Guest Star Radio

"Have you invested in United States Savings Bonds this week?"

Produced by the U.S. Treasury Department in the 1940s and 1950s as a public service program, Guest Star features a different often top-name "guest star" (singer, actor, comedian) each week to promote the sales of savings bonds.

Guest Star offers a slew of musical numbers, short skits and hilarious jokes throughout. Appearances from film and radio stars included:

Abe Burrows Alan Ladd Al Jolson Barry Wood Beatrice Kay Bing Crosby Bob Hope Boris Karloff Buddy Clark Burns and Allen Dinah Shore Dick Haymes Edward G Robinson Ethel Waters Fibber McGee and Molly Frank Sinatra Gene Autry Ginny Simms Gisele Mackenzie Gloria Swanson Gordon MacRae Great Gildersleeve Hoagy Carmichael Humphrey Bogart Jimmy Durante

Jimmy Stewart Jo Stafford Johnny Cash Johnny Desmond Johnny Mercer Just Plain Bill Kay Kyser Lawrence Welk Lena Horne Lionel Barrymore Milton Berle Nat King Cole One Man's Family Ozzie & Harriet Peggy Lee Perry Como Phil Baker Red Buttons Red Skelton Tallulah Bankhead Tony Martin Van Heflin Walter Brennan William Gargan

For more WWII-era bond-sales related shows, see also: Any Bonds Today?, Four for the Fifth, Guest Star Radio, Keep Em Rollin, Music for Millions, New World A-Coming, Over Here, These are Our Men, Treasury Salute, and Treasury Star Parade.