Villefranche-sur-Mer yacht marina, view of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat and Bay of Cannes with TGV line
As one descends to the yacht marina of the charming seaside town of Villefranche-sur-Mer in the French Riviera, one can see the multi-million Euro homes of the international residents of this South of France seaside community. Across the bay is the ultra billionnaire cape of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat with a clear view of Villa Les Cedres - the most expensive property to come onto the world market.
See the TGV line in Cannes, with the sea as a backdrop.
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St. John Cap Ferrat from above yacht harbour, Villa Rothschild, French Riviera
Saint-Jean Cap Ferrat is an exceptional site and one of the loveliest places on the Mediterranean coast.
The peninsula is situated next to Nice and Villefranche Sur Mer and extends out to Cap Ferrat. Its tranquillity and warm climate make it a favourite holiday destination amongst European aristocracy and international millionaires.
In order to better appreciate the beauty of Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, you can visit on foot by taking the coastal path. It is signposted for 14 km and divided into 3 parts: the tour of Cap Ferrat, the pine-forest and the Maurice Rouvier walk which links Saint Jean Cap Ferrat to Beaulieu.
At the tip of Cap Ferrat, you will find one of the most beautiful palaces in the world, the Grand Hotel du Cap which is set amidst a stunning garden.
Villa Rothschild - The full two floors of the opulent pink villa are open for your exploration, including Madam’s private suite and boudoir. Louis XVI furnishings, priceless paintings and sculptures, a celebrated porcelain collection, the tapestry room, the Fragonard salon and the surreal monkey room dedicated to her two beloved primate companions did I mention that Baronnes Beatrice was a bit eccentric?
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Azimut 62S Italia ONE
Delivery of a new Azimut 62S Italia from the Azimut Delivery Center in Savona (Italy) to the port of call Beaulieu-sur-Mer (France). Before delivery the boat is entirely checked by the yard and the dealer signs Delivery Documents when the boat is fully approved.
Paul Microsoft Allen's luxurious home on St. John Cap Ferrat in France
Paul Allen of Microsoft owned this lovely home, with flowering Judas Trees and Wisteria creepers, in prime St. Jean Cap Ferrat in the South of France, on the Riviera, next to Andrew Lloyd Webber's house. All of no use to Paul Allen now, alas.
See the yachts in the Cap Ferrat marina behind the house and Monto Carlo / Monaco harbour in the backdrop.
Paul Gardner Allen was an American business magnate, investor, researcher, humanitarian, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft alongside Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution and later became the world's largest PC software company.
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LA GRANDE MAISON - 7 BEDROOM HOLIDAY RENTAL GITE - SLEEPS 16 - IN THE MARAIS POITEVIN
La Grande Maison is a fully equipped holiday rental home (sleeping up to 16 people) with swimming pool situated at the southern edge of the Marais Poitevin National Park near to La Rochelle & Niort on the Charente Maritime/Deux-Sevres/Vendee border. It is the former Master's house of the area of La Touche - Le Logis La Touche and has now been completely renovated and restored to showcase some amazing features and character.
The property comprises 7 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 2 kitchens, 2 lounges, WiFi, TVs, satellite TV (UK - Freeview), DVD players, wood burners and swimming pool and fully equipped including bed linen, towels and a welcome pack of essentials.
La Grande Maison is situated in a beautiful & quiet rural area bordering open farmland and faces directly west with amazing sunsets. It is such a peaceful location and well suited for rest & relaxation.
The swimming pool is available during the warmer months of May through to September.
The property is our fully equipped holiday home and we offer it to guests in the exact same fully equipped manner as when we visit - simply because we would like our guests to experience the same joy of holidaying/staying here as we do!
Due to its rural setting you are literally able to walk directly out onto open farmland where you can pick your own blackberries during season from the numerous blackberry bushes which seem to be around every field! The surrounding area is great for cycling (all fairly flat), peaceful walks & jogging and yet it is also centrally located for most of this area's desirable places to visit including La Rochelle, Île de Ré, Coulon, Marais Poitevin National Park, Niort, etc.
The property is also very conveniently located a few miles from the small market town of Mauze Sur Le Mignon which offers two supermarkets (Intermarche and Lidl) along with a pharmacy, 24/7 petrol station, Doctors, bars, restaurants, weekly markets, boutique stores, hairdressers, Church, sports centre with indoor pool .....all you could possibly need during your stay.
Weather:
This area of France has its own unique micro-climate and is the 2nd sunniest area behind the very busy/expensive South of France region. Typical average middle of the day temperatures by month are as follows:-
January - 10°C - sunny intervals - wet - 126mm rain over 16 rain days.
