Episode 567 - Mouse House of Mystery (The Whistler, Sam Spade, & Philip Marlowe)

Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives)

Jack Mooney

Arts, Performing Arts, Mystery, Detectives, Old, Radio, Time, Tv & Film, Oldtimeradio

4.6 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Old time radio fans will recognize some of their favorite performers' voices popping up in classic Disney films, and today we'll hear three of those stars in radio mysteries. Before she was Cruella de Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, Betty Lou Gerson was a faded movie star who plans to marry into money in "The Girl Next Door" from The Whistler (originally aired on CBS on August 20, 1947). And years before he menaced Peter Pan as Captain Hook, Hans Conried played Sam Spade's client - a butler whose employers have a house full of secrets - in "The Bouncing Betty Caper" (an AFRS rebroadcast from December 12, 1948). Finally, you can still hear Paul Frees as the "Ghost Host" of the Haunted Mansion, and we'll also enjoy his performance as an eccentric poet in "The Cloak of Kamehameha" from The Adventures of Philip Marlowe (originally aired on CBS on April 23, 1949).

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0:00.0	Get this and get it straight.
0:02.0	Crime is a sucker's road,
0:04.0	and those who travel it'd wind up in the gut of the prison of the grave.
0:07.0	The story you're about to hear is true. The
0:12.5	The story you were about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:18.5	The Adventures of Sam Spade Detective.
0:21.5	The Adventures of the Saints starring Vincent Prize.
0:25.0	Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account.
0:30.0	America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator
0:33.2	yours truly Johnny Deller The Hello and welcome to down these mean streets and more mysteries from the
1:00.4	golden age of radio. While I have to apologize again for another delay.
1:06.0	I'd hope to get a show out before our family trip last week.
1:11.0	That unfortunately didn't happen. Then I returned from that trip just in time for a production of the live radio plays that I write and produce in my hometown.
1:22.0	All of that meant there was no time to get in front of the microphone
1:25.9	and share some old time radio detective stories with you. But to make it up, I've got three great shows today inspired by the destination of our
1:36.6	family vacation Disney World.
1:40.0	I just spent a week there enjoying it not only for myself but through the eyes of my seven-year-old
1:45.3	daughter.
1:46.7	And the trip reminded me of how many great radio actors also lent their voices to classic Disney animated films.
1:56.5	So today I've got three shows featuring three veterans of Disney productions.
2:03.7	First up is Betty Lou Gerson, who voiced Cruella de Ville, one of Disney's most iconic villainesses
2:11.3	in 101 Dalmatians. On the nicer side of the street, she was also the narrator
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