Last night I watched "The Great Gildersleeve", a B&W comedy from 1942. This is an amusing family-friendly film with its humor based on the various characters' exploits, clever dialogue, and excellent writing. Harold Peary plays Throckmorton Gildersleeve, a good-hearted chap who always seems to get into trouble. The Great Gildersleeve was originally a radio show which ran from 1941 into the 50's. Radio success led to his appearances in several movies, including four starring-role features. Gildersleeve was known for his trademark laugh. Steve Osborne had this on one of his recent lists. The print has a couple of jump splices but otherwise is pretty clean and sharper than these pics indicate. For those who are interested in listening to a few free samples of the radio show, try this link: https://www.greatgildersleeve.com/listennow.php

I have heard of the character, but that's all. Sounds like a rare print?

Hi Robert,

Most likely there are not a lot of these prints around, as I don't think it is a very popular film title. This print was a "C&C" print made for TV broadcast, so not a true theatrical print. Apparently C&C bought out RKO in the 1950's and then sold packages of titles to television stations for rebroadcast. At least that is what I recall reading. I have only seen a couple other Gildersleeve titles up for sale in the past few years.

Yes, that's correct about C&C reissuing RKO prints for TV.