Our miss brooks star our miss brooks star is a crossword puzzle clue that we have spotted 5 times. Radio mirror magazine nominated eve arden as the topranking comedienne two years in a row for her portrayal as miss brooks. The movie provides all the tv shows charm and laughter plus a dividend for fans. Audiences could and continue to relate to connie brooks as a clever, sarcastic, kindhearted teacher. Our miss brook exchanging christmas gifts 1950 by otr halloweenholidaze. The thirteen best our miss brooks episodes of seasons two and. It was a simple play to put on with a lot of good humor. Our miss brooks old time radio golden age of radio. With eve arden, gale gordon, jane morgan, robert rockwell. Boyton to the football game about 2 hours away, but conflict arises when she attempts to pick up her oft broken car from the shop the walters car breaks down while picking up harriet conklin. The our miss brooks connie brooks facebook fan page.
Eve arden brings the tv and radio character our miss brooks 1956 to the big screen as she pursues the professor she. Our miss brooks dvdr 1956 warner archive collection. A place to discuss and share photos and memories of our favorite fictional school teacher. The episodes are edited, but all 38 are now available and in. Our miss brooks by al lewis al lewis, eve arden, gale gordon. Review by drama director, franklin heights high school, columbus, ohio this is one of our most delightful productions. Her skill with the wicked oneliner and acid aside had begun to lead to typecasting so, to find a new image, arden signed on for the lead in. The most famous teacher ever on radio, connie brooks was a wonderful combination of sincere and smart, and eve arden played her perfectly. Jerry van dyke chose my mother the car over gilligans island and the andy griffith show try to answer this tv trivia all about money. Miss brooks teaches english at madison high, rents a room from mrs. Mash notes to harriet new girl in town dinner party english dept. Eve arden played a funloving but sometimes frazzled english teacher, connie brooks, a role for which she won an emmy. However, the story is a lot of fun and the actors are evidently enjoying. The coachs star athlete ted gives up the team to play the leading boys part.
Davis, gets rides to school with student walter, fights with principal conklin, and tries to snag shy biology teacher boynton. Eve arden played the funloving but sometimes frazzled english teacher at madison high school, our miss brooks. Regarding these 178 eps of old time radio sitcom, our miss brooks, with eve arden i do realize. This film version was made at the end of the series and is a nice keepsake for fans of the actors and the characters they portrayed. A few episodes have been featured on cheap public domain sets, but the series has never been given. Cookies websites use cookies that have been placed on this site by its operator.
Ctva comedy forum our miss brooks 195256 eve arden show 195758 mothers in law 196769 our miss brooks 195256 episode guide compiled by the classic tv archive contributions by. Please note the royalty rate listed is the minimum royalty rate per performance. Miss brooks has plenty of teacher troubles and her escape is in dreaming about her vacation. Stories depict her romantic misadventures as she struggles to impress philip boynton, the biologyinstructor.
Harry ackerman, at the time cbss west coast director. Well, the first season of our miss brooks has finally come out on dvd. If dvds had been invented earlier, say in the early 1960s, wed have had complete sets of our miss brooks, my little margie, i married joan, december bride, make room for daddy, the life of riley, love that bob, and others. It told the story of an english teacher connie brooks, which was portrayed by american actress eve arden. Our miss brooks tv series 19521952 the movie database. Featuring a witty professional woman as the central character of the old time radio show, our miss brooks was a groundbreaking concept. Unfollow our miss brooks dvd to stop getting updates on your ebay feed. Eve arden starred as connie brooks in the longrunning radio and tv series about a wisecracking high school english teacher.
Our miss brooks was a situation comedy show heard on radio and seen on television and films starring oscar winner eve arden. Today were continuing our threeweek series on the best episodes from the tv version of our miss brooks. With eve arden, gale gordon, don porter, robert rockwell. This is a real treat for us older folks who remember this show. Our miss brooks dvdr 1956 warner archive collection mod. Produced by larry berns and written and directed by al lewis, our miss brooks premiered on the network on july 19th, 1948. The thirteen best our miss brooks episodes of seasons two. Tom alger, tom dischley, rina fox, wayne miller, robert leszczak, james beer.
Our miss brooks is an american situation comedy starring eve arden as a sardonic high school english teacher. Sep 03, 20 miss brooks and companys audition for deacon jones hillbilly troupe coincides with a visit from a member of the board of education mr. Our audiences had a great time, and we received amazing feedback from school board members and the administration. Watch our miss brooks season 2, episode 18 brooks new car. Media in category our miss brooks the following 8 files are in this category, out of 8 total. Miss brooks suddenly sees that perhaps hes the man for her. Eve arden was wonderful and a young richard crenna too, and gale gordon round out the cast. She has travel folders on several caribbean cruises which she discusses with the athletic coach who owns his own little sailboat.
When the show was adapted to television, it became one of the mediums earliest hits. Even though were too young to have seen or heard our miss brooks during its broadcast era, we still find the humor and pacing of shows from the 1950s really charming. Enjoy for those not familiar with this show, it is a sitcom based on the. The orphan twins our miss brooks comedy old time radio. However, i have a dvdr set containing 126 of the episodes. Davis and rode to school each morning with one of her students. Eve arden was wonderful in just about everything she appeared in and the television series our miss brooks was a major highlight in her career and a pleasing situation comedy from 1952 through 1956. Directed by al lewis, who was the chief writer for the radio and tv editions, and written by both him and joseph quillan, the movie disregarded the past four years of television and started with a new storyline.
