The Romance of Helen Trent

The Romance of Helen Trent was a radio soap opera which aired on CBS from October 30, 1933 to June 24, 1960 for a total of 7,222 episodes.

Stevens, who had recently finished playing the title role on the radio soap Kitty Foyle, was only 22 when she joined the cast.

Stevens felt her character was boring and remembered the director allowed the actors to "fall around and scream with laughter during rehearsals.

An unusual incident occurred during a 1948 broadcast, as documented in Tune in Tomorrow (1968), the memoir by Mary Jane Higby, who portrayed Cynthia Carter on the program.

As crew members tried to locate the voice inside the studio, the man proceeded to give sexually graphic examples of what Gil should do with Helen.

Julie Stevens in a posed CBS promotional photo for *The Romance of Helen Trent* . Radio publicity stills such as these were never as common as photos of actors at microphones. They were usually shot at an exterior location with a minimum of props and costumes in a spontaneous, near-improvised attempt to recreate the audio characters.