CATHY LEWIS COLLECTION

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Cathy Lewis (December 27, 1916, Spokane, Washington–November 20, 1968) was an American actress remembered best for numerous radio appearances but making a number of film and television appearances in the last decade of her life.

According to Ron Lackmann's The Encyclopedia of American Radio, Lewis moved from Spokane to Chicago and found work on The First Nighter Program. Other accounts say she first hoped to make it as a singer. Eventually, Lewis moved to Hollywood, and had leading roles with the Pasadena Playhouse in productions of Stage Door, To Quito and Back, and Winterset, appearing with Robert Preston, Victor Mature, Dana Andrews, and Victor Jory. Then came a year's tour with Alexander Woollcott's company in The Man Who Came to Dinner and with Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet.

She met and married radio actor/writer/director Elliott Lewis (they shared the common surname) in 1943. Both Lewises were staples of vintage American radio; radio historians Gerald Nachman and John Dunning have written of their numerous, genre-spanning works in comedy and drama (they were, for example, regulars among what was known as Hollywood's Radio Row group of performers, appearing often---together and separately---on such programs as The Whistler), especially their co-creation of the respected anthology series On Stage and their stewardship (with Elliott Lewis directing and both of the couple acting) of the venerable mystery series Suspense.

But while her husband would often be remembered most for his comic role in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show (as bumbling buddy Frankie Remley), she would be most identified as the sensibly droll Jane Stacy rooming with scatterbrained Irma Peterson (Marie Wilson) in the 1947–54 radio and television comedy My Friend Irma.
In 1940, she had her first screen credit in an episode of the Crime Does Not Pay film series. Most of her film work in the 1940s was in uncredited bit parts, although she was the female lead with Harry Langdon in Double Trouble (1941). She recreated her My Friend Irma role on television for the show's first season before the cameras. However, she did not appear in the two movies adaptations, My Friend Irma (best known for the film debuts of Martin and Lewis) and My Friend Irma Goes West.

She had a supporting role in The Party Crashers (1958), a film now noted as the final screen appearances of troubled legend Frances Farmer and former child star Bobby Driscoll. That same year, Cathy and Elliott Lewis divorced, putting an end to their image as "Mr. and Mrs. Radio." A year later, she starred as half the title of a short-lived bid to bring another radio legend, Fibber McGee and Molly, to television, with Bob Sweeney as Fibber to Lewis' Molly.

By 1961, Lewis played a supporting role in the Spencer Tracy movie The Devil at 4 O'Clock and began a recurring role as George Baxter's haughty sister Deirdre on the television hit Hazel, which starred another one-time radio presence, Shirley Booth (Miss Duffy in the comedy Duffy's Tavern). Her final screen appearance was on a 1965 episode of F-Troop. However, she did have one more memorable contribution to make: the voice of Jade, a female spy/adventurer who appeared in two episodes of the original Jonny Quest animated series.

Cathy Lewis died of cancer on November 20, 1968, the ninth anniversary of her father's death.

