Editing Ronald Colman (section)

===Radio and television===
As early as 1942, Colman joined forces with several other Hollywood luminaries to inaugurate international broadcasts by the [[CBS]] radio network over La Cadena de las Americas (The Network of the Americas) under the supervision of the [[Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] chaired by [[Nelson Rockefeller]].<ref>''Time'' – Radio: La Cadena, June 1, 1942 [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,790530-1,00.html Ronald Colman, La Cadena de las Americas on Content.time.com]</ref> In the process, he contributed substantially to the implementation of President [[Franklin Roosevelt]]'s [[cultural diplomacy]] initiatives throughout South America during World War II.<ref>Roosevelt, Franklin D., [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16152#axzz1kZmKEFYg  "Executive Order 8840 Establishing the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs"], July 30, 1941. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, [[University of California, Santa Barbara]]</ref><ref>''In All His Glory: The Life and Times of William S. Paley and the Birth of Modern Broadcasting''. Salley Bedell Smith. Random House Trade Publications, New York, USA, 2002, Chapter 18 {{ISBN|978-0-307-78671--5}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=W4IgALTXtH4C&dq=William+Paley+La+Cadena+de+las+Americas&pg=PT163 William S. Paley and La Cadena de las Americas and Franklin Roosevelt on Books.google.com See Chapter 18]</ref><ref>''Time'' – Radio: La Cadena, June 1, 1942 [https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,790530-1,00.html William S. Paley, La Cadena de las Americas on Content.time.com]</ref>
 
Colman's vocal talents contributed to National Broadcasting Company programming on [[D-Day]], 6 June 1944. On that day, Colman read "Poem and Prayer for an Invading Army", written by [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]] for exclusive radio use by NBC.<ref>{{cite book |title=Poem and prayer for an invading army |last1=Millay |first1=Edna St. Vincent |last2=National Broadcasting Company |date=1944 |publisher=National Broadcasting Company |location=New York |language=en |oclc=1105316}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/NBCCompleteBroadcastDDay/CBD-440606_NBC1930-PoemandPrayerForAnInvadingArmy.mp3 |title=Audio recording of "Poem and Prayer for an Invading Army" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, read by Ronald Colman. |date=6 June 1944 |website=Internet Archive |access-date=5 June 2019}}</ref>

Beginning in 1945, Colman made many guest appearances on ''[[The Jack Benny Program]]'' on radio, alongside his second wife, stage and screen actress Benita Hume, whom he married in 1938. Their comedy work as Benny's perpetually exasperated next-door neighbors led to their own [[radio comedy]], ''[[The Halls of Ivy]]'' from 1950 to 1952, created by ''[[Fibber McGee & Molly]]'' mastermind [[Don Quinn]], on which the Colmans played the literate, charming president of a middle American college and his former-actress wife. Listeners were surprised to discover that the episode of 24 January 1951, "The Goya Bequest" – a story examining the bequest of a Goya painting that was suspected of being a fraud hyped by its late owner to avoid paying customs duties when bringing it to the United States – was written by Colman himself, who poked fun at his accomplishment while taking a rare turn giving the evening's credits at the show's conclusion. ''The Halls of Ivy'' ran on [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] radio from 1950 to 1952; [[The Halls of Ivy (TV series)|an adaptation of the same name]] was on [[Columbia Broadcasting System|CBS]] television for the 1954–55 season.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Becker |first1=Christine |title=Televising Film Stardom in the 1950s |journal=Framework |url-access=subscription |via= |date=1 October 2005 |url=https://www.questia.com/read/1P3-1001342431 |access-date=}}{{dead link|date=July 2021}}</ref>

Colman was also the host and occasional star of the syndicated anthology ''[[Favorite Story]]'' (1946–49).<ref name="dunningota">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Favorite+Story,+transcribed%22&pg=PA244 |last=Dunning |first=John |author-link=John Dunning (detective fiction author) |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |section=Favorite Story |date=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |page=244 |edition=Revised |access-date=2019-09-19}}</ref> Of note was his narration and portrayal of [[Ebenezer Scrooge|Scrooge]] in a 1948 adaptation of ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''.