In addition to movies and stage, Robert Light also was the first U. S. Armed Forces Network Radio broadcaster, signing the network on the air during WWII. He was also president of the Southern California Boradcasters Association until 1979, Advertising executive during the early 1950s, director and producer of Television shows, producer and writer of radio shows, including live variety radio shows.
Taught advertising and radio broadcasting in the Los Angeles Community College school system for twenty years.It was said at his funeral that during his live audience radio variety shows he insisted all performers provide a script, in advance. He almost refused to allow a vaudeville act to perform live when they failed to produce their script.Wrote and directed the first Television show for NBC.Signed Armed Forces Network Radio on the air for the first time during WWII in Europe. Along with a fellow actor, Broderick Crawford , he built and organized the first U.S. Army radio station. Light then became the first commander of AFN, headquartered in the Pentagon.Second husband of Sheena Easton .
In the depths of the Depression, a party game brings dizzy socialite Irene Bullock to the city dump where she meets Godfrey, a derelict, and ends by hiring him as family butler. He finds the Bullocks to be the epitome of idle rich, and nutty as the proverbial fruitcake. Soon, the dramatizing Irene is in love with her 'protege'...who feels strongly that a romance between servant and employer is out of place, regardless of that servant's mysterious past...