Claudia - Single Episodes

About this film

CLAUDIA Claudia , which is perhaps better known as Claudia and David , was an old time radio show based on a series of short stories written by Rose Franken and William Brown Meloney, which appeared in Redbook magazine. The program was a soap opera centered on newlyweds David and Claudia Naughton. It followed the problems and the successes, big and small, of an average newly-married couple, including the need for thrift, having an overhanded mother-in-law, and all those charming little moments of life. The program began as a skit on The Kate Smith Hour in 1941, and was expanded into a full summer series a month later. In those original shows, Claudia was played by Patricia Ryan and David by Richard Kollmar. Franken and Meloney's stories were collected into books that were adapted into a pair of RKO films, Claudia in 1943 and Claudia and David in 1946. Both films starred Robert Young and Dorothy McGuire. The success of the films prompted Coca-Cola to sponsor a 15-minute syndicated weekday radio program in the 1947-1948 season, starring Kathryn Bard and Paul Crabtree. The Claudia and David stories also spawned two TV movies in the late fifties, as well as British and German televisio…

Directors & creators

Old Time Radio Researchers Group

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OTRR; Old Time Radio Researchers Group; OTR; Old Time Radio; OTRR Set; OTRR Single Episodes; Claudia; Claudia and David; Soap Opera; Patricia Ryan; Ryan; Patricia; Richard Kollmar; Dick Kollmar; Kollmar; Richard; Kollmar; Dick; Kathryn Bard; Bard; Kathryn; Paul Crabtree; Crabtree; Paul; 1940s; 1941; 1947; 1948; 1949; OTRR - 2013-01

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