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In 1907, a penniless farmer named Ruben Shipp discovered gold while plowing his field. FRONTLINE series home|wgbh|pbs, FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of wgbh educational foundation. So we learn to live with it. Thomas Lynch reads to camera his essay Tract (part II). As Bluff City Buick customers watched, Digger ODell (left) prepared to enter the worlds smallest apartment, where he planned to stay at least 57 days. Procter and Gamble's new Radiant Creme Shampoo in the handy tube! Thanks for any help. The idea for the radio program had originated as a sitcom for Groucho Marx called The Flotsam Family , but Groucho was Groucho and the sponsor couldn't accept him as a family man. The lead character was changed to Chester A. Riley, the title was changed to The Life of Riley and a show and star were born. But I find that if you just show up, if you just walk in the door, people think you're a hero. That they do it for themselves I think is very important. Jeff, who had just proposed to Babs himself, is devastated by her announcement, as is Peg, who knows that her daughter does not love Burt. Brown also played "Gillis" on the radio. His real name, it seems, was Herbert O'Dell Smith. I remember it hitting me there in the house: She actually died; we actually buried her today; she's actually not coming back here; she's actually gone. Made for Universal Pictures and directed by Brecher, who also wrote and produced the simple plot of The Life of Riley , revolves around Babs (Randall) learning that Riley is about to get laid off. And particularly when you see the transaction which involves this rather impressive life-or-death event with the rather mundane mercantility of it all. With your own mother and father and their funerals, what were the moments that had meaning for you? And I've seen it work, I've seen it work. Peg Riley: All this plotting and scheming you remind me of a girl I once knew. Irving Brecher's onscreen credit reads: "Written and directed by Irving Brecher." I think he was keenly aware of the fact that a good funeral is not about what we buy or what we spend; that a good funeral is very much about what we do when someone dies. And we laugh sometimes at all those good memories and all those silly things the person said and all those wise things that that person said and all their foibles. Dr. Beamish: Not now, I'm afraid. Question #48486. We're celebrating love, huh? If you don't pay attention Peg Riley: Well, I'm trying to tell ya, he just moons around the house! Well, both my parents were buried like Irish Catholics were buried, so there was this sort of tribal and religious language that had been developed over centuries for how we do this. Chester A. Riley: Besides that, he's nothing but a lazy loafer. According to the obituary, Digger was born in Georgia in 1915. So it's interesting times we live in that way. What can you tell me about this interesting fellow? None of us knew what reference was being made here.In grade five very few people here NL (Canada) were familiar with American radio.When the "Life Of Reilly" came to TV my appreciation of "Digger" was finally launched. I was watching [author and cultural commentator] Christopher Hitchens the other day. For many people I know, when families are cremated, they feel as if they've in some sense kind of disappeared. It's the people who, in many ways, try to put on the smiley face, that brittle grin you see so often that says, "We're going to be happy." Chester A. Riley: Christmas, nothing doing! When his efforts to impress his boss, Carl Stevenson, apparently fail, Riley becomes incensed and finally works up the courage to confront him. I planned the whole thing. It is really helpful on the day your mother dies or your father dies or, God help us, a child dies, to have a certain part of the wheel already invented. I said what about a kiss? Searching for Herbert ODell Smith took me nowhere, and youd be surprised how many people in America are named Digger ODell. Why, theres Edwin Digger Odell of Abilene, Texas; Allen Digger ODell of Malvern, Iowa; Charles Wayne Digger ODell of Lebanon, Tennessee; Loren Digger ODell of Brookfield, Missouri you get the picture. