Robert Hardy Andrews

Charles Robert Douglas Hardy Andrews (October 19, 1903 – November 11, 1976) was a reporter, scriptwriter for radio, television, and movies,

Career Andrews began his career as a reporter, then city editor for the Minneapolis Journal,

He began writing radio soap operas when the noted producer team of Frank and Anne Hummert were impressed by Three Girls Lost, a work of serial fiction he had written for the Chicago Daily News. One time a week of air-mailed scripts for Just Plain Bill were lost in a plane crash and he had no copies, so he dictated a new script for a show over the telephone and a stenographer typed it out while the show was on the air, delivering it to the actors page by page.

Television He was a consultant on the CBS television series The Millionaire, which had the same premise as If I Had a Million, from Windfall: A Novel about Ten Million Dollars. Between 1954 and 1970, he wrote scripts for episodes of eight other television series, including Thriller and Death Valley Days.

Works Books

Three Girls Lost (1930) One Girl Found (1930) Burning Gold (1945) Legend of a Lady: The Story of Rita Martin (1949) Great Day in the Morning (1950) A Corner of Chicago (1963)

Radio scripts

Betty and Bob Just Plain Bill Judy and Jane Ma Perkins Skippy The Stolen Husband Terry and Mary

Film scripts

Girls of the Road

Personal life Colman Robert Hardy Andrews is the son of Robert Hardy Andrews and Irene Colman (née Bressette).