The Charlotte Greenwood Show

The program began as a summer replacement for The Bob Hope Show.[2] Newspaper columnist Hedda Hopper reported, "The interesting thing is that she (Charlotte Greenwood) got the job on a couple of scripts written by her husband, Martin Broones, who's never before written for radio."[3][4]

The 1944 version of the show had Greenwood, playing herself, working as a cub reporter in a small newspaper as research in preparation for a future film role. When the program resurfaced in 1945, Greenwood's character had the responsibility of raising three children, teenagers Jack and Barbara and little Robert[1] after her good friend died, making her executor of the estate. The setting was the fictional town of "Lakeview".[5]

An old time radio reference commented that Greenwood's character "managed to be single, moral, and peppy."[6]

The main characters of the latter program and the actors portraying them are shown in the table below.[1][5]

Others in the cast were Shirley Mitchell, Arthur Q. Bryan, Harry Bartell and Will Wright.[1] Wendell Niles was the announcer.[7] The writers included Jack Hasty, Don Johnson,[5] Ray Singer, and Phil Leslie.[1] The producers included Arnold McGuire.[8]