Drama X Theater

Screen Directors Playhouse | Mr. & Mrs. Smith | This episode aired, Sunday, January 30, 1949. Starring: Robert Montgomery, Mary Jane Croft, Verna Felton Based on the movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock which also starred Robert Montgomery. Although Mr. & Mrs. Smith was the only pure comedy Hitchcock made in America, he later claimed that he agreed to do it only as a favor to Lomba...

Radio City Playhouse | Radio City Playhouse | This episode aired, August 8, 1948. Abby Lewis stars in an intense drama about a woman who is tormented by doubt and jealousy and a letter she wishes she had never sent. : : : : : 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.p...

Lux Radio Theatre | The Vagabond King | This episode aired, Monday, August 17th, 1936. Based on the 1930 movie of the same name. That movie was based on the 1925 operetta movie, again of the same name. Starring: John Boles, Evelyn Venable Plot: Taking place in France in the Middle Ages. King Louis XI, hoping to enlist the French peasants in his upcoming battle against the Burgundians, appoint...

Matinee Theater | Penny Serenade | This episode aired, Sunday, November 12, 1944. Starring: Victor Jory, Gertrude Warner : : : : : 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 S...

Hollywood Star Playhouse | Of Night and the River | This episode aired, Monday, October 09, 1950. Sponsored by: Bromo Seltzer. Story: A gangster being fitted with concrete overshoes trying to escape his fate at the hands of the rest of the gang. : : : : : 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...

The Screen Guild Theater | episode 10, Tailored by Toni | This episode aired, Sunday, March 12th, 1939. Starring; Jimmy Stewart, Carole Lombard : : : : : 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 channe...

Academy Award Theater | The Great McGinty . This episode aired, Saturday, April 20, 1946. Starring: Brian Donlevy. Plot: A racketeer who became the governor and then decided to go straight. Brian Donlevy plays the same lead role, Dan McGinty as he played in the 1940 Paramount Pictures film for which director Preston Sturges won the 1940 Academy Award. : : : : : You can donate to show your support...

The Lux Radio Theatre | Chained . This episode aired, July 27, 1936. Starring: Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone The story is based on the 1934 MGM film. Plot: Diane Lovering is the indispensable secretary of a middle-aged, but attractive steamship magnet called Richard Fields. He is deeply in love with her, but is already married. His wife has now found out that he is having an affair. She has re...

Lux Radio Theater | It's A Wonderful Life . This episode aired, Monday, March 10, 1947. Let's enjoy the classic Christmas story that originally wasn't a Christmas story. Featuring: Frank Capra, James "Jimmy" Stewart, Donna Reed, Victor Moore, Ann Carter, Cliff Clark, Edwin Maxwell, Franklyn Parker, Donna Reed, Janet Scott : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my podcast and the time I...

Radio City Playhouse | ' Twas The Night Before Christmas , written by Paul Gallico. This episode aired, Sunday, December 25, 1949. Story: New York newspaper reporter and a photographer sent on a Christmas Eve wild goose chase by their publisher's wife for two goats harnessed to a little red wagon, which she intends to give her nephews for Christmas. During a night-long search fueled by a few drink...

Screen Director’s Playhouse | Miracle On 34th Street , starring: Edmund Gwenn, Gail Bonney, William Conrad. This episode aired, Thursday, December 21, 1950. Enjoy the classic Christmas story of Miracle On 34th Street. : : : : : 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...

Lux Radio Theater | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs . This episode aired, December 26, 1938. This program is reported to be the first Lux broadcast from Hollywood that had no studio audience. Recorded applause and audience sounds were used. Featuring: Thelma Hubbard (Snow White); Roy Atwell (Doc); Robert Stevens (singing voice of the Prince); Stuart Buchanan; Louise Burnett (doubles); Eddie Davis...

This is week is yet another adaptation of the play and move, Ah, Wilderness , featured on Theater Guild on The Air . This episode aired, October 7, 1945. Featuring: Walter Huston, Jackie Kelp, Eugene O'Neill, Jr. (writer) NOTE: If Interested -- April 4, 2022, I posted an episode from The Ford Theater and their adaption of, Ah, Wilderness (1947). : : : : : You can donate to show your support for my...

