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Lux Radio Theatre was an American radio show that ran on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35), the CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Every week they broadcast an hour-long adaptation of a popular film or Broadway play, often starring members of the original cast. [1]
At least once, Lux Radio Theatre offered a presentation without any known performers; its adaptation of This Is the Army during World War II featured a cast of American soldiers. A famous urban legend claimed that actor Sonny Tufts was slated to appear as a guest alongside Joan Fontaine for a production of The Major and the Minor on Lux Radio ...
In 1948, NBC broadcast "two live television test programs based on the radio series." [6] The April 13 episode starred Herb Vigran as Riley, and the April 20 episode had Buddy Gray in the title role. [6] [7] A third episode was also produced the same year with Lon Chaney Jr. as Riley and DeCamp as Peg, but not aired. It is available on various ...
The creation of Ford Theater provided "a prestige hour dramatic show" for NBC after it tried to obtain Lux Radio Theatre from CBS or Theatre Guild on the Air from ABC. [3] Plans for the program called for broadcasts of "adaptations of great plays, classic motion pictures, best-selling novels, prize-winning short stories, and an occasional ...
A one-hour radio adaptation of the film was broadcast January 9, 1950 on Lux Radio Theatre. Stanwyck and Lancaster recreated their screen roles. [9] The original May 18, 1943 broadcast of the radio program Suspense featured Agnes Moorehead in the role. It was repeated no fewer than seven times. [5]
Colbert made numerous appearances on radio, most notably in the Lux Radio Theater, and sporadically on other radio programs. Over the decades, she appeared on several television shows, with her final appearance being The Two Mrs. Grenvilles miniseries in 1985, in which she played the wealthy mother-in-law of Ann-Margret .
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1946: The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air, 28 June 1946, adapted by Norman Corwin, with Orson Welles and Alice Frost [28] 1948: The Lux Radio Theatre, 14 June 1948, with Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery [25] [29] 1949: NBC University Theatre [30] 1994: Jane Eyre, British radio, January 1994, with Ciarán Hinds [31]