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Host

M

Melville Ruick

Cast›

Arthur Q. Bryan

C

Cecil B. DeMille

C

Charles Seel

C

Claudette Colbert

Fred MacMurray

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Prewar Nights

Before the war changed the dial (through 1941).

24 episodes

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Fibber McGee and Molly

500 Shares of the India Company

Fibber gives his worthless shares of the India Company to a museum.

Ep 1111 · Tuesday, March 8, 1955 · 14:26

Lux Radio Theatre

Lucky Partners

A boy and a girl go partners on a winning sweepstakes ticket. Romance is sure to follow. The boy turns out to be a famous painter. An interview with the president of the National

Ep 450 · Monday, September 25, 1944 · 59:29

Lux Radio Theatre

Break of Hearts

This is a rehearsal recording. A romance about a great orchestra conductor and his stormy marriage with a beautiful composer. The program closing at this rehearsal was apparently

Ep 448 · Monday, September 11, 1944 · 61:09

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Same series — shared cast and standout nights

Lux Radio Theatre

Young Tom Edison

Hollywood's version of Edison's youth in Port Huron, Ohio.

Ep 287 · Monday, December 23, 1940 · 59:32

Lux Radio Theatre

Appointment for Love

A romance/comedy about a playwright and a doctor. There's an excellent singing Lux commercial forty-five minutes into the program. Charles Boyer is congratulated on becoming an A

Ep 340 · Monday, February 23, 1942 · 59:48

Lux Radio Theatre

Remember the Night

A good romance story about a prosecutor who winds up taking a beautiful thief with him on a Christmas visit to his mother. Good radio. The story was used again on The Lux Radio T

Ep 256 · Monday, March 25, 1940 · 59:47

Lux Radio Theatre

True Confessions

A lawyer's wife just cannot tell the truth, even when she has to deny committing murder! This is the first broadcast of The Lux Radio Theatre to originate from Hollywood's Vine St

Ep 263 · Monday, May 13, 1940 · 59:54

Lux Radio Theatre

The Shop Around the Corner

The well-done romance about co-workers in a store who fight constantly, but who are lovers by correspondence and don't even know that they work in the same shop.

Ep 313 · Monday, June 23, 1941 · 59:55

Lux Radio Theatre

Third Finger, Left Hand

A businesswoman invents a husband to protect her career, when in he walks!

Ep 319 · Monday, September 29, 1941 · 59:50

Lux Radio Theatre

The Lady Is Willing

An actress marries a baby doctor so she can adopt a baby.

Ep 385 · Monday, March 1, 1943 · 58:11

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  • Audio from Internet Archive (OTRR_Lux_Radio_Theater_Singles). Curated by OTRR. Goldie does not claim ownership of this broadcast.
  • Cast and sponsor data from RadioGold Index (J. David Goldin / UMKC Libraries).
  • Historical context from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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Lux Radio Theatre, Episode 275

His Girl Friday

Monday, September 30, 1940 · 59:30

Lux Radio Theatre, Episode 275

His Girl Friday

Monday, September 30, 1940 · 59:30

Jack Carson

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Network

A story based on "The Front Page," by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Hildy Johnson becomes a woman in this version of a mile-a-minute comedy about the newspaper game, complicated by that escaped killer in the desk!

Drama Desk

Character, craft, and living-room stage plays.

24 episodes

Early Forties

1940–1942: the hinge years.

24 episodes

The Forties

A whole decade on the dial.

24 episodes

Hour-Long Nights

When you want a full-length appointment.

24 episodes

Latest Air Dates

The newest broadcast dates in the archive.

24 episodes

Lux Radio Theatre

Mister Lucky

The program opening is slightly upcut; the final ten seconds of the last commercial and the system cue have been deleted. The owner of a gambling ship is up to no good with a beau

Ep 410 · Monday, October 18, 1943 · 57:47

That night in history

Headlines

  • 1940 — Two Avro Ansons collide in mid-air over New South Wales, Australia, remain locked together, then land safely.
  • 1940 — World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.

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