EPISODES LIST

DISC 1
Dennis Day  47-04-16 Dennis Goes to a Marriage Counselor
Great Gildersleeve 49-09-28 Gildys New Heartthrob - Nurse Milford
Great Gildersleeve 49-10-05 Double Date with Marjorie and Bronco
Great Gildersleeve 49-10-26 Gildys Rival, Dr Olson
Great Gildersleeve 49-11-02 Rivalry Continues at the Carnival
Great Gildersleeve 49-11-09 Birthday Tea Party for Marjorie
Great Gildersleeve 49-11-16 A Job for Bronco
Great Gildersleeve 49-12-21 Marjorie and Bronco Are Engaged
Great Gildersleeve 49-12-28 Hayride
Great Gildersleeve 50-01-11 Young French Diplomat  Comes to Summerfield
Great Gildersleeve 50-01-18 Dinner with Katheryn
Great Gildersleeve 50-02-01 Gildy Tries to Learn the Samba
Great Gildersleeve 50-02-08 Should Marjorie Work After Marriage
Great Gildersleeve 50-03-01 Marjories Shower
Great Gildersleeve 50-03-08 Gildys Blade
Great Gildersleeve 50-03-15 Gildy Considers Marriage
Great Gildersleeve 50-03-29 House Guest - Judge Hooker
Great Gildersleeve 50-04-12 Leroys Billy Goat
Great Gildersleeve 50-05-17 Fishing Trip to Grass Lake
Great Gildersleeve 50-05-31 Sadie Hawkins Day Dance
Great Gildersleeve 50-06-07 House Boat
Great Gildersleeve 50-09-27 Gildy Shares Leroys Piano Lessons
Great Gildersleeve 50-10-25 The Sons of Summerfield
Great Gildersleeve 50-11-22 Water Department Calendar
Great Gildersleeve 50-12-20 Christmas Show - A Present for Kathryn
Great Gildersleeve 50-12-27 Gildy-Bullard Double Date New Years Eve
Great Gildersleeve 51-01-10 Gildy Is Worn out from Late Dating
Great Gildersleeve 51-02-21 Marjories Babies Arrive
Great Gildersleeve 51-05-09 Marjorie and Broncos First Anniversary
Great Gildersleeve 51-05-16 Boating Date with Katharine
Great Gildersleeve 51-09-12 County Fair Comes to Summerfield
Great Gildersleeve 53-09-30 Flattery
Great Gildersleeve 53-10-14 Gildy Involved with Teacher and Principal
Great Gildersleeve 53-10-21 Fire Bells Are Ringing
Great Gildersleeve 53-10-28 Unwilling Witness
Great Gildersleeve 53-11-04 Impulsive Gildy Almost Gets Married
Great Gildersleeve 53-11-18 Gildy the Athlete vs Doc Olsen
Great Gildersleeve 53-11-25 Dinner Mixup with Peavey and Girls
Great Gildersleeve 53-12-02 Gildy Earns Christmas Money Selling Insurance
Great Gildersleeve 53-12-09 Taking Bessie to the Dance
Great Gildersleeve 53-12-23 Selling Trees for Needy Childrens Party
Great Gildersleeve 53-12-30 New Years Eve at Home with Leroy
Great Gildersleeve 54-01-06 Irenes Father Pushes for a Wedding
Great Gildersleeve 54-02-03 Evening Conference with Leroys Teacher
Great Gildersleeve 54-02-17 Gildy the Budding Politician
Great Gildersleeve 54-03-03 Paula Winthrop Back in Town
Great Gildersleeve 54-05-19 Gildy Runs for Sheriff
Great Gildersleeve 54-05-26Visit by Aunt Hattie
Hollywood Star Time 46-05-19 The Lodger
My Friend Irma - Al Is Selling Youth Restorer
My Friend Irma - Birthday Date With An Older Man
My Friend Irma - Irma And Astrology
My Friend Irma - Irma Decides Al Needs A Psychiatrist
My Friend Irma - Irma Improves Her Mind for Al
My Friend Irma - Irma Takes A Cooking Course
My Friend Irma - Irma Wins A $2000 Trip To England
My Friend Irma - Irmas Boss Buys a Race Horse
My Friend Irma - Irma's Brother Visits
My Friend Irma - Mr Martin Is Beating His Wife Again
My Friend Irma - Night School Homework
My Friend Irma - The Martin's Dog And A New Society
My Friend Irma - Trip To Washington DC
My Friend Irma 47-04-11 Irma Meets Jane
My Friend Irma 47-04-18 Rent Money
My Friend Irma 47-05-16 Jane and Irma Lose Their Jobs
My Friend Irma 47-06-13 The Fur Coat
My Friend Irma 47-07-21 Piano Lessons for Junior
My Friend Irma 47-12-01 The Reward
My Friend Irma 47-12-08 The Eyes Have It
My Friend Irma 47-12-15 Dancing Fools
My Friend Irma 47-12-22 Double Surprise
My Friend Irma 47-12-29 Gentlemen Prefer
My Friend Irma 48-01-05 The Great Irma
My Friend Irma 48-01-12 Lucky Couple Contest
My Friend Irma 48-01-19 The Book Crook
My Friend Irma 48-01-26 The Lonely Hearts Club
My Friend Irma 48-02-02 The Redhead
My Friend Irma 48-02-09 Billy Boy, the Boxer
My Friend Irma 48-02-16 The Professor's Concerto
My Friend Irma 48-02-23 It's All Relative
My Friend Irma 48-03-01 Fortune Raised
My Friend Irma 48-03-08 Double Troubles
My Friend Irma 48-03-15 Buy or Sell
My Friend Irma 48-03-22 Election Connection
My Friend Irma 48-03-29 The Big Secret
My Friend Irma 48-04-05 Irma's Inheritance
My Friend Irma 48-04-19 Dinner Date
My Friend Irma 48-04-26 Manhattan Magazine
My Friend Irma 48-05-03 Acute Love Sickness
My Friend Irma 48-05-10 Bon Voyage
My Friend Irma 49-04-11 Piano Lessons For Irma
My Friend Irma 52-01-13 Cub Scout Speech
My Friend Irma 52-01-20 The Burglar
My Friend Irma 52-01-27 Psychological Tests
My Friend Irma 52-02-03 Newspaper Column
My Friend Irma 52-02-17 Cathy Decides to Quit Her Job
My Friend Irma 53-06-30 Irma Buys An Air Conditioner
My Friend Irma 54-06-29 Irma and Jane See a Ghost
Songs By Sinatra 461009 First Song  Give Me Five Minutes More

