Young Widder Brown
Young Widder Brown was an NBC daytime serial created by Frank and Anne Hummert about Ellen Brown, a widowed mother raising two children while running a tearoom in Simpsonville. The soap opera aired from 1938 to 1956.
Young Widder Brown was a daytime radio drama series broadcast on NBC from 1938 to 1956. Sponsored by Sterling Drugs and Bayer Aspirin, it daily examined the life of "attractive Ellen Brown, with two fatherless children to support."
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Young Widder Brown. Radio program.
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George Ansboro
Announcer

Abby Lewis
Cast
CCecil Roy
Cast
CCourt Benson
Cast

Don MacLaughlin
Cast
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Elaine Kent
Cast
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Estelle Levy
Cast

Florence Williams
Cast

James Meighan
Cast
JJohn Moore
Cast

Joseph Curtin
Cast

Mandel Kramer
Cast

Paul McGrath
Cast

Raymond Edward Johnson
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Ronald Liss
Cast

Tom Tully
Cast
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Wilmer Walter
Cast
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Ed Slattery
Director
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Martha Atwell
Director
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Richard Leonard
Director

Agnes Young
Maria Hawkins
AAlan Bunce
Peter

Alexander Scourby
Herb Temple
AAlice Yourman
Maria Hawkins
AArline Blackburn
Barbara Storm
AAthena Lorde
Maggie Sprague

Bennett Kilpack
Uncle Josh
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Bess McCammon
Olivia McEvoy

Cameron Prud'Homme
Asa Walker

Charita Bauer
Millie Baxter
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DClayton 'Bud' Collyer
Peter Turner
Dick Van Patten
Mark
EEric Dressler
Herb Temple
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EEthel Intropidi
Hulda
Ethel Remey
Victoria Loring, Mrs. Charlotte Brown
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Eva Parnell
Alicia Grayson

Florence Freeman
Cast
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FFlorence Malone
Martha
Frank Lovejoy
Roger Power
HHelen Shields
Joyce Turner, Evelyn Turner

House Jameson
Herbert Temple
IIrene Hubbard
Mrs. Tyson
JJames Sherman
Dr. Douglass
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Jane Erskine
Miss Todd
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Jimmy McCallion
Jimmy Davis

Joan Banks
Camilla

Joan Tompkins
Joyce Turner, Noreen Temple
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John MacBryde
Luke Baxter
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JJohn Winters
Organist
Joy Hathaway
Nelson Davis
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Kay Strozzi
Victoria Loring
L
Lili Valenti
Yvonne
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Lorene Scott
Maria Hawkins
L
Louis Hall
Hope Wayne Munks
M
Marcel Journet
Cast

Marilyn Erskine
Janey Brown
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Muriel Starr
Mrs. Garvin

Ned Wever
Anthony Loring
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Ray Largay
Frederick Nelson
R
Robert Haag
Wayne Gardner
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