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Rebecca

Lux Radio Theatre · February 3, 1941 · 59 min · 9,325 words

The transcript of “Rebecca”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast February 3, 1941. 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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Now the curtain rises on a great love story the strange drama of Rebecca The scene of this drama is mandolin the great stone manor house high on a cliff above the restless sea You'll hear Ronald Coleman as Maxim de Winter Judith Anderson as Mrs. Danvers and Ida Lupino as the woman whose name we do not know

Last night, I dreamt I went to Mandelie again. It seemed to me I stood by the iron gate leading to the drive. But for a while I could not enter, for the way was barred to me.

Then, like all dreamers, I was possessed of a sudden with supernatural powers, and passed like a spirit through the barrier before me. drive wound away in front of me, twisting and turning, and finally there was Mandelie.

Mandelie's secretive and silent. Time could not mar the perfect symmetry of those walls, but I knew I looked upon a desolate, empty shell. We can never go back to Mandelie again. much is certain. But sometimes in my dreams I do go back to the strange days of my life which began for me in the south of France. There on a great cliff, towering above the

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