Drama X Theater

Screen Directors Playhouse || Magnificent Obsession | Broadcast date: Sunday, February 13, 1949 Starring: Cecil B DeMille; Irene Dunne; Barbara Eiler; John Lund; Willard Waterman; Anne Whitfield Story: A drama about a love between a ne'er-do-well turned doctor, and a blind woman, wife of the man for whose death he was responsible. The good doctor, Wayne Hudson dies by drowning in the lake beside t...

Lux Radio Theater | Alias Jimmy Valentine | Broadcast: November 9, 1936 Story: A safe-cracker trying to go straight. Pat O'Brien sings "The Charlady's Ball." Guest Melvyn Purvis ("The Greatest G-Man In History") recalls a real safe cracker he met while tracking down John Dillinger. Valentine is called into the warden's office to be told he is to be freed the next day. He promises to go straight an...

Lux Radio Theatre | The Curtain Rises | Broadcast date: October 12, 1936 Starring: Ginger Rogers, Warren William; Margaret Brayton; Claudia Hyams; Verree Teasdale; Leora Thatcher; Warren William Story: A shy woman decides to take acting lessons in order to play love scenes with her instructor. Ginger plays the part of Elsa Carling and Warren Williams is Ronald Phillips The play opens at a gay part...

Matinee Theater | Jane Eyre, ep. 7 | Broadcast date: Sunday, December 3, 1944 Starring: Victor Jory; Gertrude Warner Radio adaptation of the famous novel written by, Charlotte Brontë. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_bu...

Hollywood Star Playhouse | Statement in Full, ep. 39 | Broadcast date: January 15, 1951 Featuring: Joan Crawford; Dick Haymes; John McIntire; Paul McVey; Herbert Rawlinson : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKC...

Academy Award Theater | My Sister Eileen | Broadcast: May 18, 1946 Story: A comedy about two innocents from Ohio adrift in the wilds of Greenwich Village. An announcement is made that this story is being turned into a radio series for next fall, to star Lucille Ball. Starring: Janet Blair; Rosalind Russell NOTE: No time for an intro this week, hope you enjoy. : : : : : You can donate to show your...

Lux Radio Theater | Elmer, The Great | Broadcast date: May, 5, 1936 Featuring: Margaret Brayton; Joe E Brown; Cecil B DeMille; Charles Emerson; Lou Gehrig (guest); Carl Hubbell (guest); Helen Keers; Mia Marvin Storyline: A baseball story in Gentryville Indiana, Elmer’s brother can’t understand why he won’t sign with the New York Giants. Even Nelly, Elmer's wife says he shouldn’t pass up the opport...

Theater Guilde on The Air | (ep. 10) Emperor Jones & Where the Cross Is Made | Broadcast: Sunday, November 11, 1945 Two stories in one episode; both by famed playright Eugene O'Neill.  Sponsor: United States Steel Corporation Featuring: Boris Karloff; Canada Lee; James Monks; Margaret Phillips; Everett Sloane : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put...

The Screen Guild Theater | ep 10, Tailored by Toni | Broadcast date: Sunday, March 12, 1939 Stars: Carole Lombard, Jimmy Stewart, Spring Byington, Edward Everett Horton. A clothes designer and a playwright fall in love and marry, despite their widely differing careers. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations ar...

The Ford Theater | episode, 14, Adventures of the Bad Boy | Broadcast date: January 4, 1948 A murder mystery, deduced and solved by Ellery Queen. Featuring: Brad Barker; Harold Dryanforth; Sarah Fussell; Avril Harris; Jane Houston; Charlotte Keane; Hugh Marlowe; Santos Ortega : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donat...

Lux Radio Theatre | The Plutocrat | Broadcast date: Monday, September 28, 1936 Episode includes: Victor Young interview as he plays one of his compositions. Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse, and Donald Duck are also interviewed. Story: A comedy about a wealthy businessman from Omaha and his adventures on the high seas and in Algeria. Wallace Beery is American millionaire Earl Tinker the owner of a large...

Skippy Hollywood Theatre | episode 32, Artists Must Eat | This episode aired, Friday, May 9, 1947 : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYSTERY x SUSPENSE -- SCI FI x HOR...

