Lux Radio Theater 87 It Happened One Night
The Lux Radio Theatre. March 19, 1939. CBS net. "It Happened One Night". Sponsored by: Lux Soap. A rehearsal recording. The famous Depression-era comedy about the reporter and the heiress on a cross country bus. There are no audience or sound effects, but the music cues and commercials are heard. The recording ends during a discussion between DeMille and Gable about who has the next line. See cat. #16461 for a recording of the actual broadcast. Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable, Cecil B. DeMille, Chester Clute (doubles), Eddie Waller, Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), John Gibson, Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Marion Aye, Roscoe Karns, Walter Connolly, Walter Tetley, Robert Riskin (screenwriter), Samuel Hopkins Adams (author), Harold Burnham (intermission guest), Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman), Marilyn Stuart (commercial spokesman), Elia Braca (commercial spokesman), Miami Campbell (commercial spokesman), George Wells (adaptor), Frank Woodruff (director), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).