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A fascinating story about a sailor lost at sea, on a raft, for almost three months.
The script was re-used on the program on January 11, 1944.
Words at War – Eighty-Three Days
Paul Mann, Paul Gordon, Tom Hoyer, Ken Lynch, Myron McCormick, William Quinn, Jackson Beck, Glenn Anders, Morris Mamorsky (composer), Joseph Losey (director), Max Goberman (conductor), Mark Murphy (author), Edith Sommer (adaptor).
The funny story of the man forced to spend $1,000,000 to inherit more. Host Cecil B. DeMille mentions the Fred Allen feud to Jack Benny.
The Lux Radio Theatre – Brewster’s Millions
Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Abe Reynolds, Cecil B. DeMille, Crauford Kent, Eddie Kane, Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), Fred Harrington, Hal K. Dawson, Helena Grant, Helen Keers, Ynez Seabury, John Gibson, Lee Millar, Lionel Belmore, Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Margaret Brayton, Melville Ruick (announcer), Ross Forrester, William Royale, Winchell Smith (stage adaptor), Byron Ongley (stage adaptor), George Barr McCutcheon (author), Marjorie Wood (intermission guest: winner of the Irish Sweepstakes), Norbert Janssen (intermission guest: winner of the Irish Sweepstakes), William Mondshine (intermission guest: designer of silk stockings for the stars), Doris Louray, Jean Colbert (commercial spokesman), Betty Stewart (commercial spokesman), Ed Beloin (writer of Jack’s curtain call), Bill Morrow (writer of Jack’s curtain call), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).
An emotional story about a Chinese man married to a Japanese woman while their countries are at war.
Pearl Buck, author of the classic novel The Good Earth, speaks after the story.
The Campbell Playhouse -The Patriot
Anna May Wong, Bernard Herrmann (composer, conductor), Edgar Barrier, Elliott Reid, Ernest Chappell (announcer), Everett Sloane, Myron McCormick, Orson Welles (host), Pearl S. Buck, Ray Collins (narrator).
An American reporter romances a European princess.
Not an easy episode to track down!
The Lux Radio Theatre – Graustark
Anna Sten, James Gleason, Moroni Olsen, Winifred Harris, Frank Nelson (doubles, announcer), Lee Millar, Leo McCabe, Eddie Kane (doubles), Lou Merrill (triples), David Kerman (doubles), Ross Forrester (doubles), Margaret Brayton, Mary Lou Fisher, Charles Emerson (doubles), Rufus LeMaire (intermission guest: executive assistant to the production head at Paramount), George Barr McCutcheon (author), Melville Ruick (announcer), Frank Woodruff, Louis Silvers (music director), George Wells (adaptor), Cecil B. DeMille (host), Gene Raymond, Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).
A story about Frenchmen in Nazi concentration camps, and how one of them escaped.
Keep in mind this is based on what was thought to have been taking place in concentration camps in 1942.
Words at War – They Shall Not Have Me
Les Damon, Mady Christians, John Berry, Peter Capell, Lon Clark, Joe DeSantis, Tom Hoyer, Norman Lloyd, Herbert Ratner, Maurice Tarplin, Jean Helion (author), Kenneth White (adaptor), Morris Mamorsky (adaptor, conductor), Joseph Losey (director).
Edna Ferber, the author, also makes her acting debut in the story and speaks about her novel after the drama. The classic about love on the Mississippi features Helen Morgan in the role she made famous – and that made her famous.
The Campbell Playhouse – Show Boat
Edna Ferber (author), Ernest Chappell (announcer), Everett Sloane, Grace Cotten, Helen Morgan (?), Margaret Sullavan, Orson Welles (host), Ray Collins (narrator), William Johnstone.
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