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Let's Pretend, created and directed by Nila Mack, was a CBS radio series for children. Prior to being renamed Let's Pretend, the program had a variety of titles and formats. In its most famous form, Let's Pretend, the Peabody Award -winning series ran from 1934 to 1954.
Nov 23, 2008 · The Let's Pretend radio programs were also put onto LPs. As an American child living overseas in the late 60s/early 70s these records were a rare source of entertainment. My three siblings and I used to listen to them over and over.
Dec 7, 2020 · Let's Pretend was a happy and wholesome radio program for children. It evolved from a few different series, starting in the late 1920s, with various names and approaches through the early 1930s.
Originally known as Aunt Jymmie and Her Tots in Tottyville, Let’s Pretend was an award-winning children’s show created in October 1928 by CBS Director for Children’s Programs Nila Mack. Aired every saturday morning, the show featured various fairy tales, which were narrated by Aunt Jymmie to a group of young kids called “the tots.”
Nila Mack suffered a fatal heart attack at her Manhattan apartment on January 20, 1953. Let's Pretend garnered several awards over the years, including two Peabody's, a women's National Radio Committee Award, and five Radio Daily Awards. After Ms. Mack's passing, directorship went to Jean Hight.
Dec 21, 2023 · LET'S PRETEND.....Created and directed by Nila Mack (1891-1953), was a long run CBS radio series for children. It had several different early formats and tit...
From the 1930s to the mid-1950s, Let's Pretend was one of the most enduring and highly lauded radio programs for children ever broadcast. For over two decades of Saturday mornings (apart from a few years in a bi-weekly, early evening slot during the 1938-39 season), the show presented familiar fairy tales such as "Cinderella," "Rumplestiltskin ...
