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Family Theater: Old Friends

Family Theater · January 26, 1955 · 29 min · 4,743 words

The transcript of “Old Friends”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast January 26, 1955. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Family Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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presents Ruth Hussey and Frank Lovejoy. From Hollywood, the Mutual Network in cooperation with Family Theater presents Old Friends, starring Frank Lovejoy. And now here is your hostess, Ruth Hussey. Thank you, Tony Lefrano. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everyone's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives.

If we are to win peace for ourselves, peace for our families and Peace for the World. Family Theater urges you to pray. Pray together as a family. And now to our transcribed drama, Old Friends starring Frank Lovejoy as Bob.

The only way you'll ever be able to see my point of view on this is by knowing what I was up against. You can kick around show business for a long time and get absolutely nowhere.

In New York you can go sit and call this and stretch a cup of coffee for over hour or stand around the bar and one of those spaghetti joints near Schubert's alley, nursing a warm beer, hoping you'll meet some big operator. And you can do the same thing in Chicago or Hollywood. I wish I had half the money I've spent in spots like that buying lunch for the

wrong people. The point is that the jobs in show business, they don't run ads in the classified section of your local newspaper. You've got to go out and look for them. Well, I know this and Kenny knew it. That's Kenny Lewis. He was the one who taught me eight years ago.

So now I've got a little house in Glendale and I drive to work at the studio and afford convertible and things are looking up. And then one night a few months ago the phone rings and Patty answers it and I get on the wire for a while and... Oh brother.

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