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Magnificent Obsession
Encore Theater Single · June 4, 1946 · 29 min · 4,408 words
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The Shenley Laboratories producers of penicillin Shenley present the encore theatre. The encore theatre play tonight magnificent obsession. Our star is Cornell Wann. Shenley Laboratories present the first in a new series of great dramatic programs.
Some of our stories of fact, the struggles and accomplishments of great men of medicine, others are fiction, stories of devotion to an ideal, individual heroism or great courage. By these programs, generally laboratories would remind you that medical science and progress is not cold in personal research or pages of statistics, but a warm human story told in living terms.
Whether it's the life of one of medicines in mortals or the simple everyday record of service blended by your family physician. How the Encore Theatre presents magnificent obsession starring Cornell Wilde as Dr. Robert Merrick and Lorraine Tuttle as Helen Hudson.
To me Dr. Wayne Hudson had always been a legend even back in those days when my life was dedicated to pleasure and very little else. He was one of the world's great surgeons and one of the world's great men.
He never met, and yet his life ended because of me, and my life began because of him. That was many years ago, but I can still recall that dark morning when I came to, in Dr. Hudson's Brightwood Hospital, with a spitting headache and no idea at all what I was doing there.
I heard voices outside my door, and I lay there in a cold sweat listening. How did it happen, Dr. Ramsey? Dr. Hudson had gone for a swim to freshen up. He was very tired. His heart was over-texted.
We could have saved him with a pool motor, but it wasn't there. Where was it? On the far side of the lake. Young Bobby Merrick and some of his friends at stage a night's poker party. Early this morning Merrick decided to take them all for a sale on his boat. He was knocked out and overboard by a swinging
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