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).

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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).

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Gary Cooper reprises his role as an eccentric from a small town who inherits millions and visits New York, much to his sorrow. A warm comedy based on the Frank Capra film.

Sideny Skolsky does a funny “column of the air.”

The Lux Radio Theatre – Mr Deeds Goes to Town

Barbara Cox (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Leora Thatcher (performer, commercial spokesman), Margaret Brayton (performer, commercial spokesman), Ross Forrester (doubles), William Royale (doubles), Gretchen Thomas, Lou Merrill (doubles), Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), John Gibson (doubles), Melville Ruick (announcer), Sidney Skolsky (intermission guest: Hollywood columnist for the New York Daily News), Robert Riskin (screenwriter), Clarence Budington Kelland (author), Crauford Kent, Margaret Seddon, Margaret McWade, Byron K. Foulger, Edgar Norton, Hal K. Dawson, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Lionel Stander, Cecil B. DeMille, Fay Gillis (intermission guest: aviator, foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune).

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A tuneful romance between an opera singer and a giglio.

The Lux Radio Theatre – Tonight or Never

Jeanette MacDonald, Melvyn Douglas, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis Silvers (music director), Luis Alberni, Melville Ruick (announcer), Lili Hatvany (author), Mary Garden (intermission interview: opera singer and talent scout for MGM), Marcella Napp (intermission guest: casting director for MGM), John Davidson, Greta Myer, Zeffi Tillbury, Lou Merrill (doubles), Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), John Lake, David Kerman, Ross Forrester, Charles Emerson, Zahuri Elmassian (chorus), Emily Beauchamp (chorus), Mildred Carroll (chorus), Windona Black (chorus), Mary Mahoney (chorus), Dorothy McCarthy (chorus), Cornelia Glover (chorus), Frank Carpenter (chorus), Alfred Garr (chorus), Richard Davis (chorus), Russell Horton (chorus), Kenneth Rundquist (chorus), Tudor Williams (chorus), Dudley Russell (chorus), William Brandt (chorus), Bernie Altstock (chorus), Jerrie Gail (commercial spokesman), Jean Colbert (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).

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A nice kid with all the breaks going against him gets ten years in the Big House.

And he finds love!

The Lux Radio Theatre – Criminal Code

Edward G. Robinson, Beverly Roberts, Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), Lou Merrill (doubles), Earle Ross, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Noel Madison, Paul Guilfoyle, Martin Flavin (author), Gladys Lloyd (intermission guest: wife of Edward G. Robinson), James B. Holohan (intermission quest: former warden of San Quentin), Walter Kingsford, William Williams (triples), Richard Abbott (triples), Ernie Adams (doubles), Justina Wayne (doubles), Joe Franz (doubles), Hilda Haywood (doubles), Margaret Brayton (doubles, commercial spokesman), Ross Forrester (triples), David Kerman (triples), Charles Emerson (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).

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A young woman dreams of riches by marrying royalty, and then actually falls in love with the guy.

After the story, Fred MacMurray sings When is a Kiss not a Kiss?

The Lux Radio Theatre – The Gilded Lily

Cecil B. DeMille (host), Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, David Niven, George Chandler, C. Montague Shaw, Chester Clute (doubles), John Gibson (triples), Georgie Simmons (doubles), Lou Merrill (triples), Frank Nelson (triples, announcer), William Royale (triples), Mary Alden (doubles, commercial spokesman), Warren McCollum (doubles), Ross Forrester (doubles), Marilyn Cooper (commercial spokesman), Rachel Rojas (Real name is Janet Riesenfeld, daughter of composer Hugo Risenfeld. As an intermission guest, she speaks about the Spanish civil war), Linton Wells (intermission guest: New York Herald Tribune reporter), Claude Binyon (screenwriter), Melville Baker (author), Jack Kirland (author), Melville Ruick (announcer), Frank Woodruff (director), Louis Silvers (music director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).

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A young doctor learns the hard way what a life dedicated to medicine really means.

The Lux Radio Theatre – Men In White

Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Frances Farmer, Cecil B. DeMille, Edith Head (intermission guest: costume designer for Paramount), Frank Reicher, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Paul Guilfoyle, Victor G. Heiser (intermission guest: physician, author), Crauford Kent, Thomas Mills, Kenneth Hansen, Brent Sargent, Lou Merrill, Ross Forrester, Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Dorothy Gray, David Kerman (doubles), Margaret Brayton, Sarah Selby (performer, commercial spokesman), Mary Jane Higby, Doris Louray, William Royale (commercial spokesman), Sidney S. Kingsley (author), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).

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An excellent drama of an English couple from 1900 to 1936, from the Boer War to the “present” day. Very well done!

Noel Coward speaks from his dressing room at the National Theatre in New York.

The Lux Radio Theatre – Cavalcade

Herbert Marshall, Madeleine Carroll, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Scott, Elsa Buchanan, Melville Ruick (announcer), Noel Coward (author, intermission guest), Una O’Connor, Leonard Mudie, Helena Grant, George Kirby, Martin Field, Ra Hould, June Lockhart, Jennifer Bruce, Wauna Lidwell, Ben Guy Phillips (doubles), Frederick Sewell (triples), Josephine Brown (doubles), David Niven, Vernon Steele (narrator), Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Lou Merrill (doubles), David Kerman, Lauretta Puck, Ross Forrester, Charles Emerson, Rudy Schrager (performer), Margaret Brayton (commercial spokesman), George Wells (adaptor), Frank Woodruff (director), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).

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