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Family Theater: The Story of Danny Dollar Bill

Family Theater · November 7, 1951 · 28 min · 4,559 words

The transcript of “The Story of Danny Dollar Bill”, an episode of Family Theater first broadcast November 7, 1951. 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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Family Theater presents Susan Hayward and Sterling Holloway. From Hollywood, the mutual network in cooperation with Family Theater presents the story of Danny Dollar Bill, starring Sterling Holloway. To introduce the drama, here is your hostess, Susan Hayward.

Thank you, Colonel O'Fahrenheit. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Family Theater's only purpose is to bring to everybody's attention a practice that must become an important part of our lives If we're 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.

Tonight, Family Theater takes great pleasure in presenting the story of Danny Dollar Bill, starring Sterling Holloway as the narrator. This is the story of a dollar bill named Danny. Danny wasn't exactly born, he was printed, putch amounts to the same thing in the life of a dollar bill.

Along with countless other dollar bills, Danny was put through huge machines which stamped him all over with numbers and official seals and all it goes to make the well-dressed dollar bill. Finally he was put through a big machine that stamped a lovely picture of George Washington on one side of him.

Danny didn't mind all this printing rigmarole and in fact it was kind of fun. When he went through the machine that stamped the picture on it, it tickled and Danny wriggled. Well, finally Danny went sliding out a chute and landed on a long flat table.

Cautiously Danny lifted one of his crisp edges and glanced about. On on a joining table, he saw a whole pile of new five dollar bills and being of a very friendly disposition, Danny yelled out to one of the fires.

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