Some of our favorite and most prominent women at the radio microphone as  actors include:     Agnes Moorehead  - the first lady of SUSPENSE!  Mercedes McCambridge   Lurene Tuttle   Arlene Francis    Mary Jane Higby   Natalie Park   Virginia Gregg   Anne Elstner   Virginia Payne   Mary Margaret McBride:  The "Oprah" of her time with the largest radio audience   Ora Nichols: The mother of sound effects. She founded the craft of radio sound effects, although it would eventually become a male-dominated portion of radio   Peg Lynch:  The best comedy writer in radio who also starred in her own shows   (Mary) Kathleen Hite:  The first woman writer on the CBS westerns who would go on to write nearly all of the "Ft. Laramie" scripts and later, many TV westerns   Betty Mandeville:  Directed "The FBI in Peace and War" thus becoming the first woman to direct a crime show in prime time   Ruth Woodman: Creator and writer of " Death Valle...
Old Time Radio Shows from the Golden Age of Radio