Lillian Russell

Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Alice Vain, Edward Arnold, and Victor Mature in Millian Russell. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight we turn back from the nervous world of the 1940s to those gay and glamorous years at the end of the last century, back to those years when a certain very beautiful woman was the toast of America. Her name was Lillian Russell, and that name is the title of tonight's play.

We present Lillian Russell not as a shadowy legend, but as a woman who lived and loved and had the world of her feet. She comes to life again and the person of Miss Alice Fay, who has a considerable portion of the world of her feet right now.

You'll hear her singing the same song hits that Lillian Russell made famous, Songs that carry me back to the gay 90s, for I knew Lillian and Diamond Jim Brady both. And that makes the characters of this play very real to me.

Lillian Russell was one of Alice Faye's biggest hits at 20th Century Fox, and those who saw it on the screen will also remember Edward Arnold's great performance as Diamond Jim Brady. He's here tonight to repeat the same part in our production, and Victor Matur plays Alexander Moore.

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