Aunt Jenny

Aunt Jenny was an advertising character created for Spry Vegetable Shortening. Primarily portrayed by Edith Spencer, she was best known as host and narrator of the long-lived radio show, Aunt Jenny's Real Life Stories, which ran from 1937 to 1956.

Aunt Jenny?s Real Life Stories

Aunt Jenny?s best-remembered aspect was the long-running radio show, Aunt Jenny?s Real Life Stories, which made its debut on CBS on January 18, 1937. The show took the format of a dramatic serial or soap opera, presenting a different story weekly, and running for fifteen minutes from 10:45 to 11:00 each weekday morning. The stories featured typical soap opera plots involving the people of a small American town called Littleton. Aunt Jenny herself was not the focus of these stories, but served as host and narrator, and would present cooking instruction, generally in the form of easy recipes which included Spry Vegetable Shortening as an ingredient.

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CBS - January 18 - 1937 - Soap opera

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Aunt Jenny was played by Edith Spencer, who served not only as the voice of Jenny but also provided her visual appearance in promotional materials. The announcer of the show was actor Dan Seymour. Animal imitator Henry Boyd provided the warbling of Aunt Jenny?s canary. Like most soap operas, the show had a large revolving cast over the years, serving as a springboard into professional acting for future stars such as Richard Widmark. Eventually, Edith Spencer left the show and was replaced by Agnes Young, who sounded reasonably similar to Spencer but did not look like her. Finally, on September 28 1956, the show?s long run ended for good. Aunt Jenny was off the air permanently.

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Richard Widmark - September 28 - 1956

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