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Shadow Of A Doubt

Academy Award Theater · September 11, 1946 · 29 min · 4,292 words

The transcript of “Shadow Of A Doubt”, an episode of Academy Award Theater first broadcast September 11, 1946. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Academy Award Theater plays Academy Award Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The House and Squib presents Academy of War. Every week, Squib brings you Hollywood's finest. The great picture plays, the great actors and actresses. Techniques and skills chosen from the honor roll of those who have won or been nominated for.

The famous golden Oscar of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science. And now, ER Squib and Sons manufacturing chemist with a medical profession since 1858. bring you the distinguished actor, Joseph Cotton, starring in Shadow of a Doubt with June Vincent.

Mr. Cotton will play the famous role he created on the screen for Shadow of a Doubt, the picture which has best original story of the year was nominated for the 1943 Academy Award. This is the story of a weary traveler who had journeyed far, peered into the dark corners of life, and with the breath of phantoms on his neck,

shook off pursuit for a few days and sought refuge in the only light-filled bit of the world he had saved to hide in. The placid home of his next of kin. Here at least he can relax.

For here he is of the nobility, salt of the earth. The proverbial wealthy and mysterious Uncle Charlie. It wasn't the biggest yacht in the world, but it had a nice little fireplace in the library and the bar was paneled in bleach mahogany.

You pressed the button and... What am I talking about? All that's over. Let's talk about you, my beautiful niece and namesake, Charlie. That's a pretty stress I ever saw. I think so too, Uncle Charlie. Charles, don't you remember?

Remember? Remember what? Well, Uncle Charlie, you sent it to me. I did? I did? Don't you remember? Of course I've grown. I had to sort of fix it. I'll say I've been forgetting something all this time.

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