Luigi Vasco, newly arrived in America, writes a letter to his mother in Italy about the Thanksgiving holiday. At school, his teacher Miss Spalding quizzes the class on the Pilgrims, and classmates talk about their plans for the holiday. Luigi hopes his employer Pasquale will invite him to dinner, but first he must navigate several invitations and a difficult offer from Pasquale. Chicago's neighborhoods and the friendly rivalry among classmates set the tone. The series Life with Luigi, first broadcast on November 22, 1949, stars J. Carrol Naish as Luigi with Alan Reed.
Characters: Luigi Vasco, Miss Spalding, Pasquale, Rosa, Mr. Schultz, Mr. Olsen, Mr. Horowitz, Danny
The transcript of “Thanksgiving Celebration”, an episode of Life with Luigi first broadcast November 22, 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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He dated by Thighard and starring that celebrated actor Mr. J. Carol Bass with Alan Reed as well. He's 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. Come with me. Christ and I, everybody in this country, is a celebrate in the thanks-giving. This is a holiday, raised American and I.
And I'll put you. Remember me, I'm always sure could have been here now. To see how everybody is so friendly and nice and happy. When you walk down the street now, everybody's got a big smile on their face.
Except maybe if you're turkeys. The reason the day isn't happy is because thanks again is to celebrate the landing of the pilgrims. When the pilgrims is first coming here, there was a look for something to eat this.
So they shot the wild, the turkeys. Of course, most of the housewives wish you the pilgrims or would have a shot of pork chops. Because that's the 30 cents a pound of cheaper. But so far, I'm gonna get the no plans for my thanks forgiven.
But I'm a sureter, my friend, the Pascale. He's gonna invite me to his spaghetti palace for private dinner tomorrow night. After all, no matter how mean the Pascale is to act this summer time. Underneath he's got a heart. There's a big as is a daughter.
Well, I finish this later later because it's a time I should have gone out to my night to school at class. I'm a wish you could see my beautiful teacher miss boiling. She's got a blonde hair, blue eyes.
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It's harder for me to tell you exactly how I'm going to celebrate the Thanksgiving. Was it good, then a bad, happy, and a sad? But I want to think I'm assuredly surely. I'm going to finally celebrate the Thanksgiving like a really American.
Hold it in my stomach. Do you love any of the sun? No, I don't know. I just Luigi is a sign-hour production and is written by Mack Vanoff and Lou Dermann and directed by Mack Vanoff.
Jay Caromash has starred as Luigi Vasco with Alan Douglas the S'Polly, Pumps Comrade is short, Mary Ship is misfolding, Jody Gilford is Rosa, Joe Forte as Horowitz, and Ken Peters is also. Music is under the direction of Vlad Guskin, Bob Stevenson speaking.
Be sure to listen next to you at the same time when Luigi has as a special guest, Metro Golden Mayor's new singing sensation, The star of that midnight kiss, Mario Land. They do now for escape.
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