Radio Player to Debut in New Ladd Picture

HOLLYWOOD -- Stacy Harris, famous for his long-standing role in the radio program This is Your F.B.I. has been signed by Paramount to make his debut as a screen actor in Postal Inspector with Alan Ladd and Phyllis Calvert.

Harris will appear as a hard boiled yegg in the cast which also marks the film debut for another New York radio personality, young and lovely Blossom Plumb.

Harris' career started simultaneously with Burt Lancaster's on Broadway.  They both made their footlight bows auspiciously in A Sound of Hunting.  While Lancaster moved to Hollywood and films, Harris went into radio.

Postal Inspector will be directed by Lewis Allen and produced by Robert Fellows.


-Medicine Hat News (Alberta, Canada), July 22, 1949


A Sound of Hunting by Harry Brown opened on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre on November 20, 1945 and closed three weeks later. A World War II comedy/drama, it was filmed by Edward Dmytryk as Eight Iron Men in 1952.  Barney Phillips was cast as Capt. Trelawny, the role played by Stacy Harris on Broadway.