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Arch Oboler - Biography - Moviefone Chicago-born Arch Oboler and the radio industry literally grew up together; Oboler sold his first radio scripts in the '20s, while he was still in high school. In 1939, CBS hired Oboler to oversee a wide-ranging radio anthology, Arch Oboler's Plays; this program was distinguished by its near-poetic prose, politically charged themes, and stream-of-consciousness narratives. Oboler's first film directing job (from his own script) was Strange Holiday (1942), a cautionary anti-Fascist piece originally intended to be shown only to employees of General Motors. movies.aol.com /celebrity/arch-oboler/104918/biography   (335 words)

THE ASTOUNDING B MONSTER | SCI FI Arch Oboler wrote and directed Bwana Devil, a 3-D safari saga that starred Robert Stack and Nigel Bruce. In a strange way, Arch Oboler's genius may have proved to be his artistic undoing as a filmmaker. Oboler, in his first filmland effort, was an odd choice to script this war-time domestic morale-booster. www.bmonster.com /scifi5.html   (787 words)

Arch Oboler's "Drop Dead! An Exercise In Horror"!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Arch Oboler, a genius anti-Hitler loud-mouth with intense horn-rims and personality, writes and produces his own plays in Arch Oboler’s Plays. At the height of WWII, Arch Obler wrote anti-Nazi plays that the stars were clamoring to be in. Arch was the host of the "Lights Out" radio Show during the years of 1936 - 1945. forbiddencrypts.250free.com /ArchObolerDropDead.html   (118 words)

Quiet Please Forum: Lights Out ... Winnipeg?!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Oboler was the author of the one act play "Rich Kid," in which Freddy Bartholomew made such a hit on the Vallee Hour some months ago. Oboler says this play "tells the life story of a rising young politician, as it is viewed through the disillusioned eyes of his mother, and shows the grave dangers of carrying to their logical conclusion the high pressure techniques for winning friends and influencing people." Before Oboler took to using a dictaphone, she acted as his stenographer, and Arch claims she is the fastest and best in the country. www.quietplease.org /forum/comments.php?id=205   (5575 words)

Product >> Daybeds >> Bonhams & Butterfields @ Architonic Arch Oboler was well-known for his radio program "Lights Out"; his popularity led to his becoming the first radio playwright to have his own series on network radio. Arch Oboler was an acquaintance of Frank Lloyd Wright, and subsequently commissioned Wright to design a complex consisting of a gatehouse, retreat and main residence on 105 acres of land located in the Malibu hills overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The gatehouse was constructed in 1940; the Retreat was built in 1941 with additions in 1944 and 1946. www.architonic.com /4104696   (163 words)

aob.html Arch Oboler, one of radio's early top scripters, has passed away at the age of 78. Oboler was also a novelist who produced several works in a science fiction and mystery vein. Arch Oboler was a man of stereo vision, a total genius in the mass media who achieved great heights and yet never abandoned that excitement he felt when he first looked through a stereoscope. home.earthlink.net /~r3dzone/aob.html   (1198 words)

Lights Out, Every Body Oboler: This is Arch Oboler bringing you another of our series of stories of the unusual. Arch Oboler's only non-horror/scifi job on radio was as one of the writers of First Nighter, a 1929-53 series that broadcast radio versions of popular Broadway plays. Oboler's only non-horror/scifi broadcasting job was as one of the writers of "First Nighter," a 1929-53 series that broadcast radio versions of popular Broadcast plays. www.angelfire.com /mn/nnn/LightsOut.html   (1311 words)

Arch Oboler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Night of the Auk (by Arch Oboler) took place on a rocket ship returning to the earth from man's first landing on the moon (time: "The day after some tomorrow"). The mood of the return voyage is far from jubilant, what with a loathed egomaniac in command, a succession of murders and suicides, the discovery that full-scale atomic war has broken out on earth, and the knowledge that the rocket ship itself is almost surely doomed. Playwright Oboler seems indeed to be prophesying that the atomic age may end up with man as extinct as the great auk. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arch_Oboler   (679 words)

Scifilm -- Musings, BEWITCHED (1945) Arch Oboler was the writer/producer/director of the radio show "Lights Out" before moving into a cinema. As a director, Arch Oboler knows a few cinematic tricks, and this movie has a few of them; unfortunately, they feel like tricks rather than part of the real action, and they stand out like sore thumbs. Oboler would go on to direct other genre efforts such as FIVE, THE TWONKY and THE BUBBLE. www.scifilm.org /musings3/musing1496.html   (181 words)

