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Love Crazy

Lux Radio Theatre · October 5, 1942 · 59 min · 9,634 words

The transcript of “Love Crazy”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast October 5, 1942. 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 presents Hollywood. The Luck Radio Theatre brings you William Powell and Hedylamar in Love Crazy. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecal B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

I know very little about astrology, but I'm sure anyone could draw an accurate horoscope promising success and popularity for the Luck Radio Theatre tonight. One quick look at the stars would be enough, because those stars are two of the brightest in the Hollywood sky, William Powell and Hedy Lamar.

We borrowed them from the Metro-Gorgon-Mayer constellation, where they shone together recently in crossroads, and where Hedy Lamar has just finished the much talked about white cargo. We went to the same studio for our play, the gay comedy Love Crazy.

to remember it as one of Bill Powell's most versatile performances. Tonight you'll hear Bill and Heddi Langhal as husband and wife, starting out to celebrate their wedding anniversary, but naturally not expecting a domineering aunt, an ex-suite heart and a lunacy commission to horn in on the celebration.

In a world where people have adventures like that, I suppose very few are guided by the Greek philosophers. But you'll find some highly modern ideas among them. Aristotle, for instance, who had never heard of luck, toilet soap, because it hadn't been invented, but stoutly maintained that personal beauty is a better introduction than any letter.

He might have been thinking of a motion picture star or any one of millions of lovely American girls who know all about luck, soap. They all share the same secret, and the little magician that helps them is known to most of you I believe in three little words like toilet soap.

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