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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 ...
The Lux Video Theatre was a spin-off from the successful Lux Radio Theater series broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–1935) and CBS (1935–1955).. Lux Video Theatre began as a live 30-minute Monday evening CBS series on October 2, 1950, switching to Thursday nights during August, 1951. [1]
My Man Godfrey is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive; on YouTube; Streaming audio. My Man Godfrey on Lux Radio Theater: May 9, 1938; My Man Godfrey on Academy Award Theater: October 2, 1946; My Man Godfrey on Theater of Romance: July 11, 1944; My Man Godfrey on Theater of Romance: July 21, 1947
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.
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]
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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]