Later Work
McNamee continued to broadcast into the 1930s, as an announcer on Ed Wynn's and Rudy Vallee's weekly programs. He played straight man for Wynn, reacting to Wynn's gags. He also worked in motion pictures, narrating Krakatoa (1933), Universal Pictures' weekly Universal Newsreels, and Camera Thrills (1935), an Academy Award-nominated short subject produced and directed by Charles E. Ford. In the early 1940s, he hosted Behind the Mike for NBC.
He opened each broadcast by saying, "Good afternoon (or evening), ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience"; and closed each broadcast with, "This is Graham McNamee speaking. Goodnight, all."
He was married twice: the first time, in 1921, to singer Josephine Garrett. They were divorced in 1932, and he married Anne Lee Sims in 1934.
McNamee died at the age of 53 of a brain embolism after an illness that lasted a little over a week. He was buried in Mount Calvary Cemetery in Columbus, Ohio.
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