February - 10°C - sunny intervals - wet - 100mm rain over 13 rain days.
March - 13°C - mostly sunny - quite dry - 70mm rain over 10 rain days.
April - 16°C - mostly sunny - quite dry - 81mm rain over 10 rain days.
May - 18°C - mostly sunny - quite dry - 84mm rain over 13 rain days.
June - 22°C - sunny - quite dry - 74mm rain over 13 rain days.
July - 24°C - sunny - dry - 65mm rain over 12 rain days.
August - 25°C - sunny - dry - 53mm rain over 9 rain days.
September - 23°C - mostly sunny - quite dry - 58mm rain over 8 rain days.
October - 20°C - sunny intervals - quite dry - 101mm rain over 13 rain days.
November - 15°C - sunny intervals - wet - 165mm rain over 16 rain days.
December - 11°C - sunny intervals - wet - 208mm rain over 19 rain days.
Shopping:
For those that like to shop there are the large/mega shopping parks such a Centre Commercial Beaulieu (near La Rochelle - 30minutes by car) and Espace Mendes (near Niort - 20minutes by car).
Beautiful location near to major tourist destinations:
La Grande Maison is situated on edge of the Marais Poitevin also known as Green Venice which is one of France's most beautiful national parks set on 95,000 hectares spread over 3 departments – the Vendée, Deux-Sevres and Charente-Maritime. This area is listed as the second largest wetland in France, after the Camargue and there are plenty of places to hire a boat (self paddle and also paddled by a guide) as well as many wonderful local markets, shops, bicycle hire and restaurants.
The stunning coastal town of La Rochelle is a 30 minute car drive away heading west which leads to the magical Île de Ré. In the opposite direction is the picturesque town of Niort which is only a 20 minute car drive away heading east. Both towns offer shopping malls, fine dining, historical and interesting places to visit.
The pristine waterways of Coulon in the Marais Poitevin are only a 20 minute drive away in a northerly direction.
La Rochelle airport (with car hire) is the closest & most convenient airport (30 mins away) which is also where there is a TGV station. However Limoges and Poitiers are both within an hours drive away whilst Nantes and Bordeaux are 2 hours drive away.
If you would like to stay at our 7 bedroom Gite “La Grande Maison” please contact us to find out about availability & rates.
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Nice, French riviera (Cote D'Azur)
This is video from my trip to Nice. I visited also Saint-Tropez, Saint-Raphael, Cannes, Monaco, and San Remo (Italy). My trip took place in June 6th-15th, 2016.
Tourism in the Côte d'Azur France - Best Tourist Attractions
Tourism in the Côte d'Azur France - Best Tourist Attractions
Monaco, Cannes, Saint Tropez, Nice, Saint-Paul-de-Vence and Marseille
The French Riviera (known in French as the Côte d'Azur) is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France. There is no official boundary, but it is usually considered to extend from Cassis or Toulon on the west to the France–Italy border in the east, where the Italian Riviera joins. The coast is entirely within the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (PACA) region of France. The principality of Monaco is a semi-enclave within the region, surrounded on three sides by France and fronting the Mediterranean.
This coastline was one of the first modern resort areas. It began as a winter health resort for the British upper class at the end of the 18th century. With the arrival of the railway in the mid-19th century, it became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales. In the summer, it also played home to many members of the Rothschild family. In the first half of the 20th century, it was frequented by artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, and Aldous Huxley, as well as wealthy Americans and Europeans. After World War II, it became a popular tourist destination and convention site. Many celebrities, such as Elton John and Brigitte Bardot, have homes in the region. Officially, the French Riviera is home to 163 nationalities with 83,962 foreign residents, although estimates of the number of non-French nationals living in the area are often much higher.
Its largest city is Nice, which has a population of 347,060 (2006). The city is the center of a communauté urbaine – Nice-Côte d'Azur – bringing together 24 communes and more than 500,000 inhabitants and 933,080 in the urban area. Nice is home to Nice Côte d'Azur Airport, France's third-busiest airport (after Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport and Paris-Orly), which is on an area of partially reclaimed coastal land at the western end of the Promenade des Anglais. A second airport at Mandelieu was once the region's commercial airport, but is now mainly used by private and business aircraft. The A8 autoroute runs through the region, as does the old main road generally known as the Route nationale 7 (officially now the DN7 in the Var and the D6007 in the Alpes-Maritimes). High-speed trains serve the coastal region and inland to Grasse, with the TGV Sud-Est service reaching Nice-Ville station in five and a half hours from Paris.
