Created as a showcase for Tyrone Power, the series began October 3, 1937, on the Blue Network, with Darryl F. Zanuck introducing his 20th Century-Fox star.
He left in 1939 to make a film in France, and briefly joined the French army when World War II broke out in Europe.
[2] Page and Ameche headed a summer version of the program titled Promoting Priscilla (July–October 1940).
[1] Weekly guest stars included Joan Blondell and Margaret Sullavan.
[1] Only one broadcast of Hollywood Playhouse – "The Sub-Lieutenant" (May 29, 1940), starring Charles Boyer and Margaret Lindsay – is known to survive in radio collections.