Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Academy Award Theater "Lost Angel" (12-18-46)
Stars and movies with Oscars were the idea - in\nmost cases, the movie stars recreated their academy award roles for the show,\nor in other cases, fine actors played the parts and gave it a different\ncharacter. Both ways make for great radio drama and first class Hollywood\nmotion picture star entertainment. The Lux Radio Theater had been doing\nthis kind of radio show in the grandest manner for many years, but sponsor\nSquibb had the hubris and deep pockets to take on the competition by doing Academy\nAward Theater right after the Second World War. The year 1946 was\npre-television, and so movies were still the major American visual art form,\nwith radio the other popular network entertainment. In this final pre-TV time, Academy\nAward Theater was thought of as a premier radio production, a wow show,\nmuch like CinemaScope was to be in the 1950's when Hollywood felt the box\noffice blow of early TV.
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