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- Category: Radio
- Unveiled: 21 Dec 1983
- Star rank: 2337
- Address:
1500 Vine St - Position: 3 tiles from the curb, facing north
- GPS location:
34.098424, -118.326519
Fibber McGee & Molly
Biography
Jim and Marian Jordan as caricatured by Sam Berman for 1947 NBC promotional book
Source: wikipedia
Fibber McGee and Molly was a popular radio show during the era of classic, old-time radio. It was one of the longest-running comedies in the history of classic radio in the United States. The series premiered on NBC in 1935 and remained popular until its demise in 1959, long after radio had ceased to be the dominant form of entertainment in American popular culture.
James “Jim” Jordan (16 November 1896–1 April 1988) and Marian Driscoll (15 April 1898–7 April 1961), were natives of Peoria, Illinois who met in church and married in 1918. The genesis of Fibber McGee and Molly occurred when the small-time husband-and-wife vaudevillians began their third year as Chicago-area radio performers. Two of the shows they did for station WENR beginning in 1927, both written by Harry Lawrence, bore traces of what was to come and rank as one of the earliest forms of situation comedy.
Fact file
Read more about Fibber McGee & Molly at Wikipedia
Vine St, east side, between Sunset and Selma
Nearby you will also find Smokey Robinson, Joan Caulfield, Mack Swain, Capt. Kangaroo Bob Keeshan, and many others.