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Four Daughters

Lux Radio Theatre · December 18, 1939 · 59 min · 9,797 words

The transcript of “Four Daughters”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast December 18, 1939. 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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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you John Garfield, Jeffrey Lin, and Priscilla, Rosemary, Lola, and Leota Lane in Four Daughters. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight in our play, Four Daughters, we take you into an American home, one where the overwhelming problem of bringing up a daughter is multiplied four times. Add the fact that all four daughters are a marriageable age, and we get to say the least very busy telephone.

It's popularly supposed that in such a household the first girl up is the best girl dressed, but thanks to our product, Lux Flakes, one budget can cover four wardrobes quite gracefully. In fact, it's little feminine miracles like this that Lux Flakes thrives on.

Our family tonight could be your own family if you have the necessary number of daughters. Because it's the gaiety courage and affairs of the heart of four daughters that are vital to this drama. On the screen the Warner Brothers production enjoyed such popularity that a sequel called Four Wives will soon be released.

Tonight in our adaptation of Four Daughters we have John Garfield, Jeffrey Lin, and Priscilla Rosemary and Lola Lane from the original cast, and we have an unexpected lane as the fourth daughter. You've seen Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola in many motion pictures.

The Oter Lane has appeared in New York musical comedies and recently has been studying for Grand Opera. When we heard that she was visiting her mother and sisters here in Hollywood, we leapt at the opportunity to cast four sisters as four daughters.

Besides having four members of one family, we have another unusual statistic tonight. Five of our stars are newcomers to the Luxor Radio Theatre. John Garfield makes his first appearance at our microphone in the role which gained him screen-stardom. You'll hear him as Mickey Borden, the embittered composer who somehow contrived to make cynicism a lovable quality.

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