC. Hayes read one of the half-dozen
Letters to Hitler by Stephen Vincent Benet.
March of Time
12 November. NBC. Hayes reads
Terry and the Stars by Gene Fowler.
1943 That They Might Live
28 March. NBC. A plea for nurses to join the Red Cross.
Family Time
12 April. NBC. War bond promotion.
Council for Democracy
17 April. NBC. Poetry reading in tribute to Stephen Vincent Benet.
Dupont Cavalcade of America
31 May. NBC. Mr Lincoln's Wife. Starring Helen Hayes.
Girl Scouts of America
25 June. NBC.
Season For Giving
22 November. NBC. Special Thanksgiving program. Hayes stars in a skit called Point of View.
Dupont Cavalcade of America
20 December. NBC. Hayes star in A Child is Born by Stephen Vincent Benet.
The Radio Hall of Fame
NBC Blue network. Harriet. Sponsored by Variety.
1944 Your Share in a Lasting Peace
10 January. NBC. Broadcast from New York City. Commemorates Carrie Chapman Catt's 85th birthday.
Here's to Youth
15 January. NBC. Address.
Milk Fund Program
24 February. NBC. Scene from Hayes' play, Harriet.
Ellery Queen, Armchair Detective
4 March. NBC. Sponsored by Emerson Drug Company.
Sixth Victory Loan
12 April.
Dupont Cavalcade of America
8 May. NBC. Autobiography of an Angel.
U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps Induction
13 May. NBC.
Fifth War Loan Drive
13 June. NBC. Hayes promotes sale of war bonds.
Arthur Hopkins Presents
26 July. NBC. The Lady with a Lamp.
NBC Parade of Stars
September 25.
Republican National Committee
October 23. NBC. Mistress of Ceremonies for Women's Republican Clubs of Massachusetts program encouraging the election of Republican candidates.
1945 This is Helen Hayes
February 25- July 1. Mutual Broadcasting System. Sponsored by Textron. Series to encourage recruiting of Army and Navy nurses.
1945-
1946
Textron Theatre Starring Helen Hayes
September 8-March 6. CBS. Sponsored by Textron.
1946 Victory Clothing Collection
January. World Broadcasting System. Hayes stars in Birthday Ahead. Recording in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives.
Theatre Guild of the Air
April 28. Sponsored by U.S. Steel. Mary of Scotland.
Dupont Cavalcade of America
May 6. NBC. The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown.
Dupont Cavalcade of America
May 27. NBC. Spin a Silver Dollar.
Catholic Charities Campaign
June 22. WABC. Hayes plays the role of Mother Cabrini and is thanked on radio by Cardinal Spellman for her charity work.
Hi! Jinks
July 27. NBC. Recording made at Suffern Playhouse, New York, with Mary MacArthur in an excerpt from Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire. Hi! Jinks was hosted by Jinx Falkenberg McCrary. Sponsored by Schonbrunn and Ohrbach.
Theatre Guild of the Air
September 8. Angel Street. Sponsored by U.S.
Mary Margaret McBride Program
January 22. NBC. Guest appearance.
Salvation Nell
26 January. NBC. Hayes stars in a special program presented in cooperation with the Salvation Army.
1947 Hi! Jinks
February 18. NBC. Sponsored by Bond Clothes.
Tribute to Ellen Terry
February 27. NBC. Hayes joins John Gielgud, Jane Cowl, Ingrid Bergman, Cornelia Otis Skinner, and Eva Le Gallienne in a radio tribute to actress Ellen Terry, on the centenary of her birth.
Jim Fleming Show
April 7. NBC. A recording of the Awards presentation at the Waldorf Astoria where Hayes is presented the first annual Antoinette Perry [Tony] Award for Happy Birthday.
Mary Margaret McBride Program
May 2. NBC. Guest appearance.
Theatre Guild of the Air
June 29. Alice-Sit-by-the-Fire.
Hi! Jinks
October 6. NBC. Guest Appearance. Sponsored By Schonbrunn & Ohrbach.
Dupont Cavalcade of America
November 3. The Flame. Hayes portrays Carrie Chapman Catt.
Theatre Guild of the Air
November 9. Victoria Regina. Sponsored By U.S. Steel.
Hi! Jinks
December 22. Guest on program recorded at the opening of Paulette Goddard's antique shop. Sponsored by Schonbrunn & Ohrbach.
Dupont Cavalcade of America
December 14. NBC. The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams.
1948 Dupont Cavalcade of America
April 5. NBC. Stars as Rebecca Luckens in Woman of Steel.
The Ford Theatre Series
CBS.
Dupont Cavalcade of America
December 14. NBC. The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams.
Hi! Jinks
May 3. NBC. Guest with Charles MacArthur. Sponsored by Schonbrunn & Ohrbach.
