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Betty is Stage-Struck

Father Knows Best · June 19, 1952 · 29 min · 3,996 words

The transcript of “Betty is Stage-Struck”, an episode of Father Knows Best first broadcast June 19, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Father Knows Best plays Father Knows Best free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Now listen to Father Knows Best transcribes starring Robert Young as Father, Kim the Springfield, and another half-hour visit with the folks in the White Frame House on Maple Street. Sit back and enjoy life with the Andesans, Kathy, Bud, Becky, Margaret and Jim, as the head of this typical American household once again sets out to prove that Father Knows Best.

All the world's a stage claimed the bar de vin and all the men and women merely players. However, at this moment in the White Frame House on Maple Street, there is one person who feels that she is probably the worst player who ever stepped on any stage.

This attitude on the part of Betty Anderson is a direct result of her performance in a college play last night, a performance which she feels hit an all-time theatrical low. Her absence from the breakfast table is the chief subject of conversation among the other members of the Anderson family. Like this.

Well if Betty doesn't get done to breakfast pretty soon she'll be laid for school. I can't get her to come down. She says she's never going to school ever again. So she can't face anybody.

Oh for goodness sake. Her performance wasn't that bad. I didn't think it was bad at all. In fact I thought she was rather good. How was she doing when she kept fumbling around with that back curtain?

She was trying to find her way off the stage and couldn't. It looked like she was hunting for moths. Or beating a rug. Well, I think it was mean of the audience to laugh. I hope this acting thing doesn't leave a mark on Betty.

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