DISC 2
Escape 480107 The Second Class Passenger national broadcast
Escape 480110 The Second Class Passenger national broadcast different production
Michael Shayne 461105 Return To Huxley
On Stage 53-01-01 (01) The String Bow Tie
On Stage 53-01-08 (02) Beirut by Sunrise
On Stage 53-01-15 (03) A Poetic Tragedy - Rehearsal
On Stage 53-01-15 (03) A Poetic Tragedy
On Stage 53-01-22 (04) Cargo
On Stage 53-01-29 (05) Public Furlough
On Stage 53-02-05 (06) A Corner of Autumn
On Stage 53-02-12 (07) The Party
On Stage 53-02-19 (08) Four Meetings
On Stage 53-02-26 (09) A Fifth of Tears
On Stage 53-03-12 (10) Call Me a Cab
On Stage 53-03-19 (11) Eddie
On Stage 53-03-26 (12) Dig, the Thief
On Stage 53-04-02 (13) The Lady or the Tiger
On Stage 53-04-09 (14) The Bunch of Violets
On Stage 53-04-16 (15) Casey at the Bat
On Stage 53-04-23 (16) Skin Deep
On Stage 53-04-30 (17) Happy Anniversary Album
On Stage 53-05-07 (18) The Bear
On Stage 53-05-14 (19) Statement of Fact
On Stage 53-05-28 (21) The Hanging at Four Oaks
On Stage 53-06-04 (22) And a Fond Farewell
On Stage 53-06-18 (24) An Ideal Couple
On Stage 53-07-02 (26) The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
On Stage 53-07-09 (27) Man of Independent Mind
On Stage 53-07-23 (29) The Fling
On Stage 53-08-20 (32) Canary Yellow
On Stage 53-09-16 (35) The Crustacean
On Stage 53-09-23 (36) Penny Ante
On Stage 53-09-30 (37) Loving
On Stage 53-10-21 (40) Take My Hand, My Love
On Stage 53-11-18 (44) A Circle of Wheels
On Stage 53-12-16 (48) Candide
On Stage 53-12-30 (49) Happy Holidays
On Stage 54-02-17 (53) Heartbreak
On Stage 54-03-03 (54) The Dreamer
On Stage 54-03-10 (55) Crusade of Stanley Finston
On Stage 54-04-28 (62) Giant's Fireplace
On Stage 54-07-29 (69) The Telegram
On Stage 54-09-09 (75) Saralee, You Are Lovely as the Summer Night
On Stage 54-09-23 (77) Fascination
On Stage 54-09-30 (78) Circle of Wheels
Theater of Romance 450918 One Life To Lose
Theater of Romance 451023 Forty Second Street
Theater of Romance 451030 Dust Be My Destiny
Theater of Romance 451113 Casanova Brown
Theater of Romance 451127 Penny Serenade
Theater of Romance 451204 Magnificent Obsession
Theater of Romance 451225 The Messiah
Theater of Romance 460115 The Ghost Goes West
Theater of Romance 460212 Death Takes a Holiday
Theater of Romance 460326 Woman In the Window

