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Wuthering Heights

Lux Radio Theatre · November 4, 1940 · 56 min · 7,458 words

The transcript of “Wuthering Heights”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast November 4, 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. Pretty old theater brings you high-delepino and basil raspons in Wuthering Heights. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Jamill. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

And incidentally, it's good to be back in Hollywood. Like most travelers, I had a wonderful time on my trip across the country. And like all home bodies, I'm glad to be home. especially glad when there's a play like Wuthering Heights to do with stars like Ida Lupino and Basil Rathbourn. For sheer drama and excitement few stories can

equal Wuthering Heights. It's a wild tempestuous play, stormy as it local and oblique English mowers. But through all that stormy atmosphere shines the clear light of one of the world's great love stories. The story of Kathy and Heathcliff.

Kathy, the girl of distinguished family, who had the world within her reach and Heathcliff, strong willed and proud, who had only Kathy. Emily Bronta's powerful story of Wuthering Heights has become an immortal classic, and Samuel Golden did full justice to it in his fine motion picture.

As Kathy, in our radio production tonight, we present one of the finest young actresses on the screen, Ida Lupino, in one of the greatest emotional parts of all time. As Heath Cliff, you'll hear one of the screen's finest actors, Basil Rathbone, in a part that only a fine actor should play.

Last week when I spoke to you from New York City, I told you how enthusiastically women from coast to coast had referred to both the Lux Radio Theatre and the two products behind Lux flakes and Lux toilets open. Coming back I heard the same story and more. I learned that people everywhere regard the Lux Radio Theatre as a real American tradition. Just as

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