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True Confession
Lux Radio Theatre · May 13, 1940 · 59 min · 10,395 words
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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Loretta Young and Fred McMurray in true confession. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
Anna Nias, Baron Manchausen and Paul Bunyan, developed considerable fame as tellers of tall tales. But they were small-fry compared to Helen Bartlett. a young lady in tonight's play, True Confession. When a young wife usually says the wrong thing at the right time, and always tells a lie with the best intentions, she's lucky to have a lawyer for her husband.
And by the same token, the lawyer is lucky if he can keep his wife and himself out of jail. It's a great help if they love each other, and that's the case in True Confession.
It's an exciting comedy with everything in it, from romance to murder, with waist ups for lunacy and laughter. In spite of her weakness for exaggeration, I think you'll find Helen Bartlett a charming heroine. As this lovely liar, we present Loretta Young in a role that any comedian would give her right arm to play. And as the distracted husband, Fred McMurray has the same party
played in the Paramount Picture, true confession. Loretta and Fred are an ideal starring team, and teamwork, of course, is the secret of any successful project, both on the stage and off. That's why so many good homemakers team up with Lux flakes. They know that half their worries go out the window when Lux flakes comes
in the door. Now the curtain rises on our team of stars, Loretta Young as Helen Bartlett, and Fred McMurray as Kenneth Bartlett, with Ruth Donnellay as Daisy in act one of true confession. In the modest office building in New York City is the very modest law office of Kenneth Buffett, one room, one desk, no secretary. This morning,
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