Franchot Tone

Information Please is an American radio quiz show, created by Dan Golenpaul, which aired on NBC from May 17, 1938, to April 22, 1951. The title was the contemporary phrase used to request from telephone operators what was then called "information" and later called "directory assistance".

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“Franchot Tone.” Information Please. Radio broadcast, February 28, 1944.