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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.
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 ...
Lux Radio Theatre – Ep 435 Coney Island (April 17, 1944) Burns and Allen – special guest star (January 15, 1945) Lux Radio Theatre – Ep 473 "Disputed Passage" (March 5, 1945) Jack Benny Program – "Murder Mystery" (March 25, 1945) Lux Radio Theatre – Ep 484 "And Now Tomorrow" (May 21, 1945) The Dinah Shore Show – Guest star (May 31 ...
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 ...
Penny Serenade was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the November 16, 1941, broadcast of The Screen Guild Theater, starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in their original roles. [10] It was also presented as an hour-long drama on Lux Radio Theater , first on April 27, 1942, with Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck , [ 11 ] and then on May 8 ...
Craig's Wife at the Internet Broadway Database "Craig's Wife" (1936) on Lux Radio Theatre, with Rosalind Russell and Herbert Marshall (youtube.com) "Craig's Wife" (March 10, 1940) on The Campbell Playhouse, with Orson Welles and Ann Harding (Internet Archive) 1952 Best Plays radio adaptation at Internet Archive
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The Petrified Forest was performed in a one-hour radio adaptation on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre on November 22, 1937, with Herbert Marshall, Margaret Sullavan, and Donald Meek in the principal roles; [5] [6] and again on Lux Radio on April 23, 1945, with Ronald Colman, Susan Hayward, and Lawrence Tierney. [7] [8] [9]