DISC 3
Arch Obolers Plays 45-07-26 My Chicago
Arch Obolers Plays 45-09-13 A Gallery of Big Shots - Masculine
Broadway Is My Beat 50-04-21 The Elaine Hill Murder Case
Broadway Is My Beat 50-05-05 The Thelma Harper Murder Case
Broadway Is My Beat 50-06-02 The Mario La Vecchia Murder Case
Broadway Is My Beat 50-10-27 The Harold Clark Murder Case
Broadway Is My Beat 51-11-03 The Joe Blair Murder Case
Broadway Is My Beat 53-11-27 The Janice Bennett Murder Case
Broadway Is My Beat 54-07-25 The Katy Lane Murder Case
Broadway Is My Beat 54-08-01 The Floyd Decker Murder Case
Encore Theater 460716 Now Voyager
Lights Out 42-10-27 Mungahra (The House Is Haunted)
Lights Out 43-05-25 Little Old Lady (Mrs Kingsley's Report)
Lights Out 43-06-22 Nature Study
Lux Radio Theater 44-02-21 Wake Up and Live
Lux Radio Theater 44-06-19 Lost Angel
Lux Radio Theater 44-07-03 It Happened Tomorrow
Lux Radio Theater 44-11-06 The Pied Piper (repeat)
Nero Wolfe 501103 Dear Dead Lady
Sam Spade 48-06-20 The Death Bed Caper
Sam Spade 50-05-18 The Red Amapola Caper (rehearsal)
Sam Spade 50-11-17 The Caper Over My Dead Body
Sam Spade 51-04-06 The Denny Shane Caper
Sam Spade 51-04-27 The Hail & Farewell Caper
Suspense 430504 Death Flies Blind
Suspense 430511 Mr Markham, Antique Dealer
Suspense 430821 Sorry, Wrong Number
Suspense 440106 One-Way Ride to Nowhere
Suspense 440323 Sneak Preview
Suspense 441005 Dateline - Lisbon
Suspense 450510 Reprieve
Suspense 450517 Two Birds with One Stone
Suspense 450524 My Own Murderer
Suspense 450607 Two Sharp Knives
Suspense 450809 Murder for Myra
Suspense 450920 Library Book
Suspense 450927 The Earth Is Made of Glass
Suspense 451004 Death on Highway 99
Suspense 451011 Beyond Good and Evil
Suspense 451108 The Bet
Suspense 451115 Murder off Key
Suspense 451122 Nineteen Deacon Street
Suspense 451206 I Won't Take a Minute
Suspense 451213 The Argyle Album
Suspense 460214 The Lucky Lady
Suspense 460307 The Black Path of Fear
The Eddie Bracken Show 45-01-28 Eddie Inherits a Baby
The Eddie Bracken Show 45-03-11 Connie's Shorty Costume
The Man Called X 480125 Carbon Fourteen
The Man Called X 480215 Guns on the Niger
The Man Called X 480229 Storm over the Alps
The Philip Morris Playhouse 49-02-25 Leona's Room
The Whistler 45-01-22 Seascape
The Whistler 47-12-24 Decision
The Whistler 49-05-22 Fatal Fraud
Voyage Of A Scarlet Queen 470202 The Death Of David Malone Pilot Episode
Voyage Of A Scarlet Queen 470828 The Barefoot Nymph and the Mother Hubbard Jacket
Voyage Of A Scarlet Queen 470911 Jewel Thieves and the Straw Filled Dummy
Voyage Of A Scarlet Queen 471120 Huntsman's Quarry and the Dead Chinese
Voyage Of A Scarlet Queen 471210 The Wandering Master and the Warlord at Rest

