page_title: Clifford Goldsmith
hierarchical_section_title: Clifford Goldsmith
caption_attribution_description: Photo celebrating the fifth anniversary of the radio program The Aldrich Family. Author Clifford Goldsmith, whose play. What A Life, was the basis for his creation of the radio show, is pictured at center, surrounded by four young actresses who played the role of Mary Aldrich, Henry's sister, on the program. From left-Mary Rolfe, Ann Lincoln, Mary Shipp and Charita Bauer. Bauer went on to the long-time role as Bertha "Bert" Miller on the radio and television versions of the daytime drama, The Guiding Light. Bauer was heard in the role from 1950 to 1956 on radio and played it on television from 1952 until her death in 1985.
context_page_description: Clifford Goldsmith was an American writer, best known for his play What a Life, from which The Aldrich Family radio and television series and the Henry Aldrich film series were derived. In 1943, Time magazine reported that Goldsmith earned "radio's fattest writing fee."
context_section_description: Clifford Goldsmith (March 29, 1899 – July 11, 1971) was an American writer, best known for his play What a Life, from which The Aldrich Family radio and television series and the Henry Aldrich film series were derived. In 1943, Time magazine reported that Goldsmith earned "radio's fattest writing fee ($3,000 for one show a week)."
caption: In 1943, author Clifford Goldsmith and actresses Mary Rolfe, Ann Lincoln, Mary Shipp, and Charita Bauer posed with a cake in celebration of the fifth anniversary of The Aldrich Family radio program. Goldsmith wrote the show's scripts.
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