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The Lux Radio Theatre, Vol. 3 Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

The Lux Radio Theatre was perhaps one of the most prestigious and longest-running shows from radio’s Golden Age. It featured the greatest stars in Hollywood appearing in hour-long radio adaptations of their biggest motion pictures. Cecil B. DeMille was the web host (from 1936-1945) for any lavish creation of that which was to become a veritable checklist of many of Hollywood’s greatest films from your mid-1930s through the middle-1950s.

The stars from the movie usually appeared within their audio counterparts, although about The Lux Radio Theatre, Vol. 3 occasionally agreements or schedules designed that another acting professional took the component. The productions were broadcast live, with a full orchestra, before a large studio audience. Sponsored by Lever Brothers, the makers of Lux Soap, The Lux Radio Theater found radio in 1934 and lasted until 1955 for a complete of 926 hour-long broadcasts. It transitioned to Television in thirty-minute weekly installments in 1950 with Wayne Mason as sponsor.

This volume includes eight Lux Radio Theatre episodes:

12/11/39 – ‘In Name Only’ with Cary Grant and Carole Lombard3/5/45 – ‘Disputed Passage’ with Alan Ladd and Akim Tamiroff3/19/45 – ‘Grissley’s Millions’ with Pat O’Brien and Lynn Bari6/18/45 – ‘The Canterville Ghost’ with Charles Laughton and Margaret O’Brien1/21/46 – ‘Johnny Keen’ with Robert Taylor and Van Heflin2/11/46 – ‘Now, Voyager’ with Bette Davis and Gregory Peck11/10/47 – ‘The Dark Corner’ with Lucille Ball and Tag Stevens11/17/47 – ‘Nobody Lives Forever’ with Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman