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Rest and Be Thankful

Hallmark Playhouse · April 5, 1951 · 29 min · 3,429 words

The transcript of “Rest and Be Thankful”, an episode of Hallmark Playhouse first broadcast April 5, 1951. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Hallmark Playhouse plays Hallmark Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Women of very best. The makers of Hallmark Bringing Cards bring your Dorothy Maguire. In Helen MacInnes' rest and be thankful. On the Hallmark Playhouse, Mark brings you Hollywood's greatest stars in our standing stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors.

The distinguished novelist, Mr. James Jones. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is James Hilton. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse, we present a dramatization of a story as Winston as its title, a story called Rest and Be Fangled by Helen McGinnis.

I suppose there isn't one of us who at some time or other hasn't dreamed of a place where he might find refuge from the cares of the world. Some haven't a piece where one might live simply yet richly.

For what? But the heroine of our story tonight actually found it in Wyoming. And if you've ever been to Wyoming, you won't be surprised. To play a delightful part, we have chosen a delightful actress, Dorothy McGuire.

And now a word about Hallmark Cards, from Frank Goss, before we begin the first act of rest and be thankful. May we remind you once again that for every occasion, important to your friends and loved ones, there are Hallmark Cards to carry your thoughts across the miles, across the years, or merely across the way.

A Hallmark Card, the way you want to say it, who cared enough to send the... Now Hallmark Playhouse presenting Hellamickinuses rest and be painful, starring Dorothy McPantley, by that lovely island in a distant sea where all will be peace and gentleness.

Perhaps it's around the next turn of the road. If we search for it, perhaps it's right here in America. Let's follow two women traveling across the United States in a shiny aristocratic foreign automobile. Their eyes are on the road, and they hardly glance at the painted mountains around them.

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