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: Why, I was just taking a stroll around the pond. Land of miracles, where dreams come true! 460 Tennessee Street #200, Memphis, TN 38103. But maybe with the fact that 75 million baby boomers are working their way up to the bar of mortality now, it's dawning on them that this could happen to them. You have to have real talent to be accepted at the Van Plantan Workshop Theatre. No one escaped Crowther's vitriol: Bendix was "an oaf," Lanny Rees, as son, Junior, looked "slightly frightening," Randall as Babs was "just another shapely blonde," and John Brown as Digger was "extremely disappointing in the flesh." I was thrilled to find IA, where I can find some of those classics. Bendix, Rosemary DeCamp, Richard Long, Meg Randall and John Brown reprised their screen roles for an May 8, 1950 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast. As far as I can tell, he performed it in Memphis only twice, but one of those events made the news because the police were summoned to dig up Digger. This is standard practice when ordering from Ukraine, according to customers wh. But I don't know of anybody who has come in here entirely angry at the prospect of God who has done well with this type of thing, with deaths in the family. The boss' son (Long), who is in love with Babs, suggests that they get married in order to save Riley's job. 1949. Chester A. Riley : Hello, Digger. His frequent exclamation of indignation became one of the most famous catch phrases of the 1940s: "What a revoltin' development this is!" The radio series greatly benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby "Digger" O'Dell (John Brown), "the friendly undertaker." Every time I have a birthday, I realize that Mom's getting a year older. The finger food was good, the talk was uplifting, the music was life-affirming; someone, usually the reverend clergy, could be counted on to declare closure, usually just before the Merlot ran out, and everyone was there but the one who had died. It has to do with the gift of language. And are you a cremation or a burial man? She means other kinds of trouble. And there's somebody else arranging the flowers. It's an easy target; it always is -- you know, the Digger O'Dell [the "friendly undertaker" character in the 1950s television series Life of Riley]. [citation needed] Mel Blanc provided some voices as well, including that of Junior's dog Tiger as well as that of a dog catcher who claimed to have a special bond with dogs. Both [are part of] this effort to say something about something unspeakable -- great love, great loss, great hope, great fear, great doubt, the fist we shake in God's face, asking him, "What did you have in mind here?". I think of disbelief as a faith of its own kind. Though other friends may fail you, I shall be the last to let you down." Jim Gillis: Are you kiddin'? Bearing witness one way or another, that's a key ingredient. I've seen at the end of the day people walking upright away from graves, people walking upright away from fires, as if they were going to survive it. Although Hollywood Reporter announced in January and February 1949 that the film would have its premiere in March 1949 in Cincinnati, no definite information about the premiere was found. The Life of Riley was an American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, a 1950s television series, and a 1958 comic book. And at least so far as my experience is concerned, the living who bear those burdens honorably are better off for it. While the ratio may not be ideal for tomatoes, it can still produce great results with some preparation and understanding of the plant's genetic potential. We make appointments for cremations because we have to go and watch the placement of the body in the retort and the beginning of the process, the identification process that's part of that, and we retrieve the ashes. My mother died on the 27th of October and was buried on the 31st of October, so it was the Eve of All Saints. Whether we consign our dead to scavenger birds, as they do in Tibet, or to the sea, as they do when the sea is around them, or the tree, as our Native Americans did, it doesn't make any difference. Get Ready for a New Season of Gardening -Choose from Tomatoes, Peaches, Corn, Zinnias & More! I found an old newspaper article that said he was born in 1915 and called him a professional endurance man. Among other things, back in the flagpole-sitting days, he stayed aloft 109 days. To Babs's delight, Jeff, who has just moved in next door with his aunt, is a dedicated pre-med student. This is got to be one of the largest collection of a single classic show I have stumbled across. It's an easy target; it always is -- you know, the Digger O'Dell [the "friendly undertaker" character in the 1950s television series Life of Riley]. . Digger O'Dell @diggerodell7655 56 subscribers Subscribe Home Videos Shorts Playlists Community Channels About Videos Play all 16:13 Searching for the lost Asylum (SHD, FX removed to fix some. In October 1949, the NBC network began broadcasting a television series inspired by the radio program, also titled The Life of Riley. Plunged into darkness, Riley takes the advice of friend and neighbor, undertaker "Digger" O'Dell, and invites