This was a thirty-minute comedy series featuring the quarrelsome husband and wife, John and Blanche Bickerson, played by Don Ameche and Frances Langford. The bickering usually began when Blanche could not sleep because of her husband’s incessant snoring.
Who wrote the Bickersons?
By Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. Philip Rapp, a comedy writer whose invention of the battling Bickersons entertained American radio listeners in the 1940’s and created an enduring metaphor for senseless squabbling, died on Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills.
Who played the Bickersons radio show?
DON AMECHE (MAY 31, 1908 – DEC. 6, 1993) | PDX RETRO. Don Ameche was an Academy Award winning American actor and a major radio star, achieving memorable success during the late 1940s playing opposite Frances Langford in The Bickersons (below), a radio comedy series about a combative married couple.