Betty and Bob
Betty and Bob is a 1930s radio soap opera created by Frank and Anne Hummert, following secretary Betty and businessman Bob Drake through domestic melodrama.
Betty and Bob is a 1932-1940 radio soap opera. The soap opera follows the lives of Betty and Bob Drake. Betty was a secretary who falls madly in love with her boss, bachelor Bob Drake. The two wed and each day, the subject matter dealt with everything from love to hate, jealousy to divorce, murder to betrayal, and collusion to insanity.
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Original schedule
- 1932–19333:00 PM ETNBC Blue Network · afternoonSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1933–19364:00 PM ETNBC Blue Network · eveningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1937–193810:00 AM ETCBS Radio Network · morningSuMoTuWeThFrSa
- 1938–19402:00 PM ETNBC Red Network · afternoonSuMoTuWeThFrSa
D
Dick Post
Announcer
Harlow Wilcox
Announcer
PPierre Andre
Announcer
Alice Reinheart
Cast
AArthur Kohl
Cast
CCarlton Brickert
Cast
C
Cliff Soubier
Cast
D
Dick Holland
Cast
D
Donald 'Don' Kraatz
Cast
D
Donna Reade
Cast
D
Dora Johnson
Cast
E
Edmond 'Eddie' O'Brien
Cast
E
Eileen Palmer
Cast
E
Elaine Kent
Cast
Elspeth Eric
Cast
EEverett Sloane
Cast
F
FFlorence Malone
Cast
Frank Lovejoy
Cast
H
JHarriette 'Harriet' Widmer
Cast
Janet Logan
Cast
J
LJeanne Juvelier
Cast
Linda Watkins
Cast
MMalcolm Meachum
Cast
M
Mary Mason
Cast
Olan Soule
Cast
R
RRay Suber
Cast
Robert Sloane
Cast
R
Rupert LaBelle
Cast
S
Sarajane Wells
Cast
A
Alice Hill
Betty Drake
Arlene Francis
Cast
B
Beatrice 'Betty' Churchill
Betty Drake
Betty Winkler
Marcia
Bill Bouchey
Harvey Brew
Carl Frank
Cast
Don Ameche
Bob Drake
DDonald Briggs
Tony Harker
D
Dorothy Shideler
Mae Drake - Bob's Mother
E
Edith Davis
Betty
E
Edwin Pacelli
Bobby Drake
E
Eleanor Dowling
Ethel Grainger
E
EElizabeth Reller
Betty Drake
Eloise Kummer
Kathy Stone
E
EEthel Kuhn
Pamala Talmadge
Ethel Owen
Carlotta Van Every
Forrest Lewis
Jim Howard
Francis X. Bushman
Peter Standish
FFrank Dane
George
G
Grace Lockwood
Mrs. Cary
H
Harry Saxe
William, the butler
H
Herbert 'Herb' Nelson
Carl Grainger
J
J. Anthony Hughes
Bob Drake
J
Judith Lowery
Mrs. Drake
Les Tremayne
Bob Drake
L
Loretta Poynton
Madeline
M
Marion B. Crutcher
Mary Rose Spenser Vance
Mercedes McCambridge
Betty Drake
Ned Wever
Alan Bishop
O
Onslow Stevens
Bob Drake
P
Peggy Wall
Blue Howard
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