He was able to gain steady employment, but soon tired of the life on the road.
Jim's voice teacher gave him a recommendation for work as a professional in Chicago, and he followed it. When she started seeing Jim Jordan, the Driscolls were far from approving of either him or his ideas. Marian's parents had attempted to discourage her professional aspirations. Both attended the same Catholic church, where they met at choir practice. Jim wanted to be a singer, and Marian wanted to be a music teacher. Jordan was the seventh of eight children born to James Edward Jordan, a farmer, and Mary (née Tighe) Jordan, while Driscoll was the twelfth of thirteen children born to Daniel P., a coalminer, and wife Anna (née Carroll) Driscoll. The stars of the program were husband-and-wife team Jim Jordan (1896–1988) and Marian Driscoll Jordan (1898–1961), who were natives of Peoria, Illinois. A 1959 attempt to adapt the series to television with a different cast and new writers was both a critical and commercial failure, which, coupled with Marian Jordan's death shortly thereafter, brought the series to a finish. At the peak of the show's success in the 1940s, it was adapted into a string of feature films. As with radio comedies of the era, Fibber McGee and Molly featured an announcer, house band and vocal quartet for interludes.
It featured the misadventures of a working-class couple: habitual storyteller Fibber McGee and his sometimes terse but always loving wife Molly, living among their numerous neighbors and acquaintances in the community of Wistful Vista. The title characters were created and portrayed by Jim and Marian Jordan, a husband-and-wife team that had been working in radio since the 1920s.įibber McGee and Molly followed up the Jordans' previous radio sitcom Smackout.
One of the most popular and enduring radio series of its time, it ran as a stand-alone series from 1935 to 1956, and then continued as a short-form series as part of the weekend Monitor from 1957 to 1959. The situation comedy was a staple of the NBC Red Network from 1936 on, after originating on NBC Blue in 1935. Fibber McGee and Molly (1935–1959) was a longtime highly popular husband-and-wife team radio comedy program.
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