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THE SHADOW'S GIRL STRIKES BACK
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OK, dear and constant reader, let's talk about "The Shadow". IN the beginning the character was nothing more than the HOST of a radio program called "Detective Stories" on NBC---rather like Raymond on INNER SANCTUM and The Man in Black on SUSPENSE (both of which came later). He took no part in the stories themselves. He also hosted Street and Smith's other radio anthology "Love Stories" for awhile (no one has managed to figure out why). James Lo Curto (and, later, Frank Readick) portrayed this creepy host from 1930 until about 1937.
It was around this time that Street and Smith bowed to public pressure which had been demanding copies of "The Shadow Magazine" which didn't exist and finally created it with the inestimable help of Walter B. Gibson who (under the nom-de-plume of Maxwell Grant) wrote THE LIVING SHADOW---the first of over 280 Shadow novels he was destined to write and THIS is when the radio program BECOMES "The Shadow" as legions and generations of fans have come to know it. It is at this point that Orson Welles steps before the microphone for the FIRST time as "Lamont Cranston---aka THE SHADOW" with Agnes Moorehead as his "friend and companion" (whatever THAT may have meant) "the lovely Margo Lane."
Other actors would inherit the part as the years passed---Bill Johnstone, John Archer, (and, in Australia, Lloyd Lamble would play the part with Lyndall Barbour as Margo). But it was my Uncle Bret Morrison who would play the part the longest. A total of ten years in the end. He was to "The Shadow" what Tom Baker was to Doctor...oh never mind.
The evolution of THE SHADOW is briefly covered in this CD.
Though if you were a fan of the magazine you knew something the radio (and later movie) audiences never knew. Namely that Lamont Cranston WASN'T "The Shadow." THE SHADOW would occasionally use Cranston's identity (with Cranston's full knowledge) when he (Cranston) was out of town. So, THE SHADOW was occasionally CRANSTON but Cranston was never THE SHADOW. It was Kent Allard, a flier who had crash-landed near Tibet, who was REALLY "The Shadow".
This CD is a good introduction to the show and gives you episodes from various periods (a total of SIX 30 minute episodes). I'd recommend it as a great Christmas gift to a young person who may not have had much exposure to the program. |
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