his guests to a restaurant. But more and more, when we say to them, "You may, and maybe you ought " or, "Maybe someone in your family should be designated, just to go in as your proxy, to say, 'Everything was done as it should be done,'" they do it. People will say, "I'd like something simple and inexpensive," and I want to say, "Well, over here we have simplicity; over here we have cheap." The Life of Riley was the initial release of Brecher Productions, Inc. William Bendix first played "Riley" in the popular NBC radio series on which this film was based, and John Brown played "'Digger' O'Dell" in the series. We saw people start organizing these commemorative events to which everyone was invited but the dead guy. She has her picture on the front page. So I'm interested in it. The Life of Riley is an American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, a 1950s television series, and a 1958 comic book. He'll never amount to anything. Whether in the most abstract sense or in the most particular, this is a safe harbor, a place they can have that conversation. Babs Riley: Guess what? What are you doin' here in the park? Digger kept up his strange act for many years. P-R-E-L-L! Bendix's delivery and the spin he put on his lines made it work. William Bendix is heard as Riley, along with co-stars Paula Winslowe, John Brown, Tommy Cook, and Barbara Eiler - plus series creator Irving Brecher . I guess he likes this blond's cooking. Chester A. Riley: Oh. [in a flashback sequence, Peg has just given birth to her first child]. 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. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. After all, the people whose names are on these markers dont have that luxury. But you have to do that first, because people will sense if you're not willing to do that, if you're just sort of going through the motions. Vance Lauderdale is the history columnist for Memphis magazine and Inside Memphis Business. Unreliable advice on how to handle these situations came from Riley's pal Digger O'Dell, the friendly undertaker, who would sneak in a string of dark-humored jokes before he had to be "shoveling off". The bearing of it is so very, very important. So what you've seen is what I've seen: that people who deal with their dead deal with death better. I'm calling it off now! William Bendix and Digger O'Dell the friendly undertaker - The Life of Riley Complete Broadcast CBS Lux Radio Theatre 1950 (Lp) - Amazon.com Music Buy used: $198.00 $3.99 delivery January 26 - February 2. I know as a person who has grieved before, and I also know as a person who has been next to people in grief, that one of the awful messages on the day is "Life goes on." I cant even blame my wife too much. We can't prearrange that. So yeah, I enjoyed writing that piece. Do you hear that, Peg? But cremation has increased since then by about 10 percent in every decade. He first started doing various stunts in 1932, a time when people were trying to make crazy money with dancing marathons, flagpole sitting, and other endurance feats. And that's very seductive, because, I mean, it's human-to-human contact. The show was canceled after its first season, but was revived in 1953, then ran on the NBC network until August 1958. I enjoy listening to the frogs croak. Does it make it easier? Later, while dropping off the rent to Miss Bogle, Babs receives her first kiss from Jeff. And Mrs. Verrino's eulogy, her narrative of what she and her husband and their child were going through, was a way of sort of mastering this journey. there are very few hands raised in the room, because cremation is often shorthand for disappearance. Chester A. Riley: Hello, Digger. Let's see! It is a sadness and a shame that cremation, the fire in this context, is seen as an industrial process instead of an elemental one, in the way that earth is elemental. Humiliated, Riley vows to Peg that he will become more successful, and after six weeks of working overtime, he volunteers to host the company's Labor Day beach picnic. The Life of Riley starring William Bendix as lovable, blundering, Chester A. Riley, was a radio situation comedy broadcast during and after wartime 40s. Chester A. Riley: What do you think I'm paying you ten cents a week for, to spy on Babs! I do find this recent push for every funeral to be a celebration of life as, in a way, a kind of a cruel joke on people who are in acute grief. By using this site, you agree to our updated. That is a wheel we can only invent at the time it happens. And the components of a funeral sometimes change. But even people who do not believe or claim no religiosity or no particular faith, they are not without some text, some book they regard as, if not holy, it is the handle they're trying to hold