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Irma's On A Budget

Description

Jane uses up all $200 of their savings to pay back the money they owed on a piano. Then Irma goes to the bank and pulls out that same $200, which she uses to buy half a pound of diamond. Joan Banks steps into the role of 'Jane' and her voice is very similar to how Cathy Lewis sounds.

My Friend Irma is a media franchise that was spawned by a top-rated, long-running radio situation comedy created by writer-director-producer Cy Howard. The radio show was so popular in the late 1940s that its success escalated the films, television, a comic strip and a comic book that comprise the franchise. Marie Wilson portrayed the title character Irma Peterson on radio, in two films and the television series. The radio series was broadcast on CBS from April 11, 1947, to August 23, 1954.

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Cast & Crew

C

Cy Howard

creator

R

Roland MacLane

Writer

S

Stanley Adams

Writer

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