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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]
An Australian Lux Radio Theatre was broadcast on the Major Broadcasting Network during the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. It was heard nationwide at 8.00 pm on a Sunday evening. Many U.S. theatrical, movie, television and radio personalities made the long flight to Australia, simply to appear on the Australian version of Lux Radio Theatre. [8]
Academy Award Theatre was a 1946 radio anthology series featuring adaptations of film scripts. [119] Kraft Music Hall was a radio musical variety show on NBC radio from 1933 to 1949. [ 120 ] The Bold Venture half-hour radio series ran for 78 episodes during 1951–1952, and was developed by Bogart's Santana Productions, as a starring vehicle ...
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 .
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 ...
Merton of the Movies, a June 20, 1949 Lux Radio Theatre one-hour radio play, starring Mickey Rooney and Arlene Dahl [8] Merton of the Movies , a 1977 musical by Gary William Friedman (composer), Robert Lorick (lyrics), and Mel Shapiro and Sam Bobrick (book), [ 9 ] which never made Broadway but was produced in 1985 at Carnegie Mellon University .
Ride a Cock Horse is an original 1948 Australian radio play by Sumner Locke Elliott. It aired as an episode of Lux Radio Theatre and was one of the last plays Elliott wrote in Australia before leaving for the USA. [1] [2] The cast included Lloyd Berrell and Thelma Scott.
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