In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Download books offline, listen to several books continuously, choose stories for your kids, or try out a book that you didnt thought you would like to listen to. The film version of our miss brooks is likely to be best appreciated by those who have been exposed to the tv series or possibly the radio series from which it is drawn, although devotees may be thrown a bit by the movies rewriting history a little bit by having miss brooks a brand new teacher at good old madison high. Our miss brooks began as a radio series in 1948 and migrated to television in 1952 and soon became one of the first hits of the socalled golden age of television, and making famous eve arden 19081990 as comely, a wisecracking, but humane high school english teacher connie brooks. Our miss brooks who teaches english at madison high is keenly aware of the situation file. A goodlooking new football coach starts at madison high. Peanuts the great dane arguments, arguments keys to the school. This is one of the series silliest episodes, and its almost too broad for a typical our miss brooks episode. Emmy winner eve arden starred as connie brooks in the longrunning radio and tv series about a wisecracking high school english teacher. Our miss brooks star crossword clue answer crossword.
This app give you access to over 180 episodes from the our miss brooks radio show and as an added bonus over 320 episodes from the series, vic and sade. This film was produced towards the end of the tv shows run and features almost all of the regular characters and actors that blessed the screen at least until the illfated. Her skill with the wicked oneliner and acid aside had begun to lead to typecasting so, to find a new image, arden signed on for the lead in radios our miss brooks. When the show was adapted to television 195256, it became one of the mediums earliest hits. It was such a hit among many listeners that during its run, it received several awards including arden winning the radio mirror magazines poll for the best radio comedienne of the year for the. Old clothes for party lack of coal student government head of english dept. Its a practice that has not always paid off, as such video idols as jack webb and liberace will testify. Conklins car, pushing it down a hill and into a fruit stand. After weeks of highlighting the best episodes of i love lucy, the lucydesi comedy hour, and the honeymooners, today we begin our threeweek stint on the best episodes from the tv version of our miss brooks. Principal mcgees portrayer in grease player of principal mcgee in grease 1953 best actress emmy winner our miss brooks star of 1950s tv. Harry ackerman, at the time cbss west coast director of programming, wanted shirley booth. She eve arden teaches english, flusters the principal gale gordon and flirts with a colleague robert rockwell. The daughter of the school board president is determined to play opposite him but she reads her lines so poorly that miss brooks gives the role to an attractive nobody with real talent. Our miss brooks was first released on drummer dave baileys lp reaching out on the jazztime label jt 003, and features the first new york session of californiaborn tenor saxophonist frank haynes.
Oct 24, 20 this app give you access to over 180 episodes from the our miss brooks radio show and as an added bonus over 320 episodes from the series, vic and sade. It was such a hit among many listeners that during its run, it received several awards including arden winning the radio mirror magazines poll for the best radio comedienne of the year for the years 1948. The trials and tribulations of connie brooks, the wisecracking english teacher at madison high school. Our miss brooks by al lewis al lewis, eve arden, gale. The first cd release of that album was under the name of grant green as leader, on the black lion label. We have 3 answers for the clue our miss brooks star. Our miss brooks eve arden gale gordon robert rockwell 1956 she eve arden teaches english, flusters the principal gale gordon and flirts with a colleague robert rockwell. Our miss brooks is finally coming back to television. Our miss brooks premiered on cbs july 19, 1948 and soon became one of the networks most popular comedies, running for nine consecutive years. Our miss brooks, was a radio sitcom that first aired on cbs radio on july 19, 1948. Bringing television favorites into the movie theater has become an established practice of motion picture studios these days. The quality of life of riley is quite good, but you have to turn the sound right up for our miss brooks, resulting in an annoying hum in the background. On decades channel this weekend, sat from 1 pm et to mon at 7 am et. Germany iceland india italy mexico netherlands norway poland russia singapore.
Though a few episodes have been featured on cheap public domain sets, the series has never been given an official release. Watch our miss brooks season 3, episode 5 angelas wedding. Beginning of a dialog window, including tabbed navigation to register an account or sign in to an existing account. Haynes moved to nyc in 1960, but his career was cut short by cancer, at age 34. The thirteen best our miss brooks episodes of season one. It began as a radio show broadcast on cbs from 1948 to 1957. Teachers across the country related to miss brooks. The movie provides all the tv shows charm and laughter. Our miss brooks tv series 19521952 the movie database tmdb. Our miss brooks was a hit on radio from the outset. Rights and availability this title can be licensed and sold throughout canada, the united states. Our miss brooks is an american sitcom starring eve arden as a sardonic highschool english teacher.
Our miss brooks is a 1956 american comedy film based on the radio and tv sitcom hit on cbs of the same name. Stay in touch with our miss brooks next episode air date and your favorite tv shows. Overview of our miss brooks, 1956, directed by al lewis, with eve arden, gale gorden, don porter, at turner classic movies. Our miss brooks show featured a number of memorable and unique characters, whose trials and tribulations offered zany humor for old time millions of listeners.
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