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Life Can Be Beautiful
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Life Can Be Beautiful was a daytime radio drama broadcast on NBC and CBS during its 16-year run. The program was also facetiously known to many as Elsie Beebe, a contrived acronym based on the show's initials.
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Cast & Crew
Bob Dixon
Announcer
D
DDick Stark
Announcer
Don Hancock
Announcer
EEd Herlihy
Announcer
E
Ed Roberts
Announcer
G
George A. Putnam
Announcer
H
NHugh Conover
Announcer
Nelson Case
Announcer
Ralph Edwards
Announcer
RRon Rawson
Announcer
Bill Zuckert
Cast
BBryna Raeburn
Cast
CClaire Niesen
Cast
D
Denver Darling
Cast
Edgar Stehli
Cast
EElsie Hitz
Cast
Gavin Gordon
Cast
G
George O. Petrie
Cast
Joan Tetzel
Cast
J
John Parrish
Cast
J
LJoseph 'Joe' Julian
Cast
Len Sterling
Cast
Lucille Wall
Cast
M
Madeleine Pierce
Cast
Mandel Kramer
Cast
MMargot Stevenson
Cast
Mary Patton
Cast
M
Merrill Joels
Cast
Minerva Pious
Cast
P
SPeter Kappel
Cast
Selena Royle
Cast
Vinton Hayworth
Cast
CChick Vincent
Director
D
Don Becker
Director
O
Oliver Barbour
Director
Adelaide Klein
Mrs. S. Kent Wadsworth
Agnes Moorehead
Nellie Conrad
Alice Reinheart
Carol "Chichi" Conrad [1938-46]
Amzie Strickland
Grace Garcine
Cameron Prud'Homme
Father McCary
CCarl Eastman
Toby Nelson
CCharles Paul
Organist
CCharles Webster
Dr. Markham
C
Clayton 'Bud' Collyer
Logan Smith
D
Dick Nelson
Barry Markham
E
Earle Larimore
Stephen Hamilton
Ed Begley
Oscar Finch
EEthel Owen
Nellie Gleason
H
HHerschel Leucke
Organist
Humphrey Davis
Al Douglas
IIan Martin
Hank Bristow
JJohn Holbrook
Stephen Hamilton
JJohn Moore
Hank O'Hoolihan
M
MMildred Robin
Priscilla Wadsworth
Mitzi Gould
Rita Yates
Paul Stewart
Gyp Mendoza
Peggy Allenby
Mrs. Markham
RRalph Locke
Papa David Solomon
Richard Kollmar
Barry Markham
Roger DeKoven
Dr. Myron Henderson
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