Frank and Anne Hummert, Producers of Mr. Keen Tracer of Lost Persons
Frank and Anne Hummert are credited with bringing in at least 125 separate series to the airwaves.
One of the longest running was Mr. Keen Tracer of Lost Persons.
The consummate production dynasty over which they presided extended far beyond the serialized melodrama that became their trademark.
Their genres also included music, mystery, juvenile adventure, quiz, sports, news, comedy, and dramatic theater.
The couple possibly influenced more old-time radio listeners than anyone else of their time.
The Hummerts, it seemed, tried to appeal to everyone's tastes and needs.
By the 1940s, the twosome controlled four and a half hours of national weekday broadcast schedules.
The characters they invented live on in the memories of people even many years after their deaths.
Frank Hummert was born in 1882 and died in 1966. Anne Hummert was born in 1905 and died in 1996.
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