Skip to content

Articles

Articles dealing with Red Skelton

Red Skelton with the cast of Avalon Time

Avalon Time – Red Skelton’s first radio show

People remember Red Skelton for his decades-long television series, as well as his long film career. But his rise to national prominence actually began on the radio. His first radio appearance was on Rudy Vallée’s The Fleischmann’s Yeast Hour in 1937. Red joked with fellow comic Joe Cook about their respective home towns. The two were invited back two weeks later, and Red appeared again in November.

Read More »Avalon Time – Red Skelton’s first radio show

FUNNY SCREEN TEST A SCREAM, MAY BE FEATURE

  • by

(Editor’s note: originally published in The Ogden Standard-Examiner, October 27, 1940)

Red Skelton’ Trial Film May Make Money for Hís Studio


By Paul Harrison
NEA Service Staff

HOLLYWOOD – the busiest strip of film in the whole film capital is a Metro screen test of Comedian Red Skelton.  It won him a job weeks ago and he has already finished his role as a fellow aviator with Bob Taylor in “Flight Command“.  But that initial test keeps reeling along.

Read More »FUNNY SCREEN TEST A SCREAM, MAY BE FEATURE