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Lux Radio Theatre · January 29, 1940 · 59 min · 8,229 words
The transcript of “Intermezzo”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast January 29, 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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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Herbert Marshall, Ingrid Bergman and Gail Patrick in Intermetsoul, a love story. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
Tonight, a new star comes to the stage of the Lux Radio Theatre. And our date with her was made by a telephone call to Sweden. Miss Ingrid Bergman, who is one of the Hollywood finds of the year, makes her American radio debut in our drama, Intermezzo, because we couldn't imagine anyone else in the role she
played so powerfully on the screen. Intermezzo is a love story. A story both old and new. Old because it's a love story. New because it represents a distinct improvement on a familiar theme. Just as the new quick glocks is an improvement on a tried and true product.
This is constantly bettering things for us, and Lux Flakes keeps pace with the march of science. Miss Bergman was discovered by David Old Selznick and brought here from Sweden to make into Metso, after finishing the picture she went back home.
That's where our telephone call comes in. We reached her at Stockholm and made arrangements for tonight's play when she returned to resume work at the Selznick studio. But it was really you who cast Herbert Marshall in the co-starring role.
received so many letters asking, when are you going to have Herbert Marshall again? That we've seized this opportunity to have him play Haugab brand. And let me congratulate you on a job of perfect casting. To complete the triangle of our love story, we have Gail Patrick as Haugab brand's wife, Margaret. She's a very different character from the wife in a conventional
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