Merton of the Movies

But present Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theatre brings you Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Martin of the movies. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. On Monday nights after our curtain falls and our stars have gone home, the staff usually hangs around for a while

to cut up the show, check out all the flaws and see where we made our mistakes. One Monday night, a few weeks ago, I accused the boys of having failed to startle me with anything lately.

They were already for me. They said, let's put Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Merton of the movie. That was a startle. It happened that our two stars had just finished their picture, babes on Broadway at Metro Gordon there.

So here's Mickey, here's Judy, and here's Merton of the movies. And I suppose, here's an audience that's wondering what's going to come out of it all. who are move over brother and make room for us.

Nobody knows when youngsters as lively as these two are concerned. But most of you will remember that Merton of the movies was a triple hit, as a novel, a play, an emotion picture. It's the amazing story of what happened to one movie struck young man, who exchanged the comparative calm of a general store in the middle west

to the incomparable Hurley Burley of Hollywood. In Hollywood, the story of obscurity one day and fame the next It's an old old story. It's just as much to be expected as the sight of dancing, you know, pirate or Eskimo on the studio street. Of course, luck, Turlitz opened the stars dressing. But to be a real success, you can't be famous