In the frontier town of Laramie, Wyoming, in 1869, Annie Morgan, a schoolteacher from Philadelphia, buys a riverside lot at a land auction run by lawyer Stephen Lewis for the ruthless landowner Jim Cork. Cork's men try to intimidate bidders, and Annie, who has come west with her parents' inheritance, refuses to be pushed aside. Stephen and Annie begin a tentative friendship as Cork's grip on the town tightens. The episode is the Lux Radio Theatre production broadcast on June 16, 1941, starring Loretta Young, Robert Preston and Edward Arnold.
Characters: Annie Morgan, Stephen Lewis, Jim Cork, Henry Freeman, Mr. Browning, Duck Browning, Jean Saunders
The transcript of “The Lady from Cheyenne”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast June 16, 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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Lux presents Hollywood. Lux radio theatre brings you Lareda Young, Robert Preston and Edward Arnold in The Lady from Cheyenne. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen.
Whoever said it's a man's world must have had his tongue in his cheek when he said it or a very red cheek after he said it. But however he said that he was leading with his chin.
It was dangerous to say that, even in the days of the wild and woolly west, as we'll prove tonight, in a play called The Lady from Cheyenne. The Lady in the case is Loretta Young, and the gentlemen in her life are Robert Preston and Edward Arnold, who learned about women from her in Frank Lloyd's Universal Picture.
Of course, there's always plenty of action in the story of the Wild West, because whether it was a woman's world or not, the men still thought it was their world. But the lady from Cheyenne beats the frontier politicians at their own game and reminds us, rather forcibly, that women were voting in Wyoming long before the rest of the country
ever considered the idea. Wyoming deserves a deep bow from her 47 sisters for being the first to present the ladies with the ballot. But there are reasons other than voting why American women take more of a hand in public affairs today.
For one thing, they have more time off from domestic affairs thanks to the gifts of modern science like flux flakes for infants. Women gave that a smashing vote long ago and immediately elected it to a prominent place on millions of kitchen shelves that's been reelected at every election since and the record shows
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His forthcoming picture is Paramount's Nothing But the Truth with Bob Hope. Robert Preston will soon be seen in the Paramount Picture the night of January 16th. Our play was adapted from the picture of the lady from Cheyenne, based on the story The First Woman Voter, written by Jonathan Finn and Theresa Oaks.
Included in tonight's play were Forest Taylor as Hank Freeman, Jane Morgan as Mrs. McInnes, Vivian Janis as Elsie, Lou Merrill as Billy, Footman Munier as Ike Fairchild, Warren Ash as Barney, Buck Woods as George, Stanley Ferrar as Dunbar, and Bruce Payne, Gail Gordon, Dick Stavis, Gloria Blondell, Celeste Brush, Tyler McVay, Dick Ryan and Barbara Jean Moore.
Our music is directed by Lewis Silver's and your announcer has been Melville Roy. This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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