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Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden), Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), and ...
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Tim Moore (December 9, 1887 – December 13, 1958) was an American vaudevillian and comic actor of the first half of the 20th century. He gained his greatest recognition in the starring role of George "Kingfish" Stevens in the CBS TV's The Amos 'n' Andy Show.
Spencer Williams (July 14, 1893 – December 13, 1969) was an American actor and filmmaker. He portrayed Andy on TV's The Amos 'n' Andy Show and directed films including the 1941 race film The Blood of Jesus.
The show originated on Chicago radio station WGN. From 1928 to 1960, Gosden and Correll, broadcast their program Amos 'n' Andy – again portraying Black characters – which quickly became one of the most famous and popular [3] radio series of the 1930s, nationwide. Correll voiced the character "Andy" (Andrew Hogg Brown).
Gosden and Correll made one more motion-picture appearance (as guest stars in The Big Broadcast of 1936), but there were no further attempts at live-action portrayals of Amos 'n' Andy until the Amos 'n' Andy television show (1951–1953), although the radio show continued to be a top-rated program throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
During this era, nearly all of radio's most popular programs were broadcast on one of three networks: NBC Red, NBC Blue, or CBS' Columbia network. The top-rated radio programs on American radio from each season: [40] [41] 1930–31, 1931–32: Amos 'n' Andy (Pepsodent, NBC-WJZ) 1932–33, 1933–34: The Chase and Sanborn Hour (Eddie Cantor, NBC ...
Gosden and Correll had a show similar to Amos 'n' Andy called Sam 'n' Henry at Chicago radio station WGN, but after a dispute in 1927, they took the program's concept and WGN announcer Bill Hay across town to WMAQ. [1] The Amos 'n' Andy team created the first syndicated radio show in history.