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Host

M

Melville Ruick

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Arthur Q. Bryan

B

Beulah Bondi

C

Cecil B. DeMille

C

Celeste Rush

C

Charles Seel

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500 Shares of the India Company

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

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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

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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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His Girl Friday

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, complicate

Ep 275 · Monday, September 30, 1940 · 59:30

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Craig's Wife

A hard, cruel wife values her house and position above her husband and all human relations. An enjoyable drama. The story was produced on The Lux Video Theatre on December 2, 195

Ep 307 · Monday, May 12, 1941 · 59:57

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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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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

Knute Rockne

Win one for the Gipper! Both the Warner Brothers film and this broadcast were based on a story originally broadcast in December, 1938 on "The Cavalcade Of America."

Ep 284 · Monday, December 2, 1940 · 59:30

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The Moon's Our Home

A comedy about a romance between an author and an actress.

Ep 294 · Monday, February 10, 1941 · 59:00

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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

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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 287

Young Tom Edison

Monday, December 23, 1940 · 59:32

Lux Radio Theatre, Episode 287

Young Tom Edison

Monday, December 23, 1940 · 59:32

Mickey Rooney

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CBS net

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

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Character, craft, and living-room stage plays.

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1940–1942: the hinge years.

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A whole decade on the dial.

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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

That night in history

Headlines

  • 1940 — World War II: Himara is captured by the Greek army.
  • 1940 — Captain America Comics #1, containing the first appearance of the superhero Captain America, is published.

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