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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]
Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).
Ford Theater is an American dramatic anthology radio program that was broadcast on NBC October 5, 1947 - June 27, 1948, and on CBS October 8, 1948 - July 1, 1949. [1] The name was sometimes written as Ford Theatre .
The Lux Radio Theatre was an anthology series featuring adaptations of Broadway plays and film scripts. It aired on the National Broadcasting Company 's Blue Network (the forerunner of the American Broadcasting Company ) (1934–35); [ 117 ] CBS Radio network (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55).
On August 3, 1936, Stanwyck made the first of her 16 appearances on LUX Radio Theatre, hosted by director-producer Cecil B. DeMille. Her final performance with the radio series was in 1943. [ 13 ] She had a decades-long social relationship with actress and comedian Mary Livingstone and her husband Jack Benny , appearing on his radio show ...
Abe Lincoln in Illinois was dramatized as an hour-long radio play on a broadcast of Lux Radio Theater on April 22, 1940, again starring Raymond Massey as Lincoln. It also was adapted in a broadcast from the Ford Theatre on February 8, 1948.
This summer series had a significantly smaller budget than its parent show, with each episode budgeted at $4250 [1] (by contrast, when Lux Radio Theatre aired its first show from Hollywood in 1936 that show's budget was a reported $17,000). [2] Because of the budget constraints, only a single major star headed-up each episode of the summer series.
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