The Campbell Playhouse

The Campbell Playhouse


At the end of the eighteenth show of THE MERCURY THEATER OF THE AIR, Orson Welles announced that the Campbell's Soup Company was to sponsor the series. After four more shows, the series moved from Sunday to Friday and changed its name to THE CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE. The first show of the new series aired December 9, 1938, at 8:00 PM. The new series retained the hallmarks of the old. Orson Welles was still active, the shows were still sixty minutes long. Although some stories were based on classic books, popular movies were also done. Thanks to Campbell's sponsorship, the listening audience was treated to 56 shows featuring the genius of Orson Welles.
38/12/09 1 Rebecca - (Orson Welles (host), Agnes Moorehead, Margaret Sullivan) 38/12/23 3 A Christmas Carol - ((Orson Welles (host), Alfred Shirley, Alice Frost, Joseph Cotten) 39/01/06 5 Counsellor at Law - (Orson Welles (host), Orson Welles, Gertrude Berg, Joseph Cotten) 39/01/13 6 Mutiny on the Bounty - (Orson Welles (host), Burgess Meredith, Carl Frank, Joseph Cotten) 39/01/27 8 I Lost My Girlish Laughter - (Orson Welles (host), Agnes Moorehesd, Joseph Cotton) 39/02/03 9 Arrowsmith - (Orson Welles (host), Everett Sloane, Frank Readick, Helen Hayes) 39/02/10 10 The Green Goddess - (Orson Welles (host), Alfred Shirley, Madeleine Carroll) 39/03/10 14 The Glass Key - (Orson Welles (host), Everett Sloane, Myron McCormick, Elspeth Eric) 39/03/17 15 Beau Geste - (Orson Welles (host), Laurence Olivier, Naomi Campbell, Noah Beery) 39/03/24 16 20th Century - (Orson Welles (host), Edgar Kent, Elissa Landi, Everett Sloane) 39/03/31 17 Show Boat - (Orson Welles (host), Helen Morgan, Margaret Sullivan, Everett Sloane) 39/04/14 19 The Patriot - (Orson Welles (host), Anna May Wong, Everett Sloane, Myron McCormick) 39/04/21 20 Private Lives - (Orson Welles (host), Gertrude Lawrence, Naomi Campbell) 39/05/05 22 Ordeal at Wickford Point - (Orson Welles (host), Author John P. Marquand) 39/05/12 23 Our Town - (Orson Welles (host), Agnes Moorehead, Effie Palmer, Everett Sloane) 39/05/19 24 Bad Man - (Orson Welles (host), Everett Sloane, Frank Readick, Ida Lupino) 39/05/26 25 American Cavalcade - (Orson Welles (host and writer and actor, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Agnes Moorehead), 39/06/02 26 Victoria Regina - (Orson Welles (host), Helen Hayes) 39/09/10 27 Peter Ibertson - (Orson Welles (host), Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris) 39/09/17 28 Ah, Wilderness - (Orson Welles (host), Agnes Moorehead, Arlene Francis, Joseph Cotten) 39/09/24 29 What Every Woman Knows - (Orson Welles (host), Agnes Moorehead, Alfred Shirley, Everett Sloane) 39/10/01 30 The Count of Monte Cristo - (Orson Welles (host), Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Frank Readick) 39/10/08 31 Algiers - (Orson Welles (host), Paulette Goddard) 39/10/15 32 Escape - (Orson Welles (host), Edgar Barrier, Everett Sloane, Harriet Kaye) 39/10/22 33 Liliam - (Orson Welles (host), Agnes Moorehead, Joan Tetzel, Joseph Cotten) 39/10/29 34 Magnificent Ambersons - (Orson Welles, (performer, producer, director, host), Walter Huston, Ray Collins) 39/11/05 35 Hurricane - (Orson Welles (host), Bea Benaderet, Everett Sloane, Mary Astor) 39/11/12 36 The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - (Orson Welles (host), Edna May Oliver, Ray Collins, Everett Sloane) 39/11/19 37 Garden of Allah - (Orson Welles (host), Madeleine Carroll, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris) 39/11/26 38 Dodsworth - (Orson Welles (host), Brenda Forbes, Denis Green, Edgar Barrier) 39/12/03 39 Lost Horizon - (Orson Welles (host and performer), Sigrid Gurie) 39/12/10 40 Vanessa - (Orson Welles (host), Alfred Shirley, John Hoysrot, Kingsley Colton) 39/12/17 41 There's Always a Woman - (Orson Welles (host), Everett Sloane, Frank Readick, Georgia Backus) 39/12/24 42 A Christmas Carol - (Orson Welles (host), Lionel Barrymore, Ray Collins, Everett Sloane) 40/01/07 44 Vanity Fair - (Orson Welles (host), Betty Garde, Edgar Kent) 40/01/14 45 Theadora Goes Wild - (Orson Welles (host), Clara Blandick, Loretta Young, Everett Sloane) 40/01/21 46 The Citadel - (Orson Welles (host), Edgar Barrier, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris, Geraldine Fitzgerald) 40/01/28 47 It Happened One Night - (Orson Welles (host), Everett Sloane, John Houseman, Miriam Hopkins) 40/02/04 48 Broom Stages - (Orson Welles (host), Helen Hayes, Orson Welles) 40/02/11 49 Mr Deeds Goes to Town - (Orson Welles (host), Agnes Moorehead, Jane Huston, Joseph Cotten) 40/02/18 50 Dinner at Eight - (Orson Welles (host), Benny Rubin, Charles Trowbridge, Clara Blandick) 40/02/25 51 Only Angels Have Wings - (Orson Welles (host), Edgar Barrier, Edmond MacDonald, Joan Blondell) 40/03/03 52 Rabble in Arms - (Orson Welles (host), Edgar Barrier, George Coulouris, Georgia Backus) 40/03/10 53 Craig's Wife - (Orson Welles (host), Ann Harding, Orson Welles, Janet Beecher) 40/03/17 54 Huckleberry Finn - (Orson Welles (host), Clarence Muse, Georgia Backus, Jackie Cooper) 40/03/24 55 June Moon - (Orson Welles (producer, director, host, performer), Jack Benny) 40/03/31 56 Jane Eyre - (Orson Welles (host), George Coulouris, Madeleine Carroll)