Best known as the blustery storyteller and his witty, long suffering wife, Jim and Marian Jordan did in fact have a lot in common with Fibber and Molly, the characters they created for themselves. Married in 1918, The Jordans worked to be entertainers together. Spending the next nearly seven years trying to break into show business and failing, The Jordans finally got their chance in 1924 when they rushed to a radio station, sure they could perform better than the singing act they’d just heard on the same station.

The rest indeed is history, but it was a history marked with many ups and downs as well as a multitude of other characters, real and fictional, joining Jim and Marian as they made ‘Fibber McGee and Molly’ not only a hit on the radio, but a remarkable page all its own in American history.