This series aired on NBC from 10/24/54 to 10/20/64. The program spolighted many famous people.
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Biography in Sound Vol. 1
Biography in Sound Vol. 1
10/24/54 # 1 Sigmund Romburg Tribute
11/28/54 # 2 His Finest Hour: Winston Churchill
12/19/54 # 3 Meet Ernest Hemingway w/Herbert Marshall, Laurence
Olivier
01/16/55 # 4 Show Biz w/George Jessel
01/23/55 # 5 Meet Gertrude Lawrence w/Helen Hayes, Cedric Hardwicke
02/20/55 # 6 Meet Carl Sandburg w/William Saroyan, R.E. Sherwood
03/06/55 # 8 The Actor w/Laurence Olivier, Vivian Leigh, Talullah
Bankhead
03/13/55 # 9 The Kenton Era - Stan Kenton w/Frank Sinatra, Leith
Stevens
03/20/55 #10 Meet Ethel Barrymore w/Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontaine
03/27/55 #11 They Knew Bernard Shaw - George Bernard Shaw w/Lord
& Lady Astor
04/03/55 #12 Meet Ernest Hemingway w/Herbert Marshall, Laurence
Olivier (Re: of 12/19/54)
04/10/55 #13 They Knew President Franklin Roosevelt w/Eleanor
Roosevelt, Alf Landon, James Farley
04/17/55 #14 Leo The Lip - Leo Durocher w/Willie Mays, Dizzy Dean
05/01/55 #15 The Actor (Repeat of 03/06/55)
05/15/55 #17 They Knew Bernard Shaw - George Bernard Shaw (Repeat
of 03/27/55)
Biography in Sound Vol. 2
05/29/55 #19 Meet Carl Sandburg (Repeat of 02/20/55)
06/05/55 #20 The Kenton Era - Stan Kenton w/Frank Sinatra, Leith
Stevens (Re: of 03/13/55)
06/14/55 #21 Meet Gertrude Lawrence w/Helen Hayes, Cedric Hardwicke
(Re: of 01/23/55)
06/28/55 #22 That Was F. Scott Fitzgerald w/J. Held, Jr., Bennett
Cerf
07/05/55 #23 George Washington - The Man Nobody Knows
07/12/55 #24 Labor's John L. Lewis
07/26/55 #25 Biography In Rhythm
08/09/55 #26 The Atom Menace And Promise
08/16/55 #27 The Babe Ruth Story w/Mel Allen, James Farley
08/30/55 #28 The Serious Gershwin - George Gershwin w/Morton Gould
09/06/55 #29 Meet Ethel Barrymore w/Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontaine,
Talulah Bankhead (Repeat Of 03/20/55)
09/13/55 #30 Darrow - 100 Years Later w/Paul Muni, Nathan Leopold
09/20/55 #31 That Was F. Scott Fitzgerald (Repeat of 06/28/55)
09/27/55 #32 F.P.A. His Columns And His Friends - Franklin P. Adams
w/Ethel Barrymore, Harpo Marx
10/04/55 #33 Leo The Lip - Leo Durocher w/Lorraine Day, Larry McPhail,
Branch Rickey, Willie Mays, Dizzy Dean (Repeat of 04/17/55)
Biography in Sound Vol. 3
11/01/55 #34 They Knew Thomas Wolfe w/Charles Laughton, F. Wolfe
11/29/55 #35 Jerome Kern, The Man And His Music w/Edna Ferber, Oscar
Hammerstein
12/27/55 #36 Albert Schweitzer w/Doctors Emery Ross, Julius Bixler,
Karl Menninger
01/24/56 #38 Mr. John, The Golden Story w/Helen Hayes, Victor Borge,
Eleanor Roosevelt
02/14/56 #41 They Knew Grantland Rice w/John Kieran, Gene Tunny,
R. Smith
02/21/56 #42 George Washington - The Man Nobody Knows (Repeat of
07/05/55)
02/28/56 #43 Magnificent Rogue, The Adventures Of W.C. Fields Narrated
by Fred Allen w/Edgar Bergan, Errol Flynn, Ed Wynn, Max Sennett
03/20/56 #44 They Knew George M. Cohan w/J. Franklin, C. Washburn
03/27/56 #45 The Keeper Of The Time Capsule, Thornton Wilder w/Garson
Kann, Gene Tunney, J. Harris
04/10/56 #46 Mr. Baseball: The Story Of Connie Mack w/Jimmie
Foxx, M. Cochrane, Floyd Frick
04/24/56 #47 Sinclair Lewis w/Bennett Cerf, Harrison Smith, Harry
Maule
05/08/56 #48 The Wonderful World Of Robert Benchley w/Deems Taylor,
Irving Berlin, M. Connelly, Jimmy Durante
05/15/56 #49 Salute To Radio w/Fred Allen, H.V. Kaltenborn
05/29/56 #50 A Portrait Of Fred Allen w/Jack Haley, H. Wouk, S.
