Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories
- Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories
"Aunt Jenny’s Real Life Stories" was a 15-minute radio soap opera which aired from January 18, 1937 to November 16, 1956 on CBS, sponsored by Spry shortening. The program was heard weekdays at 11:45am until 1946 when it moved to 12:15.
Aunt Jenny (Edith Spencer, Agnes Young) offered cooking tips and homespun philosophy from her home in Littleton where she lived on Indian Hill with her canary (Henry Boyd). Her full name was Jennifer F. Wheeler.
Aunt Jenny's recipes often included a mention of her sponsor, Spry shortening. Jimmy Dwan supplied the sound effects of rattling pots and pans. Every day, her friend Danny (announcer Dan Seymour) would drop by for a chat in her kitchen. Then Aunt Jenny would introduce and narrate one of her stories. These were five-chapter daytime dramas with different casts in stories which came to a conclusion on Fridays. One actor who began his radio career on this series was Richard Widmark.
Aunt Jenny was a widow, but in early episodes she was married to Calvin, who edited the "Littleton News".The show's theme was a strings interpretation of "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms", and the background music was supplied by organist Elsie Thompson. Various Aunt Jenny cookbooks were offered as Spry premiums.
For years, this series was satirized on a regular basis on various "Bob and Ray" shows with Bob Elliott as Danny and Ray Goulding as Aunt Penny; the alleged sponsor was Chicken Fat.
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