Paul Raven

Kevin McCarthy His Right to Happiness role was Lee McDonald

So Rose returned to TGL and played out the Greenman story? The timeline of TGL and RTH is confusing at this time.

This was the early cast of RTH. Seems the Burke family were prominent and the Cunninghams were brought over from TGL as well as the Kranskys. Doris,Carolyn and Bill were there also to get that story off the ground. "Right to Happiness," the serial which stemmed from Irna Phillips' "Guiding Light," exercised its privilege to change networks and is now heard on CBS. The cast remains the same as follows: Mrs. Kransky- Mignon Schreiber. Rose Kransky -Ruth Bailey. Jacob Kransky- Seymour Young. Emily Burke -Bernardine Flynn. Tom Burke -Carl Kroenke. Donald Burke -Pat Murphy. Mildred Burke -Nancy Hurdle. Terry Burke -Carlton KaDell. Kathy Burke -Lucy Gilman. Dr. Ruthledge- Arthur Peterson. Helene Cunningham -Lesley Woods. Charles Cunningham -Bill Bouchey. Bill Walker -Reese Taylor. Doris Cameron -Constance Crowder. Caroline- Laurette Fillbrandt. Grace Mead -Jane Green.

BTW Drag Race Canada was pretty basic...

Right to Happiness summary 1941. The Kranskys had vanished by this point. ALMOST everybody wants happiness; almost nobody knows quite what happiness really is. And the struggle to achieve this elusive state of bliss often has the strange effect of creating a great deal ·of unhappiness. For instance, in Ima Phillips; serial show "Right to Happiness" (heard Monday through Friday over CBS) . Here the struggle results in a muddle of love triangles which. would confound the wisest adviser to the lovelorn. First, Bill Walker (Reese Taylor), an advertising executive, falls for widow Doris Cameron (Connie Crowder), a woman's magazine editor until he meets her daughter, Carolyn (Eloise Kummer), whom he marries while Doris is away on business. Carolyn is ignorant of her mother's love for Bill, later finds life with him-he is twenty years older than she-- quite incompatible. Her real heart interest is Bill's young business associate, Dwight Kramer (Frank Behrens) . She threatens divorce, but Bill refuses to leave her. Another triangle develops as Louise Sims (Sarajane Wells), comes to live with Doris, meets Lyle Anders (Karl Weber), a young writer, to whom she becomes engaged out of pity on learning that he has only six months to live. But his recovery places her on a .spot, for she really is in love with a young lawyer named Dick Gordon (Monty Mohn). A third trend is introduced when Fred Minturn (Art Kohl), who loves Doris, is spurned because she still carries the torch for Bill Walker. All of these men and women search for one possession- happiness .

David Gothard Tale of Today Otis Cliff Denise Alexander Perry Mason Joyce Jordan Kings Row Harry Bellaver Backstage Wife 1951 Central City Fred Olsen

Tony Randall Right to Happiness Sam Roberts

Ethel Wilson Front Page Farrell 1946 Effie Palmer My Son and I 1939 By Kathleen Norris 'Woman in Love' Mother Lawrence Just Plain Bill Mrs Eeps Mercer McCloud Valiant Lady Stewart Fairbanks 1952 Hugh Marlowe Our Gal Sunday Gavin Murray Elspeth Eric Mommie and the Men 1945 Betty Caine Madame Courageous Sarah Brayden Amanda of Honeymoon Hill Joyce Jordan

The original title for Barry Cameron was Soldier Who Came Home - very topical after the war but I guess they felt it was a llttle restricting and maybe the feedback was that daytime listeners didn't want to be reminded of the war- so the title changed to Barry Cameron after the lead character.

Jackie Grimes Billy and Betty Oliver 1939

The size and detail of those sets!