The French Riviera has a total population of more than two million. It contains the seaside resorts of Cap-d'Ail, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Villefranche-sur-Mer, Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Cannes, Saint-Raphaël, Fréjus, Sainte-Maxime and Saint-Tropez. It is also home to a high-tech and science park (French: technopole) at Sophia-Antipolis (north of Antibes), and a research and technology center at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis. The region has 35,000 students, of whom 25 percent are working toward a doctorate.
The French Riviera is a major yachting and cruising area with several marinas along its coast. According to the Côte d'Azur Economic Development Agency, each year the Riviera hosts 50 percent of the world's superyacht fleet, with 90 percent of all superyachts visiting the region's coast at least once in their lifetime. As a tourist centre, French Riviera benefits from 310 to 330 days of sunshine per year, 115 kilometres (71 miles) of coastline and beaches, 18 golf courses, 14 ski resorts and 3,000 restaurants.
Some data related to tourism on the Riviera in 2006:
More than 14 million tourists
52% of customers from abroad
65 million nights stayed
Tourists spending €5 billion
75,000 jobs; tourism is 18% of total employment in the Alpes-Maritimes.
500,000 tourists in the High Country
500,000 delegates
3 million admissions to museums and monuments
More than 45% of tourists come by air
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French Riviera
The Côte d'Azur (French pronunciation: [kot daˈzyʁ]; Occitan: Còsta d'Azur; literally: Azure Coast), often known in English as the French Riviera, is the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France, also including the sovereign state of Monaco. There is no official boundary, but it is usually considered to extend from the Italian border in the east to Saint-Tropez, Hyères, Toulon, or Cassis in the west.
This coastline was one of the first modern resort areas. It began as a winter health resort for the British upper class at the end of the 18th century. With the arrival of the railway in the mid-19th century, it became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other aristocrats, such as Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, when he was Prince of Wales. In the summer, it also played home to many members of the Rothschild family. In the first half of the 20th century, it was frequented by artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Edith Wharton, Somerset Maugham, and Aldous Huxley, as well as wealthy Americans and Europeans. After World War II, it became a popular tourist destination and convention site. Many celebrities, such as Elton John and Brigitte Bardot, have homes in the region. Officially, the Côte d'Azur is home to 163 nationalities with 83,962 foreign residents, although estimates of the number of non-French nationals living in the area are often much higher.
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The King
Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, two-time Sundance Grand Jury winner Eugene Jarecki’s new film takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America. From Memphis to New York, Las Vegas, and beyond, the journey traces the rise and fall of Elvis as a metaphor for the country he left behind. In this groundbreaking film, Jarecki paints a visionary portrait of the state of the American dream and a penetrating look at how the hell we got here. A diverse cast of Americans, both famous and not, join the journey, including Alec Baldwin, Rosanne Cash, Chuck D, Emmylou Harris, Ethan Hawke, Van Jones, Mike Myers, and Dan Rather, among many others. - ( Original Title - The King )
LE LOGIS DE LA TOUCHE - LARGE GITE IN THE MARAIS POITEVIN
LE LOGIS DE LA TOUCHE - LARGE GITE IN THE MARAIS POITEVIN REGIONAL PARK - LA GRANDE MAISON - near to La Rochelle, Île de Ré in the Poitou-Charentes area of western France.
Le Logis de La Touche is our luxury fully equipped large holiday rental home/Gite (sleeps 16 guests in 7 bedrooms) in the Marais Poitevin Regional Park near to La Rochelle & Niort on the Charente Maritime/Deux-Sevres border of the Poitou-Charentes region of western France.
The property comprises
7 bedrooms
4 bathrooms
2 fully equipped kitchens
2 lounge/diners each with TV, DVD players, UK Satellite TV (freeview channels) & woodburners
free Wifi throughout the house and most of the rear garden
Inclusive of bed linen, bath/shower towels, etc.
Outdoor swimming pool
This beautiful property has been family owned since 1990 and completely renovated & restored (work finished in September 2017) to its former glory and it has wonderful character and original features.
Guests have access to the entire newly renovated property (renovations were completed in September 2017) however the swimming pool is only open during the warmer months of May through to September.
It is is situated in a rural area bordering directly onto farmland and faces directly west with amazing sunsets over the open fields behind. It is such a peaceful location and well suited for rest & relaxation.
The property is our fully equipped holiday home and we offer it to guests in the exact same fully equipped manner as when we visit - simply because we would like our guests to experience the same joy of holidaying/staying here as we do!