Gary Westfahl's Bio-Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Film: Arch Oboler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Here, their methodologies will work perfectly well, for Oboler was manifestly a man who was focused on the problems of postwar American society and determined to employ science fiction film as a medium to convey his strongly felt opinions on those subjects. Oboler's probing exegeses of modern civilization began with Bewitched, one of the many films (Spellbound, The Snake Pit, etc.) that reflect the postwar American discovery of mental illness. Perhaps Oboler finally decided to turn his back on his background in radio and make a motion picture in the truest sense of the world—a series of striking, three-dimensional visuals unaccompanied by verbal explanations—only to flounder artistically when he left himself without anything to say. www.sfsite.com /gary/obol01.htm   (622 words)

[[Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod]] ARCH OBOLER PLAYS was the series title for 3 separate series, a series of 53 shows in 1939 and 1940, a series of 26 shows in 1945 and a series of 13 in 1964. All shows were produced and directed by Arch Oboler. All the shows in this series were original radio plays written by Arch Oboler, except for the last two, which were adaptations done by him. boxcars711.libsyn.com /index.php?post_id=121735   (132 words)

One Plus One (1961)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Arch Oboler's One Plus One is an especially eccentric film in an already very odd oeuvre. Oboler was a pioneering radio dramatist who never made an artistically successful transition to any other medium. The `Baby' segment was one of Oboler's more popular radio sketches, it appeared on a variety of different radio programs; at least one of these live broadcasts starred Joan Crawford. www.imdb.com /title/tt0055255   (323 words)

Arch Oboler - Moviefone Chicago-born Arch Oboler and the radio industry literally grew up together; Oboler sold his first radio scripts in the '20s, while he was still in... This is Arch Oboler bringing you another of our series of stories of the unusual, and once again we caution you: These Lights Out stories are definitely not... Arch Oboler - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Arch Oboler Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone. movies.aol.com /celebrity/arch-oboler/104918/main   (143 words)

TIME.com: Nobler Oboler -- Feb. 9, 1942 -- Page 1 A shade chastened was Radio Writer Arch Oboler (TIME, March 17) after a week in which even Variety had taken a stick to him as Radio's Bad Boy. There had been a mix-up the week before when Greta Garbo, whom Oboler thought he had bagged for his March of Dimes program (TIME, Jan. 26), turned out to be uninformed of the fact, and failed to make her advertised radio debut. The fact remained that Oboler, who brought to radio drama the unabashed showmanship of a Zanuck, was doing his Plays for Americans free and on his own motion (seconded and guided by NBC). www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,777623,00.html   (543 words)

Blish Product: ARCH OBOLER'S PLAYS : HOLIDAY 194X Eerie, political and lyrical, Arch Oboler’s dramatic anthology of radio plays is regarded as “radio literature”. War, aggression and carelessness were frequently either the obvious topic of an Oboler play or the themes lurking beneath the surface of the story. Oboler’s compelling and poetic stories, if not his hands-on directing style, lured many major stars to his door, including Joan Crawford, James Cagney, Katherine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman. www.blish.com /Product/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=120531   (194 words)

Old Time Radio Fan :: Series :: Arch Oboler's Plays Arch Oboler (1909-1987) was a innovative writer, director, and producer, whose works always command attention. He was a relentless crusader against the rise of Hitler, and many Americans objected to his shows. But Arch Obloler was a true radio pioneer. www.otrfan.com /otr/series/archobolersplays.html   (114 words)

Radio history of Lights Out and host Arch Olber and Wyllis Cooper. Arch Oboler took over as writer/ director in 1936 amd evemtually hosted the show as well. Arch Oboler took over the show and Lights Out grew into a household name. Then Oboler brought it back in 1942 and became the host, using Bob LeMond as his announcer (Dunning, 400). members.aol.com /radiodrama/lightsout.html   (985 words)

Arch Oboler He attempts to fire until the last possible moment, then beats the wounded beast to death with the butt end. Oboler saw the resemblance of Malibu to the Serengeti (and Ireland or Switzerland or the Midi). His African compositions set off his coruscating script. cmulrooney.tripod.com /oboler.html   (784 words)

Internet Archive: Details: ARCH OBOLERS PLAYS : SERIES ONE ARCH OBOLERS PLAYS : SERIES ONE (April 1, 1939) This is the first of THREE series which began the career of Arch Oboler. As you know, Arch Oboler later went on to produce www.archive.org /details/ArchOboler01   (87 words)

The Arnelo Affair | MTV MOVIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) On the whole, the films of producer-writer-director Arch Oboler seldom came up to the lofty standards of his radio work, but each of his movie projects had a few meritorious moments. To Arnelo's way of thinking, if he can't have Ann, no one can-certainly not her scrupulously honest husband, who has gone on record insisting that he'd prosecute any criminal to the fullest extent of the law, even if that criminal was a friend or relative. Told in Arch Oboler's traditional stream-of-consciousness manner, the story comes to a violent but logical conclusion when Arnelo exhumes his own long-suppressed sense of decency. www.mtv.com /movies/movie/51576/moviemain.jhtml   (534 words)

