# Brave Tomorrow

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{{Short description|1943-1944 old-time radio soap opera}}
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'''''Brave Tomorrow''''' is an [old-time radio](/source/old-time_radio) [soap opera](/source/soap_opera) in the [United States](/source/United_States). It was broadcast on [NBC](/source/NBC) October 11, 1943 – June 30, 1944.<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |last=Dunning |first=John |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow,+soap+opera%22&pg=PA111 |year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=111 |edition=Revised |accessdate=2019-08-08}}</ref>

==Format==
''Brave Tomorrow'' focused on Hal and Louise Lambert and the challenges that they faced while raising daughters Jean and Marty during [World War II](/source/World_War_II).<ref name=dunningota/> A continuing facet of the drama was the older daughter's marriage to a military man who was in training to serve overseas.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cox|first1=Jim|title=The A to Z of American Radio Soap Operas|date=2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810863491|pages=47–48|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mQiurxgEDkIC&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow+The+account%22&pg=PA47|accessdate=27 December 2016|language=en}}</ref>

Ivory Snow sponsored the 15-minute program.<ref name=dunningota/>

==Personnel==
The characters on ''Brave Tomorrow'' and the actors who portrayed them are shown in the table below.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Character !! Actor
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| Hal Lambert || [Raymond Edward Johnson](/source/Raymond_Edward_Johnson)<br>[Roger DeKoven](/source/Roger_De_Koven)
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| Louise Lambert || Jeanette Dowling
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| Jean Lambert || Nancy Douglass<br>[Flora Campbell](/source/Flora_Campbell)
|-
| Marty Lambert || Jone Allison<br>[Andree Wallace](/source/Andree_Wallace)
|-
| Brad Forbes || [Frank Lovejoy](/source/Frank_Lovejoy)
|-
| Whit Davis || [House Jameson](/source/House_Jameson)
|-
| Mr. Brink || Percy Hemus<ref name="bb010144">{{cite magazine|title=Five-Way Pickup|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wAwEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow%22+radio&pg=PT10|accessdate=27 December 2016|magazine=Billboard|date=January 1, 1944|page=11}}</ref><br>G. Sayne Gordon<ref name=bb010144/>
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| Mrs. Brink || Ethel Wilson<ref name=bb010144/>
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| Phil Barnes || Carl Eastman<ref>{{cite book|last1=Buxton|first1=Frank|last2=Owen|first2=Bill|title=The Big Broadcast: 1920-1950|url=https://archive.org/details/bigbroadcast192100buxt|url-access=registration|date=1972|publisher=The Viking Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/bigbroadcast192100buxt/page/38 38]}}</ref>
|}
'''Source:''' ''Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows''<ref name="rp">{{cite book |last1=Terrace |first1=Vincent |title=Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows |date=2 September 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0528-9 |page=50 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EhOBCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22Brave+Tomorrow%22+NBC&pg=PA50 |access-date=October 23, 2022 |language=en}}</ref> except as noted.

Others heard regularly on the program were Ginger Jones, Myra McCormick, Margaret MacDonald and [Paul Stewart](/source/Paul_Stewart_(actor)). [Ed Herlihy](/source/Ed_Herlihy) was the announcer. William Meader provided the music.<ref name=rp/> The writer was Ruth Adams Knight.<ref name=dunningota/>

==See also==
{{Portal|Radio}} 
*[List of radio soap operas](/source/List_of_radio_soap_operas)
*[Radio drama](/source/Radio_drama)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{US radio soaps}}

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