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Gold Diggers

Lux Radio Theatre · December 21, 1936 · 45 min · 7,708 words

The transcript of “Gold Diggers”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast December 21, 1936. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Lux Radio Theatre plays Lux Radio Theatre free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Hollywood California Monday December 21st. The Lux Radio Theatre presents Joan Glendale and Dick Powell. In the radio version of Warner Brothers Picture, Gold Diggers. Lux presents Hollywood, our stars Joan Glendale and Dick Powell. Our guests, Mr. Jack Warner, Production Head of Warner Brothers Studios, and Ted Atmore Gold Prospector.

Our producer Cecil B. DeMille, our conductor, Lois Silvers. To you who crowd our theatre tonight, and to you millions of listeners the nation over, the makers of Lux Blake's bid you all a hearty welcome.

Lux Blake's have taught hundreds of thousands of women the secret of dressing smartly with economy. These gentle, effective flakes keep silks, woolens, rayons, fine cuttings and linens, looking like you so much longer. on with the show. Our producer, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. It has long been a question in the theatre whether an actor's higher start is the product of great technique or deep emotion. Joan Blondell and Dick Powell recently revealed which school they prefer. After completing the sixth picture in which they have been co-starred, they took their screen romancing seriously and decided

to play opposite each other for the rest of their lives. Tonight our Christmas gift to you is the presentation of these two stars in their first performance together since becoming Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ewing Powell.

Joan, daughter of Eddie Blondell of Orteville fame, has been acting since the age of four months. But in spite of a theatrical heritage, she has fought harder for success than most Hollywood stars. She's been a sales girl, a librarian, and once when stranded and penniless in China, washed dishes to earn enough money to rejoin her theatrical troupe.

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