Luigi Bosco, a recent immigrant from Italy, runs an antique shop that is failing, and his landlord Pasquale pressures him over unpaid rent. Pasquale tries to sell him on the idea of finding a job, and Luigi is told he must learn salesmanship. Life with Luigi is a comedy series that follows his efforts to succeed in America. In this episode, Luigi writes to his mother about his struggles, attends a night school economics class, and is pushed toward selling vacuum cleaners. He sets out to prove he can be a salesman, with Pasquale and his friends offering advice along the way.
Characters: Luigi Bosco, Pasquale, Miss Spaulding, Mr. Schultz, Mr. Basko, Mr. Haraway, Rosa, Clyde Binder
The transcript of “Super Salesman”, an episode of Life with Luigi first broadcast May 15, 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 was Luigi, a new comedy show created by Sigh Howard and starring that celebrated actor Mr. J. Carol Nash with Alan Lee Daz for Solly. 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 in it. Dear Mamma Mia, in your last letter, you asked why I know that anymore about to my antique business. Well, tell it a truth, the business is a slowdown. It's a worse than a slowdown. It's a stop. Maybe the reason my little story is no good.
Is it because in this country everybody is a big departmentist? I'm a think even if you want to buy a little story you got to go to a bigger departmentist. They got a a refrigerator, the piano, the suits, the food, the toys, everything. And I'm even here that the one a famous American, a Jack Cabenie, he's a guy who's a wife of the Meg company.
Anyway, Mamma Mia, after more than a one year and a my store, I'm a soul, the most of my anatics, but I'm a got to no money to buy no anatics. Only an antique I'm a got to left is my polar Riviera silver plate. It's really beautiful. You know who polar Riviera was. He was the famous American jockey. This is a great repatriate. He's a runner-on and
is a horse, a holler, and the British are coming. Wonderful by land, the two with a by sea. Momma mia. Imagine how weak this country was. Paul Riviere should make a such a fuss about the one or two British soldiers.
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Is it a harp? Yes, old antique. Hundreds of years ago, a sick musician's a wife, a soldier, for $40. I'm lucky to get it, you know. Well, goodbye, Momma Bosco. I'm proud to say I'm a friend of that little pumpkin ahead of you loving the son of Luigi Bosco the little immigrant.
I said Luigi is a Cy Howard production and is written by Mac Benoff and Lou German and directed by Mac Benoff. Jay Carol Masha starred as Luigi Bosco with Alan Reed as the Swally, Hans-Con Reed as Schultz, and Mary Ship as Mint Balding.
Music is under direction of Lynn Murray. Life with Luigi will be heard again two weeks from tonight at the same time. Next week, this half hour will be included in the time devoted to the CBS documentary unit's latest production, The People's Choice, starring Ralph Bellamy.
Now appearing as the star in Sidney King's latest hit on Broadway, Mr. Bellamy will come to CBS to play a freshman congressman whose career might be that of any of your Washington representative. CBS, cordially invite you to hear The People's Choice, Starring Ralph Bellamy at the same time next Sunday over most of the same CBS Network Station.
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