Luigi Vasco, a recent immigrant in Chicago, saves up to buy his own car after promising his mother in Italy he would write about his American adventures. Attending night school, he learns about silent letters and then goes to a dealer on Dearborn Street, where he pays $100 for an old car. Luigi sets about fixing it up and studying the traffic rules for his driver's test, while friends offer their advice and insurance questions loom. The series is Life with Luigi, created by Sigh Howard and starring J. Kellam with Alan Reed, first broadcast on March 20, 1949.
Characters: Luigi Vasco, Louis, Mr. Basso, Mr. Schultz, Mr. Howard, Mr. Rosen, Mr. Olsen, Mama Vasco
The transcript of “Luigi's First Car”, an episode of Life with Luigi first broadcast March 20, 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. Kellamash 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 write and tell her about his adventure.
So now, let's read Luigi's letter as he writes to Mama Vasco, Ihidhoy. Mama Manir. America is the land that would a very high standard of a living. Everybody is saving the money so he can buy a refrigerator, wash your machines, dish wash your knabak, you'll clean it.
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 kind. They've got all kinds here.
Dan, the trail is the trucks, and America's a storage of the even a got a car for chickens. That's the call the coupe. A car is a wonderful thing. You remember, Mamma Mia in the older country during the war, how American boy is it taking me for driving his car? Well, it wasn't exactly a car, it wasn't something like a pometta mixer,
and he's the call of the jeep. Mamma Mia, how that car is a shake. Remember once the how we go for a ride, me and Ocopietro and he's a goat. And when we come back, I'm losing my watch.
Ocopietro is a lose his teeth. And the goat is a refuse to give a milk for three days. Since to that time, I'm all the ways who want to own my own kind. And after one year, I'm going to have $100.
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But what about a road? The bus to Luigi? The bus to buy a bus. The event is in America. Life is released here to sign Howard. Production is written by Mackmann, often Blue Diamonds, and directed by Mackmann.
Jay Carol Nash is starred as Luigi Vasco, with Alan Reed as the poet. Montre Henry the Shultz and Mary Ship as Miss Paul. Music is under the direction of Lynn Mer. Bob Bebe speaking. This is CBS, the Columbia Broad casting host.
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