Jeffrey Sherwood, a wealthy New York lawyer, abandons his society wedding plans, and his old friends find him drunk and wandering the city. Miriam Brady, a working girl from 10th Avenue, takes charge of him after he impulsively marries her. The Lux Radio Theatre's 1938 production, broadcast on May 16, 1938, stars Loretta Young and George Brent. Jeffrey and Miriam agree to an arrangement, and the two begin living together in a modest apartment while Jeffrey tries to recover from his disappointment. The story follows the uneasy bond that forms between them as their lives grow entwined.
Characters: Jeffrey Sherwood, Miriam Brady, Valentin French, John Marlin, Hugh Williams, Tony, Mrs. Martin
The transcript of “The Girl from Tenth Avenue”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast May 16, 1938. 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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From Hollywood, California, the Lux Radio Theater presents Loretta Young and George Brent in The Girl from 10th Avenue. Lux presents Hollywood. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Lux Radio Theater. The theater made possible by your loyal purchases of those fine products, lux, toilets, soap, and lux flakes.
Tonight, Loretta Young and George Brent bring you a play of strange romance, a drama of crashing environments. The love story of a girl who lived on the wrong side of the tracks, and of a man whose wealth and social position stood between them.
As special guests, our program also features Mrs. Emily Post, the most famous authority in the world on etiquette. Lower Silvers conduct our orchestra. And now, your host, the producer of the Lux Radio Theatre. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille.
Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Three years ago when I made the Crusades, Loretta Young was starred as Baron Garrier, not the ocean liner, but Baron Garrier wife of Richard the Lionheart, the only Queen of England who never set foot on angry soil.
When the day to start the film arrived, there was no Miss Young. Maroon by a blizzard on the 14,000 foot heights of Mount Rainier, where she was making the call of the wild, her Hollywood arrival was delayed for weeks.
I had hundreds of players on salary, so was forced to proceed without her and made the giant battle scenes. When Loretta finally arrived, I started back at the beginning of the picture, but unfortunately for me the warfare had been so realistic that nearly all the players' costumes were ruined, so tattered and torn that not even luck's flakes could restore them.
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George left the University of Dublin to join the famous Abbey players. Since then he's been a diamond miner, a stoker, a sheepherder, a blacksmith, and an actor on Broadway, with another youngster then destined for stardom, Clark Gable.
Now a Warner Brothers star, Mr. Brent has reached new heights. In his two latest film, Gold is where you find it and Jezebel. We featured in our cast tonight, our Bula Bande, one of the screen's finest character actresses, as Mrs. Martin.
Mona Barry as Valentin and Eric Snowden as John Marland. And now, the Lux Radio Theater presents Loretta Young and George Brent and the girl from 10th Avenue. invitation has been issued to the socially prominent of New York City. It reads, Mr. and Mrs. Martin French repress the honor of your presence at the marriage of
their daughter, Valentin, to Mr. John Marlin at High Noon, Tuesday, the 5th of April at St. Thomas Church. Let me look at you, Valentin. No, you make a lovely bride, my dear. Thank you, Father.
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