We have a real treat for you today, it’s a new 35-minute documentary on the career of Society to Preserve and Encourage Radio Drama, Variety and Comedy (SPERDVAC) Honorary Member Beverly Washburn, produced by Las Vegas-based streaming documentary service “GoldenNetwork.TV.” It has an extended modern interview with Beverly as well as clips from many, many TV programs and movies she made including several with Jack Benny, Jack Webb, Lou Costello, Tony Dow and others well known to SPERDVAC members.
What’s extra cool is that the episode won two Telly Awards, for editing and general biography, selected from more than 13,000 global entries and among fellow winners such as PBS, NBC, Warner Brothers and Hearst Media. The Tellys are 47 years old, so it sounds like that counts.
You can watch the entire show here (and we note for Washburn completists that her horror classic “Spider Baby” also is streaming on the service).
Enjoy “America’s Sweetheart!” I’ve found it’s a little tricky to get the URL to default directly to the episode, but if you scroll down from the top of this page to “Modern Documentaries,” you’ll find it. It’s an episode of “We Were the Future."