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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]
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 ...
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
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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.