Luigi Vasco, newly arrived in Chicago from Italy, is determined to own a car of his own. He attends night school, where his teacher and classmates offer advice on buying one, and he soon purchases a rundown automobile for one hundred dollars. His friend Pasquale, who has his own ideas about marriage and insurance, tries to help him get ready. The story of Luigi's efforts to make the car roadworthy and pass his driver's test is told through his letters to his mother. The series Life with Luigi aired on 1949-02-27 and stars J. Carroll Naish as Luigi with Alan Reed as Pasquale.
Characters: Luigi Vasco, Pasquale, Mr. Basko, Mr. Olson, Mr. Schulz, Lou, Rosa, Carl
The transcript of “Luigi Needs a Driver's License”, an episode of Life with Luigi first broadcast February 27, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.
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We invite you to enjoy life, life with Luigi, a new comedy show created by Sigh Howard, and starring that celebrated actor, Mr. J. Caron Ash with Alan Reid as a spy. A year ago, when Luigi Vasco left Italy to start his new life in America, he promised his mother that he would drive and tell her about his adventure.
So now, let's read Luigi's letter as he writes to Momma Vasco, it is only. Here, Momma Nia. America is the land that would a very high standard of a living. Everybody is saving some money so you can buy a refrigerator, a washing machine, a dishwasher, and a vacuum cleaner.
Seems like everybody here has got these things. People who can afford, they buy. People who can afford, they go on a quiz program. Another big American thing. Everybody has got a car. They got all kinds of here.
There's a sedans, a trailers, a truck, and the Americans are so rich that they even got a car for chicken. That's called the coop. A car is a wonderful thing. You remember, Mamma Me and the older country during the war, how American boys are taking me for driving as a car?
Well, if there wasn't exactly a car, it was something like a Samantha mixer, and he's the call of the jeep. Mom, let me know how that car is a shake. Remember once how we go for a ride, me, you know, Capitro and he's a goat.
And when we come back, I'm losing my watch. And I'm going to be a goat who loses a teat. And the goat is a refuse to give a milk for three days. Since that time, I'm always the one to own my own car.
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Hans Connery the Shultz and Mary Ship as Ms. Saldin. Music is under the direction of Lynn Murray. Bob Stevens speaking. This is CVS, the Columbia Broadcasting Center.
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