Army Private Skelton in 1944.

Red Skelton’s radio career started on Rudy Vallee’s Royal
Gelatin Hour before joining NBC’s 1939 variety series
Avalon Time.

Broadcast from Chicago, Avalon Time featured country
singer Red Foley and Red Skelton’s wife and gag writer,
Edna Stillwell.

Red Skelton was drafted into the Army in March 1944, but
returned to NBC in December of 1945, with the same
sponsor and timeslot.

Richard Bernard Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997)

   
   
Portraits of Clowns by Red Skelton.

The Life of Riley is a radio situation comedy series of the 1940s
that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, as well as two different television series, and a comic book.

The radio program initially aired on the Blue Network (later
known as ABC) from January 16, 1944, to July 8, 1945,
it then moved to NBC,where it was broadcast from
September 8, 1945, to June 29, 1951.  
 

                   
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Arch Oboler and Boris Karloff on Lights Out.

Lights Out is an old-time radio program devoted mostly to
horror and the supernatural.

Created by Wyllis Cooper and then eventually taken over by
Arch Oboler, versions of Lights Out aired on different networks,
at various times, from January 3, 1934 to the summer of 1947
and the series eventually made the transition to television.

Lights Out was one of the earliest radio horror programs,
predating Suspense and Inner Sanctum. 

Wyllis Oswald Cooper
(January 26, 1899 – June 22, 1955)

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960)

Clark Gable for CBS Radio program, Silver Theater, and
the performance of ‘For Richer, For Richer,’ December
1939. The sponsor was the International Silver Company.

Silver Theater  was a radio dramatic anthology series. Originating
in Hollywood, California, carried on CBS and on the Canadian 
Broadcasting Corporation.

First broadcast October 3, 1937, its last broadcast was August 17,
1947.

Rosalind Russell and James Stewart for their performance
on Sunday Afternoon Silver Theater.