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Lux Radio Theatre · May 24, 1943 · 59 min · 8,688 words
The transcript of “Hitlers Children”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast May 24, 1943. 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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Luck present Hollywood. The Luck's Radio Theater brings you Bonita Grandville, Otto Kruger, Kent Smith and Walter Reed in Hitler's Children. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Ladies and Hollywood ladies and gentlemen, a few months ago a bomb struck Hollywood.
The bomb was a motion picture called Hitler's Children. I don't know what they producers expected, but they woke up one morning with a nation of two men. wide sensation on our hands. A picture with a modest beginning that suddenly exploded into one of the biggest hits of the year. That makes Hitler's children a radio prize. We had a
hunchered would be, and so to use an old Hollywood expression we, we thowed it up well in advance. Tonight we have three of the original players who appeared in the RKO picture. For Nina Grand Bill, Otto Kruger, and Kent Smith.
And with them, we present one of this town's very promising young actors, Walter Reed. It's as children as not a war play, but it draws back the curtain of mystery that surrounds the Nazi fortress and gives us a thrilling glimpse of how the hate and horror and cruelty may be defeated from within.
This is the time of year when I take on a rather dangerous job, and the popularity of luck, toilet, soap doesn't make it any easier. The graduating class is at various school and colleges around the country, send in photographs of the girls in the class, and ask me to pick the most beautiful.
Fortunately, for my peace of mind, the losers are always good sports, because the decision is usually a close one. There are many types of beauty among the girls in these photographs, but nearly all have one thing in common, a lovely complexion.
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