Guest Norma Shearer
This episode honors Canadian soldiers. It opens with the song "The Maple Leaf Forever." Jack Carson then guides listeners on a radio journey across Canada. Mel Blanc shows up to perform as Bugs Bunny. Nelson Eddy performs the song "Rose Marie." The show wraps up with a funny sketch featuring the Hardy Family.
Mail Call was an American radio program that entertained American soldiers from 1942 until 1945, during World War II. Lt. Col. Thomas A.H. Lewis wrote in 1944, "The initial production of the Armed Forces Radio Service was 'Mail Call,' a morale-building half hour which brought famed performers to the microphone to sing and gag in the best American manner." The program featured popular entertainers of that day, such as Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, and Dinah Shore, performing musical numbers and comedy skits to boost the morale of soldiers stationed far from their homes. Lewis added, "To a fellow who has spent months guarding an outpost in the South Seas, Iceland or Africa a cheery greeting from a favorite comedian, a song hit direct from Broadway, or the beating rhythm of a hot band, mean a tie with the home to which he hopes soon to return.
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“Guest Norma Shearer.” Mail Call. Radio broadcast, August 2, 1944.
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