Major Bowes Amateur Hour information

The Major Bowes Amateur Hour was an American radio talent show broadcast in the 1930s and 1940s, created and hosted by Edward Bowes (1874–1946). Selected...

whose Major Bowes Amateur Hour was the best-known amateur talent show on radio during its 18-year run (1935–1952) on NBC Radio and CBS Radio. Bowes’ father...

The Original Amateur Hour is an American radio and television] program. The show was a continuation of Major Bowes Amateur Hour, which had been a radio...

poetry at an open mic night Major Bowes Amateur Hour, 1934–1952, a radio talent show in the US The Original Amateur Hour, 1948–1970, a television talent...

performed with them. Following their winning performance on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour on September 8, 1935, the newly-formed quartet embarked on a seven-month...

roles was in the 1935 short film Major Bowes' Amateur Theatre of the Air, a spin off from the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio show. He appeared in a full-length...

Delta. Around 1940, he and Edwards performed on the radio program Major Bowes Amateur Hour. Dallas settled in Brooklyn, New York, in 1943, where he worked...

White and his partner, Clarence Schelle, had appeared on The Major Bowes Amateur Hour. The "Two Zephyrs" made the circuits together for over four years...

then took to the Major Bowes Amateur Hour in 1938, winning first prize. A touring offer, playing various theaters with the Major Bowes Review, was part...

group around. Sinatra soon learned they were auditioning for the Major Bowes Amateur Hour show, and "begged" the group to let him in on the act. With Sinatra...

1921. On July 27, 1939, at the age of 16, Foxx performed on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio show as part of the Jump Swinging Six.[citation needed] In...

Wentworth). While wandering, he encounters a radio amateur contest (clearly a takeoff of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour), hosted by "Jack Bunny" (a pun on Jack Benny...

at New York Metropolitan Opera Major Edward Bowes (1874–1946), early radio star, he hosted Major Bowes' Amateur Hour Alice Brady (1892–1939), American...

High School, and where he graduated in 1937. In 1939, he won the Major Bowes Amateur Hour contest on radio where the prize included touring in vaudeville...

performed "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" on the radio program Major Bowes Amateur Hour. He lost first prize, but was invited to join a nationwide tour...

resort in the Catskills. Raymond traveled for the radio program Major Bowes Amateur Hour, seeking talented people across the United States. He also entertained...

the next two years. He then joined the touring company of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour. His career stalled in 1940, and Clements was reduced to panhandling...

audience and became the first black winner of an audition of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, and toured with the group under the name Rea Parada. Her experience...

Arthur Godfrey talent scout show and won. He was on the original Major Bowes Amateur Hour back in the 1940s. Ted Mack (radio-TV host) gave him a real start...

got her first break when she auditioned as a contestant on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour, radio's then best-known talent show, one of the most popular programs...

Arizona at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and performed on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour on radio. He moved to Los Angeles in the 1940s, and had a few uncredited...

to her nephew, Dennis Bartash, playing with her sisters on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio show in the 1930s was her big break. In 1938, Viola and Mildred...