Mr. and Mrs. Smith is this romantic-comedy from the Matinee Theater . This episode aired, November 26, 1944. Starring: Victor Jory | Sponsored by Vick's Vapor Rub : : : : : 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 o...

Hollywood Star Playhouse with Hollywood legend, Joan Crawford starring in the radio drama, Statement in Full . Tagline: "If you could get away with murder, would you?" Featuring: Joan Crawford, Dick Haymes, John McIntire, Paul McVey, Herbert Rawlinson, Maurice Zim (writer) Hollywood Star Playhouse began as a lunchtime extended advertisement for RKO Pictures, broadcast from the studio's lunchroom....

Lux Radio Theatre | The Show Off, based on the Broadway play by George Kelly, the original story written by Herman J. Mankiewicz. This episode aired December 9, 1935. Featuring: Harold Peary (better known as The Great Gildersleeve), Una Merkel, Beulah Bondi : : : : : 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...

Columbia Workshop | Experiment and Highway Incident . Directed by Irving Reis. This episode aired, August 8, 1936. Columbia Workshop aired on the CBS Radio from 1936 to 1943, returning in 1946–47. The Columbia Workshop gave authors, directors, sound engineers and composers many opportunities to experiment with the use of sound as a device for enhancing narrative. : : : : : You...

Academy Award Theater with their adaptation of the Academy Award winning film, Stagecoach . This episode aired, May 4, 1946. Starring: Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor This is a shortened version of the famous John Wayne movie from 1939. : : : : : 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 acc...

Radio City Playhouse is this weeks drama, with comedy, Fanny . This episode aired, August 21, 1948. Plot: Story of an senior eccentric and bored multi-millionaire, Fanny. : : : : : 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=MSL7S8FKCS...

Theater Guild on The Air | Sing Out, Sweet Land - originally written by Walter Kerr (b. July 8, 1913 - d. October 9, 1996). This episode aired, October 21, 1945. Performers: Burl Ives, Arthur Godfrey, Josh White, Bibi Osterwald , George Hicks : : : : : 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 Pa...

Let's begin the new month with another drama from Lux Radio Theatre , The Barker . This episode aired July 20, 1936. Credits: Claudette Colbert, Walter Huston This is the third adaption of The Barker. Originally started as a e Broadway play, that opened at the Biltmore Theatre January 18, 1927. Second adaption was a part-silent, part-talkie pre-Code film in 1928. Plot: A woman who comes betwe...

The Screen Guild Theater produced this episode titled, Three Days March . This episode aired February 12, 1939. Credits: Olivia de Havilland, Spencer Tracy, Akim Tamiroff, Clarence Derwent Plot: A newsreel photographer and a lady spy are thrown together in the African desert during the war. The series aired on CBS radio, NBC radio and ABC radio between January 8, 1939, to March 13, 1952. : : : : :...

The Ford Theater presents this weeks drama of, The Man Who Played God . This is a Christmas drama, so we're getting an early start to the season. This episode aired December 21, 1947. Credits: Kenneth Banghart (announcer), Warren Brian, Claudia Clayton (adaptor), George Faulkner (writer), Jules Eckerd, Goodman (author), Mitzie Gould, Edwin Jerome, Gene Leonard, Helen Lewis, Howard Lindsay (host),...

Sugar in the Vinegar is this weeks comedy from Skippy Hollywood Theatre . Featuring famed actress, Jane Darwell  (b. October 15, 1879 – d. August 13, 1967). This episode aired April 25, 1947. Jane Darwell is probably most famous for starring in the films: The Grapes of Wrath and The Ox-Bow Incident, among many others. Skippy Hollywood Theatre aired from 1941-1949. : : : : : You can donate to...

Lux Radio Theatre presents a recreation of, The Brat , starring Marion Davies and Joel McCrea. This episode aired July 13, 1936. The film version was released: September 20, 1931. Plot: A novelist brings a wild chorus girl home, hoping to study her for inspiration for his new novel. His snobby upper-class family is upset by her presence, but soon she has changed their lives forever....