onto to get through this. Here in Milford we're around 40 percent, and there are places where it's 60 percent and places where it's 16 percent. It is the ridiculous and the sublime. The trouble is, in our culture we try to have one or the other -- either/or -- and it's both and then some in real experience. The radio series greatly benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby "Digger" O'Dell (John Brown), "the friendly undertaker." The Life of Riley starring William Bendix as lovable, blundering, Chester A. Riley, was a radio situation comedy broadcast during and after wartime 40s. Chester A. Riley: "Babs Riley Featured in Annual School Follies". Jim Gillis: So by her leavin', I'm getting away without goin' out of the house. [3], An unrelated radio show with the title Life of Riley was a summer replacement show heard on CBS from April 12, 1941, to September 6, 1941. Chester A. Riley: I got troubles, Digger. to "what are we going to do?" Not to worry, though. Actor Ted de Corsia's name appears as both "de Corsia" and "deCorsia" in the onscreen credits. Brecher Productions, Inc.; Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc. "Digger" O'Dell, "the friendly undertaker", William Bendix came to the attention of the public in the 1944 Alfred Hitchcock film, Lifeboat , playing a dim-witted sailor who doesn't survive the ordeal. Unknown. The dead matter to the living. Brief Synopsis A factory worker tries to cope when his daughter dates the boss's son. Jackie Gleason starred as Riley during the show's first year, while DeCamp and Lanny Rees reprised their film roles for the series. What age were you when you really seriously thought you might become a funeral director, and how much of your dad's influence was a part of that decision? Barbara 'Babs' Riley: There's still Christmas. And they open your mouth. While we would all agree that death is never funny, this show had an usual character in it by the name of Digby "Digger". And that's unfortunate. I'm the guy that has the hearse, but there's someone else in town who is making a strawberry rhubarb pie to bring to the luncheon afterward, and that's what she's doing on the day. Gillis: Don't argue, because I hate family arguments. The expression "life of Riley" or "living the life of Riley (Reilly)" emerged in the early 1920s, and was probably derived from turn-of-the-century Irish songs, such as "The Best in the House Is None Too Good for Reilly." Chester A. Riley: So was I. I mean, if it was just a matter of forgetting, we would do that. The CBS program starred Lionel Stander as J. Riley Farnsworth and had no real connection with the more famous series that followed a few years later. It was during this period that Gleason played Riley on one episode of the radio series. All the same, 100 percent of the people that have gone with us are grateful that we invited them to go. I think mine will know what to do, too, not because I've said, "Do this or that," but because they have seen life as I have seen it, and they sort of know me and I know them. It was later reused by Benjamin J. Grimm of the Fantastic Four. Do you hear that, Peg? But we are much more willing to go stand next to the hole in the ground than we are willing to stand next to the fire. [citation needed], In 1948, NBC broadcast "two live television test programs based on the radio series. "The Life of Riley Quotes." I like the connection, the sound of the word "process"; it suggests movement, a pilgrimage. There's been a sort of national conversation about funerals over the years. Dunning, John On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio The Internet Movie Database It's amazing! They can coexist. Humans figured out both before they had backhoes and retorts. And what about the formalities, the particular traditions and customs that are a part of the funeral? Chester A. Riley: Hello, Digger. Months after my father died, I can remember this wave of feelings that would come over me, catching me at the most unpredictable times, this wallop of him being dead, him being gone. Babs: Well, I think he ought to get a fair trial. Babs Riley: But Mother, this is the opportunity of my entire life! There is a comfort when you don't have to reinvent that wheel, when we know we have to be at church at a certain time and that these prayers will be said and not those, and that this is accustomed behavior and this is outside the pale, and this is where we go. He was supported by Marjorie Reynolds, replacing both Paula Winslowe and Rosemary DeCamp, as wife Peg; Tom D'Andrea as schemer buddy Jim Gillis; Gloria Blondell (sister of Joan Blondell) as Gillis' wife, Honeybee, and Gregory Marshall as their son Egbert; Lugene Sanders was Babs and Wesley Morgan was Junior. For many gardeners, it