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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: November 8, 2014
Caption:
Radio and the Bowie Connection
Why a museum about radio in Bowie, Maryland? | Additional Description:
Mrs. William Woodward, wife of the last private owner of Belair Estate on which most of modern Bowie was built after 1957, had a brief career in radio broadcasting before her marriage in 1943.
Anne Eden began a radio career as a contestant in a daytime game show,
True or False. In 1941 she landed a daily role on a soap opera,
Joyce Jordan, Girl Intern, followed by a big break in
Lincoln Highway with Ethel Barrymore on NBC. Additional parts included
Bright Horizon on CBS, and
Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories, and
Portia Faces Life on NBC.
She was proclaimed "the most beautiful girl in radio" in 1941.
From a display in the Radio and Television MuseumSubmitted: November 9, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p291582
File Size: 2.383 Megabytes
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