Cary Grant Speaks To The Uplifters: Burns and Allen (November 13, 1947)

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“Cary Grant Speaks To The Uplifters” is an episode of Burns and Allen, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 13, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Gracie Allen tries to arrange for Cary Grant to address her Beverly Hills women's club, the Uplifters, but George Burns, alarmed by the club's influence, locks Gracie in a closet and calls in a psychiatrist. The meeting is set to go ahead while the men plot to disrupt it. Burns and Allen is the series, and this episode was broadcast on November 13, 1947, on CBS and NBC radio, starring Gracie Allen, George Burns, Bea Benaderet, Meredith Willson and Mel Blanc.

A home in Beverly Hills, with a nearby meeting of the Beverly Hills Uplift Society

Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Blanche Morten, Cary Grant, Dr. Miller, Harry, Meredith Willson

Listen for: Gracie's plan to bring Cary Grant to the Uplifters' meeting, and George locking her in the closet

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.