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...

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Studio of Dancing was Doris Day. At age 13, she was a winner on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour and embarked upon a professional career. In 1939, she made her...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 Original Amateur Hour began on radio in 1934 as Major Bowes' Amateur Hour, and ran until the 1946 death of its creator, Major Bowes. Mack, a talent...

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...

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...

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...

The community was developed by Edward Bowes, who later gained fame as the host of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour radio talent show. The town attempted to...

Mickey's Amateurs pokes fun at "amateur hour" radio shows, popular entertainment in the 1930s and '40s. Perhaps the most famous example is the Major Bowes Amateur...

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...

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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...

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...

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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...

the Hoboken Four, Frank Sinatra sang this song in 1935 on the Major Bowes Amateur Hour. Albert Nicholas, clarinet, with The Big Chief Jazz Band recorded...

life remains obscure. She appeared on the popular radio series Major Bowes' Amateur Hour in 1937. After singing at a cocktail party in 1939, one of the...

2024. The school's auditorium is named after Edward Bowes, the host of the Major Bowes Amateur Hour. The theatre hosts programs including the Annual Alumni...

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...

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