American Decades
Amos 'n' Andy Radio Episode 920
Radio script
By: Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden
Date: March 5, 1931
Source: Correll, Charles J., and Freeman F. Gosden. Amos 'n' Andy, episode 920, syndicated radio broadcast, March 5, 1931. Reprinted online in McLeod, Elizabeth. Amos 'n' Andy in Person. http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aa920.html/; website home page: http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aabp.html (accessed March 14, 2003).
About the Authors: Freeman Gosden (1899–1982) was born in Richmond, Virginia, at the turn of the century, the son of a Confederate army officer. He met Charles Correll (1890–1972) as a member of a traveling vaudeville group in North Carolina in the early 1920s. From these fairly inauspicious beginnings, the pair went on to write, direct, and star in perhaps...
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- Amos 'n' Andy Radio Episode 920
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- "An Emergency Is On!"
- Roosevelt and the Media
- Photography of the Great Depression
- The Lindbergh Case and the Media
- "Landon 1,293,669; Roosevelt, 972,897: Final Returns in the Digest's Poll of Ten Million Voters"
- The Rise of National Magazines
- "Are We Going Communist? A Debate"
- "How to Stay Out of War"
- "The Crash of the Hindenburg"
- Action Comics No. 1
- "Radio Listeners in Panic, Taking War Drama as Fact"
- "Television in the 1930s"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
