![]() ![]() In blackface in Paramount's The Big Broadcast of 1936, otherwise Limitations of their creation, Correll and Gosden made one more film appearance Was one of the biggest grossing films of 1930. #Amos and andy movie#The movie was a dreadful slur on several levels, not the least of which The film had Correll and Gosden playing their characters in blackface. Same year, a book was published, All About Amos 'n' Andy and TheirĬreators Correll & Gosden, and a major motion picture was released ![]() Not much more than what would be considered boring daily conversations.įor instance, one episode opened with a three-minute, one-sided phoneĬall consisting of Andy talking a female into keeping a date with the ![]() To early episodes with a modern ear, it's hard to get through more thanįive minutes of Amos 'n' Andy because hardly anything ever happened Since that night in October after the stock market dive." Over, with Madam Queen's fifty dollars involved in the ruin, was the blackest The night that the Great Home Bank toppled Tottered on the brink of ruin and thousands of families all over America For a week, the Kingfish's Great Home Bank Their sketches, they hold the dramatic tension in a way to arouse theĪdmiration of Professor Baker. 'n' Andy, like Sidney Smith with his Andy Gump, have finally mastered Radio has never had a more amusing feature, nor one that has created so Sensible Amos as star of the show (Freeman Gosden gave voice to both characters By this time, the wily,Ĭoniving Kingfish was becoming a major personality, eventually supplanting That to the Super Bowl's 44.2 rating in 2004). Program of all in 1930, with a 54.4 rating and 30 million listeners (compare 'n' Andy, still written entirely by the two stars, was the top-rated Of telephones and motor cars, as if they were cave people. On two Negroes attempting to relate to life in the sophisticated world The radio program was successfulįrom the start, its popularity resting on the novelty of listening in Themes of radio's golden age, a lilting tune reminiscent of the (supposed)Īction moved along at a soap-opera-slow pace, but eventually the homeĪudience came to love these simple characters. Show's laconic theme, The Perfect Song, became one of the classic Year after its debut, Amos 'n' Andy had become a nationwide phenomenon.Īmos 'n' Andy was broadcast nationallyover the NBC radio network beginning in August of 1929, sponsored #Amos and andy series#Thirty-eight affiliates stretching from the East Coast to San Francisco.īy distributing the series in this method, they invented the syndication ![]() Owned the name Sam n' Henry) began in March, 1928 over WMAQ and Show moved to WMAQ, another Chicago station that believed in its potential. Reasoned Sam 'n Henry would go over just as big with a national With Chicago ratings through the roof, they Scripts and playing all the major roles), were making only $100 a weekįor the radio program itself. Successful their outside ventures, Correll and Gosden (writing all the Victor 78 RPM records by "Sam 'n' Henry" containing routines recorded In stage appearances as the duo in blackface for which they earned $2000Ī week, a staggering amount of cash in 1927. Program was so popular on WGN that Correll and Gosden performed regularly Law (they were arrested for gambling in an early episode). Prejudices of the era, often drunk and occasionally in trouble with the Sam and Henry were roughhewn caricatures, reflecting the prevailing racial In the process, created the basic model for every radio and television The first entertainers to master the intimacy that radio promised - and Their five day a week, fifteen-minute program, Gosden and Correll became In 1981, "We chose black characters because blackface comics could tell Negro dialect found in minstrel shows of the day. Identified the characters as black, it was certainly understood sinceĬorrell and Gosden voiced the characters with the kind of exaggerated Story of two simple-minded rural guys trying to make it in the big city January 12, 1926, Sam n' Henry became radio's first original serialĪnd the first broadcast to feature continuing characters and storylines. The show made it to air, the actors decided instead to create their ownĬharacters for a radio program with comic strip style continuity. Gosden and Charles Correll were slated to play The Gumps for a Listening to two white guys (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll) pretendingġ917, Sidney Smith created the popular newspaper comic strip The Gumps,ĭepicting lower middle class family life. Amos 'n'Īndy, brought over to television from radio, scored massive ratingsĪ significant period of time, life in America came to a virtual standstill CBS and NBC presented their 75th Anniversary specials recently there wasĪn historically important series that was ignored entirely. ![]()
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