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The Young In Heart

Lux Radio Theatre · February 5, 1940 · 58 min · 9,162 words

The transcript of “The Young In Heart”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast February 5, 1940. 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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The Buck's Radio Theatre brings you Dan Amici, Ida Lupino, May Robeson, and Helen Wood in the Young and Heart. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil D. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When you live by your wits, without much attention to hard work, every road leads to trouble.

That's the way it is with these lovable renegades, the Carltons, in our play, the Young and Heart. Until they meet a lady named Fortune, and not the notorious Dame Fortune either, just a plain silver-haired, very gentle old lady, whose first name is Ellen.

She teaches them that happiness doesn't always go with irresponsibility, and in fair exchange they teach her how to be young and hot, and that's a trick everyone wants to know. A good beginning for the ladies, of course, is to use Lux Turlitzo.

We know that a woman is only as old as she looks, so by helping her keep lovely in appearance, Lux Toileth's soap helps her keep young and hot, too. Our play, The Young and Hot, is adapted from David O. Seltnick's first motion picture, fine motion picture, and requires a highly versatile cast.

Some actors can be great actors in only one kind of part. So before engaging any of our stars, we examined their previous performances on the screen and to our microphone to make sure they had all the talents this play demands. That's the reason Donna Michie, Ida Lupino, Mae Robeson and Helen Wood are gathered at this microphone tonight.

In our drama, Donna Michie plays that professional avoider of hard work, Richard Carlton, although actually, Don has done just about every kind of work that Richard has avoided. Mae Robeson is the the gentle lady Ellen Fortune. And our guarantee there's no one in Hollywood who better deserves the title of Young and Heart. She's earned it in 57 years on stage and screen without missing

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