starts with tomatoes. t.r., memphis. I've sat with families who said, "Well, we want a closed casket," and I've often asked them, "Well, had they not died yesterday, would you not want to see them today?" series from October 4, 1949, to March 28, 1950. For that matter, a popular plant nursery just outside of town on Highway 64 is called Digger ODells, but thats yet another Digger (real name: Dennis). So yeah, I do find that people who have dealt with their dying -- whether it was taking them to their chemotherapy or sitting those weeks through hospice care, or checking in those weeks through hospice care, because we can't always be physically present -- those people who were thoroughly engaged with this are thoroughly engaged with the rest of it. he must have stuck eith me, because I will go as Digger to a neighborhood "post Halloween" block party this afternoon. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Henry Morgan voiced Riley's father in one episode. It then went into syndicated reruns. I know it won't matter, it will be others, but do you see yourself as the fire or the earth, or --? I cant find any record that Digger ever returned to Bluff City Buick, or to the Bluff City for that matter, to finish the job. Back in Atlanta, a judge allowed him to conduct his stunt for an Atlanta shopping center, but he had to turn the money he would be paid only $2,250 over to his family. Life of Riley won the first Emmy Award (for "Best Film Made For and Shown on Television") with Groucho Marx receiving a credit for the story. Peg Riley: Maybe he's sick or something. Chester A. Riley: I'll tell you what harm there is! Starting with the right soil and conditions can make all the difference when it comes to germination and transplanting of pepper seedlings. All these things are part of the ongoing conversation that we here have. I just gave him a sedative. I got my picture in the paper! I can only take from that the sense that we're on the right track there. When families come in and have their loved one cremated, do you talk to them about going with you to the crematorium? Though other friends may fail you, I shall be the last to let you down.". He's a man who's understood In Brooklyn or in Hollywood. "The Life of Riley" The Billboard Magazine Dec 6, 1947 And sure enough, he came to Memphis in September 1961 to do this stunt for Bluff City Buick, located back then at 739 Union. Well. During a burial in California, a sudden earthquake caved in the sides of his "apartment" and he had to be rescued. He would have probably had a difficult way of managing some of the changes that we see nowadays. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. to "how come? Riley's penchant for turning mere trouble into near-disaster through his well-intentioned bumbling was often aided or instigated by his arch best friend/next-door neighbor, Gillis. Peg Riley: Every day this week, he's been kept in after school. But when people go with us, it's at the back end of an industrial park in Lavonia, near a railroad track, so it's unlike the kind of commemorative surroundings that we have in our local cemeteries -- more is the pity. It follows the changes in our species, certainly in our culture. And I'm the most blissful man in the world. Other photos show preparations for the publicity stunt. Peg Riley: No thanks, dear. Years later I had audio tapes to which I listened to repeatidly and learned to really admire Digger's council to Reilly via puns related to the profession of undertaking. So yes, I think all of these things help to sort of "fix" us in the firmament of where we are at any given time with our youth and our age, our well-being or our infirmity, our dying, our death and our remembrance. It's possible to pay with credit card or Western Union, but PayPal isn't an option. Barbara 'Babs' Riley: Oh Simon, he knows! Chester A. Riley: Okay, maybe he ain't no Gregory Peck, but my boy's got it up here [points to head] . His dramatic life story is so well-known that schoolchildren are taught to recite it for extra credit. He would have figured that out, but I think for him the funeral, the procession, was part of the process. The open casket, it is something that's often mocked. All to the good, I say. producer's chat|readings & links|site map|dvd & transcript|press reaction [after Riley discovers the man he accused of bank robbery is a policeman]. For years, it was propped against a rugged concrete base, in a cluster of crepe myrtles on the southern edge of the park, close to the intersection of Poplar and Cooper. Simon Vanderhopper: Yes sir, I don't let the grass grow under my feet! Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: No, only Latin and Greek. 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