Brave Tomorrow
{{Short description|1943-1944 old-time radio soap opera}}
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| syndicates = NBC
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| writer = Ruth Adams Knight
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| first_aired = October 11, 1943
| last_aired = June 30, 1944
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Brave Tomorrow is an old-time radio soap opera in the United States. It was broadcast on NBC October 11, 1943 – June 30, 1944.{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=John |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow,+soap+opera%22&pg=PA111 |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=111 |edition=Revised |accessdate=2019-08-08}}
Format
Brave Tomorrow focused on Hal and Louise Lambert and the challenges that they faced while raising daughters Jean and Marty during World War II. A continuing facet of the drama was the older daughter's marriage to a military man who was in training to serve overseas.{{cite book|last1=Cox|first1=Jim|title=The A to Z of American Radio Soap Operas|date=2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810863491|pages=47–48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQiurxgEDkIC&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow+The+account%22&pg=PA47|accessdate=27 December 2016|language=en}}
Personnel
The characters on Brave Tomorrow and the actors who portrayed them are shown in the table below.
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| Character | Actor |
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| Hal Lambert | Raymond Edward Johnson Roger DeKoven |
| Louise Lambert | Jeanette Dowling |
| Jean Lambert | Nancy Douglass Flora Campbell |
| Marty Lambert | Jone Allison Andree Wallace |
| Brad Forbes | Frank Lovejoy |
| Whit Davis | House Jameson |
| Mr. Brink | Percy Hemus{{cite magazine|title=Five-Way Pickup|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAwEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow%22+radio&pg=PT10|accessdate=27 December 2016|magazine=Billboard|date=January 1, 1944|page=11}} G. Sayne Gordon |
| Mrs. Brink | Ethel Wilson |
| Phil Barnes | Carl Eastman{{cite book|last1=Buxton|first1=Frank|last2=Owen|first2=Bill|title=The Big Broadcast: 1920-1950|url=https://archive.org/details/bigbroadcast192100buxt|url-access=registration|date=1972|publisher=The Viking Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/bigbroadcast192100buxt/page/38 38]}} |
Source: Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows{{cite book |last1=Terrace |first1=Vincent |title=Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows |date=2 September 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0528-9 |page=50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EhOBCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow%22+NBC&pg=PA50 |access-date=October 23, 2022 |language=en}} except as noted.
Others heard regularly on the program were Ginger Jones, Myra McCormick, Margaret MacDonald and Paul Stewart. Ed Herlihy was the announcer. William Meader provided the music. The writer was Ruth Adams Knight.
See also
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References
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{{US radio soaps}}
Category:1943 radio programme debuts
Category:1944 radio programme endings
Category:American radio soap operas
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