Arch Oboler's Plays OTR MP3 List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Arch Oboler's Plays 400309 51 Johnny Got His Gun Arch Oboler's Plays 450426 03 The House I Live In Arch Oboler's Plays 450510 05 Holiday 194 X Arch Oboler's Plays 450517 06 Mr Ten Percent www.otrcat.com /archobolersplays.htm   (348 words)

Arch Oboler Collection OTR MP3 List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Sometimes described as a “genius,” sometimes described as a “showoff,” Arch Oboler is one of those that you either love or you hate. 1939 Time magazine mouthed that Oboler was a “30-year-old horn-rimmed half-pint scrivener.” An eccentric Hitler-hating truth-stretching flashy-writer, Oboler wrote and directed in “dirty dungarees, no socks, thong sandals, and a hat with a grease-stained band” (according to Ronald Colman’s daughter). Commissioning Frank Lloyd Wright to build his house, Obloer had a brook in his living room and a pet toad in his pocket that eventually died from eating too many worms. otrcat.com /archobolercollection.htm   (189 words)

Amazon.com: "Arch Oboler": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) See all pages with references to Arch Oboler. Cooper had created the immortal Lights Out in 1934, which went national in 1935 and was continued in 1936 by Arch Oboler. DOMO ARIGATO (1972) D/S/P: Arch Oboler Japan It seems impossible to see, but this G-rated boy- meets-girl movie was shot in 3-D Spacevision (like Oboler's The... www.amazon.com /phrase/Arch-Oboler   (536 words)

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES But Oboler's radio expertise made the most of it, and he filled the picture with stylistic flourishes that came from radio. Finally, Oboler gave Thaxter's evil personality its own voice, well supplied by an unbilled Audrey Totter, a film noir fixture (Lady in the Lake (1947), Tension, 1950) whose career began in radio in 1939. Oboler directed eight more pictures, specializing in gimmicky dramas including Bwana Devil (1952), the first feature-length 3D movie and the one which ushered in the 3D craze, and the post-nuclear holocaust melodrama, Five (1951), filmed in Oboler's own Frank Lloyd Wright-styled home. www.tcm.com /thismonth/article/?cid=97198   (556 words)

ARCH OBELER'S PLAYS EPISODE LIST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Arch Oboler's Plays 39-04-15 The Ways of Men_ Past, Present.mp3 Arch Oboler's Plays 40-02-24 The Women Stayed at Home(49).mp3 Arch Oboler's Plays 40-03-09 Johnny Got His Gun(51).mp3 www.otrtoday.com /lists/archoblerlist.htm   (89 words)

Arch Oboler's Plays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leading film actors were heard on this series, including Gloria Blondell, Eddie Cantor, James Cagney, Ronald Colman, Joan Crawford, Greer Garson, Edmund Gwenn, Van Heflin, Katharine Hepburn, Elsa Lanchester, Peter Lorre, Frank Lovejoy, Raymond Massey, Burgess Meredith, Paul Muni, Alla Nazimova, Edmond O'Brien, Geraldine Page, Gale Sondergaard, Franchot Tone and George Zucco. Arch Oboler's Plays radio archive (12 half-hour shows) Arch Oboler's Plays: "Miss American" with Katharine Hepburn (11/25/39) en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arch_Oboler's_Plays   (204 words)

PodcastDirectory | Episode: Arch Oboler Plays - 2 Episodes From 1939 - Boxcars711 OTR Day78 Podcast Episode: Arch Oboler Plays - 2 Episodes From 1939 - Boxcars711 OTR Day78 Podcast Arch Oboler Plays - 2 Episodes From 1939 - Boxcars711 OTR Day78 Episode Arch Oboler Plays - 2 Episodes From 1939 - Boxcars711 OTR Day78 www.podcastdirectory.com /podshows/626217   (155 words)

Bwana Devil | MTV MOVIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Historically important as one of the first 3-D feature film- the first was the 1922 film Power of Love- Bwana Devil is an otherwise amateurish film, redeemed somewhat by good performances and a reasonably interesting script (by director Arch Oboler). The thinnish story is built around some authentic African footage lensed by Oboler in 1948. Based on fact, the plot concerns two ferocious lions, whose man-eating propensities halted progress on the building of an East African railroad. www.mtv.com /movies/movie/53693/moviemain.jhtml   (342 words)

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