DISC 4
Suspense 460314 No More Alice
Suspense 460321 The Lonely Road
Suspense 460328 Out of Control
Suspense 460411 The Name of the Beast
Suspense 460418 The Night Reveals
Suspense 460425 Dark Journey
Suspense 460509 The Clock and the Rope
Suspense 460606 The High Wall
Suspense 460613 Too Many Smiths
Suspense 460627 Return Trip
Suspense 460704 An Evening's Diversion
Suspense 460711 Feast of the Furies
Suspense 460718 Photo Finish
Suspense 460808 Dead Ernest
Suspense 460815 The Last Letter of Dr Bronson
Suspense 460829 Blue Eyes
Suspense 460905 You'll Never See Me Again
Suspense 460919 Till the Day I Die
Suspense 460926 Statement of Employee Henry Wilson
Suspense 461010 A Plane Case of Murder
Suspense 461031 Lazarus Walks
Suspense 461107 Easy Money
Suspense 461114 The One Who Got Away
Suspense 461121 Drive-In
Suspense 461128 The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy
Suspense 461205 The House in Cypress Canyon
Suspense 461219 The Thing in the Window
Suspense 470102 Tree of Life
Suspense 470109 The Will to Power
Suspense 470130 Three Blind Mice
Suspense 470206 End of the Road
Suspense 470213 The Thirteenth Sound
Suspense 470220 Always Room at the Top
Suspense 470306 Elwood
Suspense 470403 The Swift Rise of Eddie Albright
Suspense 470410 Community Property
Suspense 470417 Green-Eyed Monster
Suspense 470424 Win, Place and Murder
Suspense 470508 Dead Ernest
Suspense 470529 A Thing of Beauty
Suspense 470612 Stand-In
Suspense 470619 Dead of Night
Suspense 470703 Money Talks
Suspense 470710 Murder by the Book
Suspense 470731 Mortmain
Suspense 470807 Quiet Desperation
Suspense 470911 The Twist
Suspense 471002 The Story of Markham's Death
Suspense 471023 The X-Ray Camera
Suspense 471205 The Clock and the Rope

DISC 5
Suspense 471212The Man Who Couldn't Lose
Suspense 480103 The Black Curtain
Suspense 480110 The Kandy Tooth
Suspense 480117 Love's Lovely Counterfeit
Suspense 480805 An Honest Man
Suspense 480909 The Big Shot
Suspense 490616 The Trap
Suspense 490630 The Day I Died
Suspense 490915 Last Confession
Suspense 491201 Mission Completed
Suspense 491215 The Flame Blue Glove
Suspense 500112 Four Hours to Kill
Suspense 500119 The Escape of Lacey Abbott
Suspense 500202 Consideration
Suspense 500323 One and One's a Lonesome
Suspense 500406 Salvage
Suspense 500629 Love, Honor, or Murder
Suspense 500928 Fly by Night
Suspense 501109 Blood on the Trumpet
Suspense 501116 On a Country Road
Suspense 501207 After the Movies
Suspense 510118 The Well-Dressed Corpse
Suspense 510125 Aria from Murder
Suspense 510308 A Vision of Death
Suspense 510315 Strange for a Killer
Suspense 510426 The Thirteenth Sound
Suspense 510607 Tell You Why I Shouldn't Die
Suspense 510827 Report on the Jolly Death Riders
Suspense 511015 The Flame
Suspense 511029 The Hunting of Bob Lee
Suspense 511203 A Murderous Revision
Suspense 540208 Death at Skirkerud Pond
Suspense 540315 The Girl in Car
Suspense 540322 The Guilty Always Run
Suspense 540329 Somebody Help Me
Suspense 540419 The Card Game
Suspense 540510 The Last Days of John Dillinger
Suspense 540713 Run Sheep Run
Suspense 560327 The Murderess
Suspense 571229 Never Steal a Butcher's Wife
Suspense 580223 Five Buck Tip
Suspense 580330 The Sisters
Suspense 580420 Alibi Me
Suspense 580817 The Bridge
Suspense 581116 My Dear Niece
Suspense 590104 Don't Call Me Mother
Suspense 590517 Friend of Daddy's
Suspense 590705 Blood Is Thicker
Suspense 590719 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Suspense 590809 Everything Will Be Different

 

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