| 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
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