1949 Electric Theatre
November 14-May. CBS. Star of weekly dramatizations. Sobbin' Women, Being Nice to Emily, The Littlest Angel, Arrowsmith, Young Woodley, and Skylark.
Mary Margaret McBride Program
December 22. NBC, WNBC. Guest appearance.
Theatre Guild of the Air
November 13. As Laura in Brief Encounter. Sponsored by U.S. Steel.
Theatre Guild of the Air
January 15. NBC. As Stella in Another Language. Sponsored by U.S. Steel.
1950 The Quick and the Dead
July 6. NBC. Documentary on atomic war. Hayes plays Dr. Lise Meitner.
1951 Council of the Living Theatre
January 10. NBC. 200th Anniversary. Hayes reprises a scene from Mary of Scotland.
Theatre Guild of the Air
January 16. NBC. As Amanda in The Glass Menagerie. Sponsored by U.S. Steel.
Theatre Guild of the Air
June 1. NBC. As Nora Trindell in Remember the Day. Sponsored by U.S. Steel.
1952 NBC Symphony Orchestra
March 15. NBC. Guest appearance representing Girl Scouts of America.
American Legion Auxiliary
August 27. NBC. Hayes is given award from Denver, Colorado.
Theatre Guild of the Air
September 7. NBC. Sponsored by U.S. Steel. Bound East for Cardiff and The Long Voyage Home.
Theatre Guild of the Air
September 14. NBC. Sponsored by U.S. Steel. The Wisteria Trees. As Lucy Andree Ransdell.
Victoria Regina
October 3.
Theatre Guild of the Air Highlights
September 20. Special program salutation the eighth season of Theatre Guild of the Air. Hayes performs a scene for The Glass Menagerie.
1953 Medicine U.S.A.
April 25. NBC. Hayes stars in The Fight Against Pain.
Mary Margaret McBride Program
September 4.
NBC Star Playhouse
October 4. As Maggie in What Every Woman Knows.
NBC Star Playhouse
October 11. Hayes introduces Frederic March.
NBC Star Playhouse
November 1.
Victoria Regina
Dinner With the President
November 23. NBC. Guest performer at dinner held on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary of Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. President Eisenhower is honored with an award.
1954 United Cerebral Palsy Tribute to Eugene O'Neill
May 15. NBC. Hayes portrays Lavinia in a a scene from O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra.
Sunday with Garroway
July 11. NBC. Hayes discusses summer theater and its contributions to the show business world, as well as to the country in general.
Weekend
August 29. NBC. Hayes talks about polio.
1955 Theatre Wing 'Tony' Awards
March 27. NBC. Hayes is presenter.
Biographies in Sound
January 23. NBC. I Know Gertude Lawrence.
Biographies in Sound
March 6. NBC. Hayes reads an excerpt from Victoria Regina.
Biographies in Sound
May 8. NBC. Meet Helen Hayes.
Anthology
May 15. NBC. Hayes reads from The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman.
Anthology
May 29. NBC. Hayes reads Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Monitor: Inaugural Broadcast
June 12. NBC.
Monitor
June 18. NBC. Interviewed, with Mary Martin, by Al Capstagg at the Paris Festibal as they weigh in their luggage for the trans-Atlantic flight to the Paris Festival.
Helen Hayes
December 12-January 20. NBC. Hayes recounts dramatic stories with unusual human interest.
1956 Weekday
January 23. NBC.-July 27. NBC. Hayes presents short, dramatic stories.
Biographies in Sound
January 17. NBC. Hayes narrates The Breath of Life, the story of a young victim of poliomyelitis.
Biographies in Sound
January 24. NBC. Mister John-The Golden Story. Hayes recalls the time she refused to star in one of producer Goldens' plays.
Republican National Committee
November 3. NBC. Governor Thomas E. Dewey answers questions posed by a group of distinguished citizens.
1957 Monitor
April 21. NBC. Interview as Hayes films CBS Playhouse 90's Four Women in Black.
Nightline
May 8. NBC. Hayes participates in a press conference with newspaperman paying tribute to Charles MacArthur.
Monitor
December 15. Interview with Hayes about her varied roles on stage, how she makes herself appear taller for certain parts.
Nightline
December 12. NBC. Interview by Millie Consadine.
1958 One Red Rose For Christmas
December 7. CBS.
1963 The General Electric Theatre
Hayes heads a repertory company in an attempt to re-establish radio drama.
1979 Interview
December. Los Angeles, WGRC.
1980-
1986
The Best Years
1500+, 3 minute commentaries on 175 radio stations. Produced by Gladney Communications for Mutual Omaha insurance company.
This information is from:

Helen Hayes: A Bio-Bibliography
Murphy, Donn B. and Stephen Moore.
Greenwood Press: Westport, CN, London: 1993, 355 pp. PN 2287.H35M87 1993

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