Screen Directors Playhouse | Hired Wife | Broadcast date: Sunday, February 6, 1949 Starring: Rosalind Russell, Carleton Young, Ed Begley The radio series aired for 122 episodes on NBC Radio from January 9, 1949, to September 28, 1951, under several different titles: NBC Theater, Screen Directors Guild Assignment, Screen Directors Assignment and, lastly, Screen Directo...

Radio City Playhouse | Special Delivery | This episode aired: August 7, 1948 The story of a dangerous and foolish letter. + Hilda is mixed up with love and hate for Neil her husband who has betrayed her and filled her with jealously. She has just finished writing a letter to Judge James T Bradley her father-in-law to “fix her fine husband” and has sent her housekeeper Helen to mail it airmail spec...

Vick's Matinee Theater | episode 7, Jane Eyre | This episode aired, Sunday, December 3, 1944 The novel revolutionized prose fiction by being the first to focus on its protagonist's moral and spiritual development through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are colored by a psychological intensity. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast...

Lux Radio Theatre | Quality Street | Broadcast: September, 14, 1936 Starring: Brian Aherne, Ruth Chatterton Story: Set during the Napoleonic Wars : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast...

Hollywood Star Playhouse | episode 30, Exhibit A | This episode aired, Monday, November 13, 1950 Featuring: Jeff Alexander (composer, conductor); Norman Brokenshire (announcer); Mel Ferrer; Jack Johnstone (director); Herbert Rawlinson; Rosalind Russell; Maurice Zim (writer) Hollywood Star Playhouse was broadcast from April 24, 1950 to February 15, 1953, appearing on CBS, ABC and&nbs...

Columbia Workshop | ep 5, Case History | This episode aired, August 15, 1936 An experimental drama about a pilot on the brink of death, then a tour of a strange airport on the edge of the abyss. Starring: David Ross, Irving Reis, Mary Parkington, Brian J Burns : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. D...

Academy Award Theater | If I Were King | This episode aired, May 11, 1946 Cast: Ronald Colman Story: In Paris, which has long been besieged by the Burgundians, François Villon is the despair of Father Villon, the priest who took him in and raised him from the age of six. Father Villon takes François to mass after his latest escapade. There François spies a beautiful woman, Katherine DeVaucelles. E...

Lux Radio Theatre | Is Zat So? | This episode aired, Monday, September 7, 1936 Starring James Cagney, James Gleason, Boots Mallory, Robert Armstrong, Ross Forrester (commercial spokesman), and Maryon Aye Story: A screwball comedy about a Brooklyn fight manager and his stumblebum pugilist who become servants of the upper class. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the ti...

Theater Guild on the Air | (8) At Mrs Beam’s | This episode aired, October 28, 1945 Starring: Paulette Goddard; Burgess Meredith : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donations are through my duane.media PayPal account: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MSL7S8FKCSL94 My other podcast channels include: MYS...

The Screen Guild Theater | (9) Bridge of Mercy | This episode aired, March 5, 1939 Story: A most unusual radio drama dealing with euthanasia. Starring: Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Lionel Atwill, Luis Alberni, Harry Bradley, Wheaton Chambers, John Miljan, Russell Gleason : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I put into creating and posting every week. Donati...

Ford Theater | episode 13, Father, Dear Father | This episode aired, December28, 1947 Sponsored by: Ford Motor Company Featuring: Howard Lindsay (host), Edwin Jerome, Fran Carlon, Kenneth Banghart (commercial spokesman), Therese Lewis (writer), Irving Pinkus (writer), Howard Teichman (editor), George Faulkner (continuity), Lyn Murray (composer, conductor), George Zachery (director) : : : : : You c...

Lux Radio Theatre | Cheating Cheaters | This episode aired, Monday, August 31st, 1936. Starring: George Raft, June Lang Cheating Cheaters was a 1916 Broadway play written by Max Marcin. The play is a melodramatic farce about two groups of jewel thieves who are each posing as a wealthy family in order to rob the other. : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast...

Skippy Hollywood Theatre 1947-05-02 (31) Three on a Honeymoon