The Damon Runyon Theatre, Vol. 1 Audiobook (Free)

Damon Runyon was a newspaperman and article writer. He was best known for his brief stories celebrating the globe of New York City’s Broadway that grew from the Prohibition era. He created just a little globe of people that live on even today in such traditional movies only a small amount Miss Marker and Guys and Dolls, both based on Runyon’s stories.

Actor Alan Ladd’s Mayfair Productions brought Runyon’s brief stories to radio in the first 1950s. Each bout of The Damon Runyon Theater is told through the eyes about The Damon Runyon Theater, Vol. 1 of a hoodlum using a center of gold called “Broadway,” who requires the listener in the globe of some of the Big Apple’s toughest however most captivating perpetrators. Broadway and the many thugs, touts, dames, and palookas he encounters speak inside a thick present-tense Brooklynese that is clearly a joy for the listener to hear.

John Dark brown played Broadway, and the helping casts were a who’s who of radio, including William Conrad, Alan Reed, Frank Lovejoy, Sheldon Leonard, Hans Conreid, Anne Whitfield, and Ed Begley. The series produced a brief changeover to television.

Included listed below are the following episodes, which shown from October 1950 to January 1951:

“The Hottest Guy in the Globe”

“All Horseplayers Pass away Broke”

“Princess O’Hara”

“To get a Pal”

“A bit of Pie”

“Barbecue”

“The Brain Runs Home”

“Keep ‘Em Yale”

“Old Em’s Kentucky House”

“Blood Pressure”

“Lonely Heart”

“Broadway Organic”