Ruth Yorke Your Family and Mine Valerie Treadway Willard Waterman Woman in White Dr Wilton Thunder Over Paradise Arthur Vinson Perry Mason Sgt Dorset Alan Hewitt Valiant Lady 1946 Gale Gordon Dr Christian Roy Davis village druggist

A list of the network sponsored soaps and headwriters on air as of Feb 1946. Interesting to see some names that continued to be associated with soaps into the TV years. A Womans Life - Kathleen Norris Aunt Jenny - various Bachelors Children - Bess Flynn Backstage Wife - Elizabeth Todd Big Sister - Julian Funt Barry Cameron - Peggy Blake Stella Dallas - Helen Walpole Front Page Farrell - various Guiding Light - Irna Phillips David Harum – Mary W Reeves Lorenzo Jones – Theodore and Mathilde Ferro Joyce Jordan - H Selinger Just Plain Bill – Evelyn Hart Life Can Be Beautiful – Don Becker Carl Bixby Light of the World - Adele Seymour Lora Lawton - Jean Carroll Perry Mason - Eric Gardner Ma Perkins – L Huntley N Johnson Masquerade - Irna Philips and A Glad My True Story - Margaret Sangster Our Gal Sunday - Jean Carroll Portia Faces Life - Mona Kent Real Stories from Real Life - various Right To Happiness - John Young Road of Life -Howard Teichman Romance of Helen Trent - Martha Alexander Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters - HL Algyer Rosemary - Elaine Carrington Tena and Tim - Peggy Beckmark Today's Children - Irna Phillips When a Girl Marries - Elaine Carrington Woman in White - H Futran Valiant Lady – a Richton L Stone Woman of America - Della Decker Young Widder Brown - Elizabeth Todd Young Dr Malone - David Driscoll Pepper Young's Family - Elaine Carrington

Nancy Douglass Dangerous Roads Nadja Butler Houseboat Hannah Barbara Hughey Bill Idelson Vic n Sade Rush Gook Effie Palmer Manhattan Mother Hannah Young Dr Malone Mrs Claflin Mitzi Gould Second Husband 1946 David Gothard Painted Dreams Bill Riley Party Line David Hunter Stepmother Alex Stevens Wheatena Playhouse 'Dark Victory' Valiant Lady 1946 Helen Choate My Son and I Lucy James Brenda Curtis Myra Beldon Second Husband By Kathleen Norris Her Honor Nancy James Carrie Dean Barry Cameron 1945

Betty Worth Just Plain Bill Betty Walters Road of Life Lucy Gilbert Alias Jimmy Valentine Rose Lane Heart of Julia Blake Young widow Ned Wever Central City Soldier Who Came Home (Barry Cameron) Guy Sorel Lora Lawton Adam Collingswood 1945 Katherine Raht Light of the world 1945 Front Page Farrell 1945 David Harum 1945 Agnes Moorehead By Kathleen Norris Hope Summers Masquerade 1945

Yes, I saw the infamous Donna posting and thought - here we go again! Glad you got rid of her. Thanks for the list.I'll see what I've got for those names in anticipation.

