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The Littlest Rebel

Lux Radio Theatre · October 14, 1940 · 59 min · 9,295 words

The transcript of “The Littlest Rebel”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast October 14, 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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Lutz presents Hollywood. The Lutz Radio Theatre brings you Shirley Temple, Claude Raines and Preston Foster in The Littlest Rebel. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demail. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Whatever it takes to make a motion picture star, we've got a whole lot of it here tonight in a very small package. Shirley Temple is making her first appearance in the Lutz Radio Theatre. Theatre, her first appearance in a full-length radio play. It carried me back a few years to the day I watched her on the set doing her first important role. Later I saw the picture

score its first hit, not at a glittering premiere with milling crowds and bright lights tracing patterns in the sky, but in a studio projection room, just four bare walls and the toughest audience in the world, men and women who make pictures for a living. When it was over, we were all the slaves of an actress, just five years old. For on that afternoon, ladies and

gentlemen, a star was really born. Tonight we present Shirley Temple in one of her biggest twentieth century fox hits, The Littleest Rebel. And opposite Shirley, we have two leading men, two count them, Claude Raines and Preston Foster, both rivals for the ladies' heart.

Naturally, this is a proud week for us, all of us here. We're proud that this distinguished event is brought to you in this theatre by Lux Toilets Ope. And I know you share our pride, because without your help and support, this play and cast would be only a producer's dream.

Your part in this theatre is just as important as any part played on this stage. And we hope that every day you'll give Lux Toilets Ope the important role in your daily living that it deserves. The Littleist Rebel is a story of the human side of the war between the states. It's about a little girl whose bravery and courage found friends and men of

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