The Guiding Light is a television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness
Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, airing
from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio. It stands as
the third longest-running program in all of broadcast history.

On April 1, 2009, CBS canceled Guiding Light due to low ratings, ending its 72-
year run. The show taped the last scenes on August 11, 2009, and its final
episode was broadcast September 18, 2009.

Cast members from the early days of ‘The Guiding Light’ are from left:
Ellen Demming, Theo Goetz, and Charita Bauer.  

March 4, 1953

Jack Paar and Marilyn Monroe, of ”Love Nest”, take a Coke break

1951

  
   Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 – March 6, 1967) 

Eddy was a singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films
during the 1930s and 1940s, eight of them were with Jeanette
MacDonald. He also sang in opera, on the concert stage and
radio and television. For a time he was the highest paid singer
in the country, with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

New Moon, 1940, based on Sigmund Romberg‘s 1927 Broadway hit,
became one of Eddy’s most popular films.