Weaver
06/12/56 #51 They Knew Thomas Wolfe (Repeat of 11/01/55)
Biography in Sound Vol. 4
06/26/56 #53 Fiorello LaGuardia - The Little Giant Of Gotham
07/03/56 #54 They Knew George M. Cohan (Repeat of 03/20/56)
07/10/56 #55 H.L. Mencken - The Bitter Byline
07/24/56 #56 They Knew Bernard Shaw - George Bernard Shaw
(Repeat of 03/27/55 & 05/15/55)
08/07/56 #57 Meet Frank Lloyd Wright
08/14/56 #58 Biography In Rhythm (A History Of Jazz) (Repeat of
07/26/55)
08/28/56 #59 F.P.A. His Columns And His Friends - Franklin P. Adams
(Repeat of 09/27/55)
09/04/56 #60 America's Grandma - Grandma Moses (On her 96th birthday)
09/11/56 #61 They Knew Rockne - Knute Rockne
09/18/56 #62 Darrow - 100 Years Later (Repeat of 09/13/55)
09/25/56 #63 Magnificent Rogue, The Adventures Of W.C. Fields (Repeat
02/28/56)
10/02/56 #64 Woodrow Wilson, Portrait Of A Peacemaker
10/16/56 #65 Meet Mary Martin
11/13/56 #66 Alexander Woolcott
11/20/56 #67 Albert Schweitzer
Biography in Sound Vol. 5
11/27/56 #68 Mr. John: The Golden Story (Repeat 01/24/56)
12/04/56 #69 Ticket To The Moon
12/11/56 #70 The Wonderful World Of Robert Benchley (Repeat of 05/08/56)
12/18/56 #71 A Portrait Of Fred Allen (Repeat 05/29/56)
12/25/56 #72 America's Grandma - Grandma Moses (Repeat of 09/04/56)
01/08/57 #73 Meet Frank Lloyd Wright (Repeat of 08/07/56)
01/15/57 #74 Fiorello LaGuardia - The Little Giant Of Gotham (Repeat
of 06/26/56)
01/22/57 #75 The Man Behind The Legend - Arturo Toscanini
01/29/57 #76 They Knew President Franklin Roosevelt - Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (Repeat of 04/10/55)
02/05/57 #77 The Keeper Of The Time Capsule, Thornton Wilder (Repeat
of 03/27/56)
02/19/57 #79 That Was F. Scott Fitzgerald (Repeat of 06/28/55)
03/05/57 #81 They Knew George M. Cohan (Repeat of 03/20/56)
03/12/57 #82 America's Grandma - Grandma Moses (Repeat of 09/04/56)
03/19/57 #83 Meet Ernest Hemingway (Repeat of 12/19/54)
03/26/57 #84 Meet Carl Sandburg (Repeat of 02/20/55)
Biography in Sound Vol. 6
04/02/57 #85 The Wonderful World Of Robert Benchley (Repeat of 05/08/56)
04/09/57 #86 They Knew Grantland Rice (Repeat of 02/14/56)
04/16/57 #87 Woodrow Wilson, Portrait Of A Peacemaker (Repeat of
10/02/56)
04/23/57 #88 Alexander Woolcott (Repeat of 11/13/56)
07/09/57 #89 The Aural Pucture Of Alben W. Barkley
09/10/57 #90 Danny Kaye, Prince Of Clowns
11/14/57 #91 Theodore Roosevelt
01/16/58 #92 Ernie Pyle, Typewriter In A Foxhole
04/10/58 #93 Captain Eddie, The Iron Eagle Eddie Rickenbacker
05/22/58 #94 Darrow - 100 Years Later Clarence Darrow (Revised version
of 09/13/55)
10/23/58 #96 Theodore Roosevelt
10/20/64 #97 Herbert Hoover (Special broadcast aired on the day
of his death)