More on TGL from around that time with a couple of new characters and plots mentioned THE LIVES of half -a -dozen people color the pattern that is the Guiding Light, now in its fourth year as an NBC network serial. Dr. John Ruthledge, kindly minister of the mythical melting pot community of Five Points, is the central character actor, made his debut and his gentle, understanding influence, the various personalities and plots revolve. Dr. Ruthledge is portrayed by Arthur Peterson, who has filled the role since the show was first inaugurated. Peterson, a talented character actor, made his debut reciting "pieces" in Sunday school. Oddly enough, when he matriculated at the University of Minnesota, that school's vocational guidance department recommended that he study for the ministry. Although Peterson once served as junior superintendent of a Sunday School, the grease paint tradition is strong in his family - both grandparents on both sides, his parents, uncles, aunts and his wife were all connected with the theater. Some of them still are. So it was more than natural that Arthur follow their lead. Born in Mandan, North Dakota, Peterson was graduated from the University of Minnesota. He had the theater as his goal from kindergarten days onward, and, by the time he received his sheepskin, he already had 900 performances to his credit. He went directly into stock and repertory theaters and from there to Chicago and radio. Currently, in the serial, the plot most intimately touching Dr. Ruthledge's life is centered around his secretary-church organist, Laura, added to the parsonage after the marriage of Mary, the doctor s daughter. T h e discovery that Laura is a kleptomaniac has driven away Ellen, the housekeeper for many, many years. The Doctor's daughter is now the wife of Ned Holden, a young man reared in the parsonage. The marriage has been brought about recently, after many trials for the young people Once, just before their wedding, Ned discovered that his father was a thief and a blackmailer; that his mother, Fredericka Lang, had shot her husband rather than let him influence her son's life. The discovery drove Ned to repudiate Fredericka and flee to the West Coast, where he married Torchy Reynolds, young waterfront girl. They were eventually divorced, so that Ned and Mary could marry. Ned is now reconciled with his mother. Another thread in the story concerns the lives of the Kransky family. Rose, the daughter, once loved Charles Cunningham, wealthy publisher. She became the mother of his child and figured sensationally in a trial when Cunningham's wife divorced him, naming Rose as co- respondent. Now Charles wants to marry Rose but she is engaged to her present employer, Jack Felzer, prominent young attorney. Ellis Smith, an artist who calls himself "Mr. Nobody from Nowhere," is another important part of the story pattern. Ellis, blinded when he rescued Fredericka from a tenement fire, has recently regained his sight. Torchy, now a famous night club and radio singer, loves him; so does Iris Marsh, a young woman who has left her husband and little son to build up a new life of her own. Ellis isn't sure of his own heart and is currently planning to leave Five Points and start life over again. Although he has long been a verbal antagonist of Dr. Ruthledge, the artist has his own cynical way of spreading kindness through the little community. Mary Ruthledge Holden is played by Sarajane Wells; Ned Holden, by Ed Prentiss; Mrs. Kransky is Mignon Schreiber; Rose Kransky, Ruth Bailey; Jacob Kransky, Seymour Young; Torchy Reynolds, Gladys Heen; Fredericka Lang, Muriel Bremner; Irish Marsh, Betty Arnold; Ellis Smith, Phil Dakin; Charles Cunningham, Bill Bouchey; Jack Felzer, Paul Barnes; Laura Martin, Gail Renshaw: T h e serial written by Ima Phillips, "Radio's No. 1 Author, was inaugurated January 25, 1937. It is broadcast Mondays through Fridays at 9:45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CST over the NBC-Red network. The show is produced by Howard Keegan, for the agency, and announced by Fort Pearson.

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House Jameson By Kathleen Norris 'Mystery House' Dr Randall Howard Muriel Kirkland Central City Virginia Livingston John McGovern Amanda of Honeymoon Hill 1943 David Harum 1948 Just Plain Bill 1941 and 1948 Herb Nelson Woman in White Donald Grey

Hope Summers The Guiding Light Doris Thompson

Thanks for those. Finally, a radio role for Ruth Warrick. I keep reading that she was on radio but never any specifics.

Daytime Ratings reported Jan 1944 1. When A Girl Marries 9.0 2. Portia Faces Life 8.7 3. Backstage Wife 8.6 4. Right to Happiness 8.4 5. Big Sister 8.4 6. Young Widder Brown 8.2 7. Stella Dallas 8.0 8. Pepper Young's Family 7.9 9. Lorenzo Jones 7.6 10.Kate Smith Speaks 7.6

Macdonald Carey I Love Linda Dale Jason Blade Affairs of Anthony Andy Pickering Kay Campbell Just Plain Bill 1947 Lora Lawton 1948 Arthur Vinton Stories America Loves 'The Virginian' Trampas 1941 Humphrey Davis Portia Blake Mayor Bartlett Matt Crowley Life Can Be Beautiful Barry 1939 Ernest Graves Backstage Wife 1941

Irna wasn't afraid to head to court November 1940 Irna Phillips Loses Suit on Strip Show CHICAGO, Irna Phillips. writer of soap operas, lost her appeal of a Superior Court ruling In her suit against WGN. Inc.. and The Tribune over property rights in the strip show Painted Dreams. The Appellate Court upheld the decision of the lower tribunal that the show belonged to WGN. Miss Phillips claimed that she was the creator and Independent owner of the drama and owned It by copyright She had, however written the script in September. 1930 while employed by WGN, following a general outline supplied by the station. The court brought out that, after a sponsor was found, she Copyrighted the first 10 scripts without advisng her employer. Justice John N. O'Connor stated: -She did the work, was paid for It. and In such situation under the law the ownership In the result of what was done belongs to the defendants.

Lucy Gilman Right To Happiness Katherine Burke