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Lux Radio Theatre · June 8, 1936 · 59 min · 8,800 words
The transcript of “The Thin Man”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast June 8, 1936. 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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Hollywood, California, Monday, June 8th. Perhaps radio theater presented from its new home on Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, California. Lux presents Hollywood.
Such great personalities as William Powell, Murna Loy, W. S. Van Dyke, Lita Barra, James Seymour, Minna Gumbo, Porter Hall, and many others will take part in this presentation, sent you by the makers of Lux Toileth Soap, the beauty soap of the star.
Appearing before a distinguished Hollywood audience, Mr. Powell, Ms. Loy, and the cast of 18 great players present the play that has broken box office records from coast to coast, The Thin Man. And as producer tonight, we present the director who did The Thin Man on the screen.
Together with such triumphs as North America, Greater Horn, Rose Marie, I Live My Life, and countless other smash hit pictures. Mr. W.S. Van Dyke, Mr. Van Dyke. Hello everybody. Well, it's a great scene of the Lux Radio Theatre tonight.
You're our audience. We have Betty Davis, Janine Lucille Gleason, Bob Armstrong, O'Lillison of Olson and Johnson, Dewarwin, Jimmy Starr, Phoenix Communist, Evelyn Dannabel, Mr. and Mrs. Leon's blessing here. Maybe it would interest you a little inside information on the show we're doing tonight, The Thin Man, and about William Powell and Myrna Lloyd who are going
to do it for you. As you know, the thin man was the best-selling novel by Daniel Hammer. Unstormed, worked out the studio, MGM, got a hold of it and brought it to me. What he said, if you'll make this picture out by the story? Well, I read it.
And while it was a good enough mystery story, there was something else about the book that struck me. Here was something new and fresh and very charming, a romance between a man and his wife. It's the story of a couple of kids that understood each other and had a blessed confidence in each other. Beneath all the casualness and all the wise cracking,
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