Due to its rural setting you are literally able to walk directly out onto open farmland where you can pick your own blackberries during season from the numerous blackberry bushes which seem to be around every field! The surrounding area is great for cycling (all fairly flat), peaceful walks & jogging and yet it is also centrally located for most of this area's desirable places to visit including La Rochelle, Île de Ré, Coulon, Marais Poitevin National Park, Niort, etc.
The property is also very conveniently located a few miles from the small market town of Mauze Sur Le Mignon which offers two supermarkets (Intermarche and Lidl) along with a pharmacy, 24/7 petrol station, Doctors, bars, restaurants, weekly markets, boutique stores, hairdressers, Church, sports centre with indoor pool .....all you could possibly need during your stay.
Shopping:
For those that like to shop there are the large/mega shopping parks such a Centre Commercial Beaulieu (near La Rochelle - 30minutes by car) and Espace Mendes (near Niort - 20minutes by car).
Beautiful location near to major tourist destinations:
Le Logis de La Touche is a Grande Maison which is situated on the southern edge of the Marais Poitevin regional park also known as Green Venice/Venice Verte which is one of France's most beautiful national parks set on 95,000 hectares spread over 3 departments – the Vendée, Deux-Sevres and Charente-Maritime. This area is listed as the second largest wetland in France, after the Camargue and there are plenty of places to hire a boat (self paddle and also paddled by a guide) as well as many wonderful local markets, shops, bicycle hire and restaurants.
The stunning coastal town of La Rochelle is a 30 minute car drive away heading west which leads to the magical Île de Ré. In the opposite direction is the picturesque town of Niort which is only a 20 minute car drive away heading east. Both towns offer shopping malls, fine dining, historical and interesting places to visit.
The pristine waterways of Coulon in the Marais Poitevin are only a 20 minute drive away in a northerly direction.
La Rochelle airport (with car hire) is the closest & most convenient airport (30 mins away) which is also where there is a TGV station. However Limoges and Poitiers are both within an hours drive away whilst Nantes and Bordeaux are 2 hours drive away.
Our holiday home is situated in a very peaceful hamlet and there are 5 other French neighbours who we take care to continue to be very considerate of.
This is our occasional and very much loved family holiday home and we employ a locally based trusted French & English couple (who are also our friends) as managers to take care of the property including cleaning, laundry & gardening.
We employ a locally based trusted French & English couple (who are also our friends) as managers to take care of the property including cleaning, laundry & gardening.
Our locally based property manager and ourselves are on hand by phone/messaging to answer all your queries in English or French.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Owners: Shaun And Michele
Please drop us an email to info@LeLogisDeLaTouche.com or message us via the property's Facebook page:
Words at War: Barriers Down / Camp Follower / The Guys on the Ground
Alfred Friendly (December 30, 1911 -- November 7, 1983) was an American journalist, editor and writer for the Washington Post. He began his career as a reporter with the Post in 1939 and became Managing Editor in 1955. In 1967 he covered the Mideast War for the Post in a series of articles for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1968. He is credited with bringing the Post from being a local paper to having a position of national prominence.
Friendly was born in Salt Lake City. After graduating in from Amherst College in 1933, he came to Washington, DC to look for work. A former professor who worked in the Commerce Department hired him, but his appointment to a high position at such a young age earned him criticism in the press and he resigned. For the next year he travelled the country in the middle of the Depression, eventually returning to become a reporter at the Washington Daily News, writing a column for government employees. Less than two years later he was hired to write the same kind of column for the Post, where he was soon assigned to cover war mobilization efforts and anti-war strikes.
When World War II broke out he entered the Army Air Force, rising to the rank of Major before leaving in 1945. While in the military he was involved in cryptography and intelligence operations, finally becoming the second in command at Bletchley Park, and the highest ranking American officer there. After the war he remained in Europe as press aide to W. Averell Harriman supervisor of the Marshall Plan.
A year later he returned to Washington and to the Post, where he became assistant managing editor in 1952 and managing editor in 1955. In 1966 he became an associate editor and a foreign correspondent based out of London. Hearing rumors of war in 1967 he headed to the Middle East where he was present throughout the 1967 War and wrote his series of award winning articles. He retired from the Post in 1971, though he continued writing occasional editorials and book reviews.
During his retirement he wrote several books, and after his death the Alfred Friendly Foundation was established. It administers the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships to bring foreign journalists to the United States for internships at prominent newspapers. The Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College holds a collection of his papers.
Our Miss Brooks: Connie's New Job Offer / Heat Wave / English Test / Weekend at Crystal Lake
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
Our Miss Brooks: Connie the Work Horse / Babysitting for Three / Model School Teacher
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
The Great Gildersleeve: Gildy's Radio Broadcast / Gildy's New Secretary / Anniversary Dinner
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.