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FOB America
Hallmark Playhouse · April 19, 1951 · 29 min · 4,072 words
The transcript of “FOB America”, an episode of Hallmark Playhouse first broadcast April 19, 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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Remember a hallmark card when you will carry enough to send the very Bellamy part which is FOB America on the hallmark playoff brings you Hollywood's greatest power in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton. Tonight on our hallmark playhouse we present FOB America based on a story by Bellamy Partridge. I suppose this title will remind most people of the familiar phrase FOB Detroit.
And the story is indeed about the beginnings of the automobile age. The days when the horse and buggy were just beginning to give place to the new rubber-tired contraption, which, more perhaps than any other single invention of our time, changed the face of America, changed our customs, our habits, and our ways of happiness.
Not all believed in the automobile at first, and those who did were pioneers of a special kind. Our story is about them, and I think you will find it a charming and gay piece of Americanism.
To start in it, we are fortunate to have that fine young actor Robert Cummings. And now we're worried about hallmark cards from Frank Goss before we begin the first act of F.O.B. America. When you're looking for a way to say something to someone you care for, look for a hallmark card and you'll find the right words.
Because hallmark cards are designed to say what you want to say, the way you want to say it, and in the good taste you demand of anything that bears your personal signature. That's why Hallmark on the back of a greeting card has come to mean you cared enough to send the very best.
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