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2. Amos 'n' Andy - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Charles Correll - Wikipedia

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   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).

4. Spencer Williams Jr. - Wikipedia

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   [25] [30] When Williams accepted the role of Andy, he returned to a familiar location; the CBS studios were built on the former site of the Christie Studios. [10] Until Amos 'n' Andy, Williams had never worked in television. [31] Amos 'n Andy was the first U.S. television program with an all-black cast, running for 78 episodes on CBS from 1951 ...

5. Alvin Childress - Wikipedia

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   When he learned about casting for the Amos 'n' Andy television series, Childress decided to audition for a role. [9] He was hired a year before the show went on the air. [10] In 1951, he was cast as the level-headed, hard-working and honest Amos Jones in the popular television series, The Amos 'n' Andy Show, which ran for two years on CBS.

6. Category:Amos 'n' Andy - Wikipedia

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7. Freeman Gosden - Wikipedia

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   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 [ 5 ] radio series of the 1930s, nationwide.

8. Ernestine Wade - Wikipedia

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   Ernestine began playing Sapphire Stevens in 1939, [7] [8] [9] but originally came to the Amos 'n' Andy radio show in the role of Valada Green, a lady who believed she had married Andy. [2] In her interview that is part of the documentary Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy, Wade related how she got the job with the radio show. Initially ...

9. Sitcoms in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll of Amos 'n' Andy in 1929. The sitcom format was born in January 1926 with the initial broadcast of Sam 'n' Henry on WGN radio in Chicago, Illinois. [2] The 15-minute daily program was revamped in 1928, moved to another station, renamed Amos 'n' Andy, and became one of the most successful sitcoms of the period ...