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Lux Radio Theatre: Made for Each Other

Lux Radio Theatre · February 19, 1940 · 59 min · 10,185 words

What happens

Johnny Mason, a young lawyer at the firm of Doolittle, Mizz, Smith, Doolittle and Hutch, marries Jane on impulse after a chance meeting in Boston and plans a honeymoon in Bermuda. His employer, Judge Doolittle, refuses to give him more than ten days off, and Johnny's plans begin to unravel. Johnny's mother is shocked by the sudden marriage, and the young couple's wish to live independently is tested as they move through early married life. This is the Lux Radio Theatre production of Made for Each Other, broadcast on February 19, 1940, starring Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray.

Characters: Johnny Mason, Jane Mason, Judge Doolittle, Mrs. Mason, Eunice Doolittle, Carter

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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Carol Lombard and Fred McMurray, in made for each other. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

To most playwrights, a love story ends at the altar, and leaves the rest of us wondering whether they really lived happily ever after. But anyone who's ever been to the altar knows that their life story just begins there.

So when I'll play tonight made for each other, we skip the courtship and tell the best part of the story, the married life of two average, healthy young Americans. And since our boy and girl are so typically American, their story is more than a love story.

It's the drama of America in our own day, because the home of Johnny and Jane Mason multiplied some millions of times, is America. That's why this play made for each other is made to order for the Lux Radio Theatre, an institution supported by women like Jane, who have given Lux Toilets' hope an important place in their homes. They know the value in this modern world

of looking their best and the value of Lux Toilets' hope in helping them do it. To bring you this average young married couple, we selected two players who are certainly far above average and talent. Carol Lombard and Fred McMurray. Ms. Lombard as Jane has the same part she played in the David O. Selvnik picture made for each other, which was written by Joe Swelling. Fred

McMurray is currently playing applauded for a fine job in Paramount's Remember the Night. When we decided to produce tonight's play, both our stars were absent from Hollywood on well-deserved vacations. Fred on a hunting trip in the mountains of California and Carol on a hunting trip in the mountains of Mexico.

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When the Lux Radio Theater presents Rudy Valley, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel, and Roscoe Carnes in Swing High, Swing Low. This is Cecil B. DeMille saying goodnight to you from Hollywood. Heard in tonight's play, for Brenna Felton, as Mrs. Mason, Lou Merrill, as Judge Doolittle, Hallie K. Dawson as Carter, Rosemary De Camp as Eunice Do Little,

Edward Meyer as Conway, Wheaton Chambers as Dr. Healy, John Fee as Murphy, Robert Gray as Hatton, Bernice Pilate as Annie, Mary Lansing and Marjorie McGregor as nurses, and Griff Barnett, Howard McNeer and Jackie Morrison.

Carol Lombard's current picture is RKO's Vigil in the Night. Fred McMurray is now co-starring on the screen with Barbara Stenwick in the Paramount picture, Remember the Night. Our music was directed by Louis Silvers. May we call your attention to the fact that this week has been proclaimed by the President of the United States as National Defense Week.

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