My Friend Irma
Comedy Section

Catalog #

Comcd 53

Episodes in Collection

63

 

Episodes

SHOW DESCRIPTION: My Friend Irma tells the story of a extremely dim-witted blonde stenographer named Irma Peterson, played by Marie Wilson, and the daily high-jinx that she gets into with her screwy friends. One of Irma's best friends was her logical and very dependable roommate, and narrator of the show, Jane Stacy, played by Cathy Lewis.

FIRST BROADCAST: 1947

LAST BROADCAST: 1954 

CAST: Marie Wilson, Cathy Lewis, John Brown, Hans Conried, Gloria Gordon, Leif Erickson, Alan Reed

THEME:
Marie Wilson created the title role in My Friend
Irma on radio in 1947. Irma was possibly the
kookiest secretary in the entire world. She was
friendly, enthusiastic, sexy, and very wacky.
She just had no sense of logic.