Re: TV tie-in to musicals: It's a Bird...

robert armstrong wrote:
> Juanito escribe:
> 
> 
>>>Radio show had wanted to use two different actors 
>>>but Collyer showed that he could do both Supe 
>>>and Clark convincingly. 
>>
> 
>>Two actors would have been altogether wrong; 
>>unlike Bill Bixby/Lou Ferrigno playing essentially 
>>one character, given that the latter's differences 
>>were far more numerous than Kent/Supe's mere 
>>change of garb and removal of gl*****.
> 
> 
> In radio's defense, there was little precedent in those days to guide
> this particular series, and the whole Superman cult was not fully
> constructed (I mean, the first Superman character had been a "bad guy"
> only four years earlier). In retrospect we assume that people look
> directly at Clark and not notice that he's Steve Allen -- er, I mean
> Superman.
> 
> "More" than changing costume and taking off gl***** is a given, since
> neither could be done very efficiently on radio. 
> 
> Bob A
> 
> "Aside from that, Mrs. Kennedy, how did you enjoy the motorcade?"
> 


Funny how a little guy did the voice for a big guy.
Woody did something like this in "RADIO DAYS"


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