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Heaven Can Wait

Lux Radio Theatre · October 11, 1943 · 58 min · 10,012 words

The transcript of “Heaven Can Wait”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast October 11, 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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Lux presents Hollywood. The Lux Radio Theater brings you Donamichi and Marina Hera in Heaven Can Wait. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Ladies from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. For 20 years, our town has admired something called the Lubitsch Touch.

That special brand of gayity and romance that distinguishes pictures directed by Ernst Lubitsch. and tonight we offer a prize example of this cinema magic. The current screen hit from 20th century Fox heaven can wait. Hard-boiled Hollywood thinks Ghana Michi gave his best performance in this picture and tonight he plays the same part opposite Marina Hara, one of Hollywood's most brilliant young actresses.

Heaven can wait has no social problems to solve, no message, but they all compelling one of good entertainment and we never can get too much of that for particularly these days. The play is the story of a man named Henry Van Cleve, who's been in hot water most of his life because of his rather enthusiastic interest in the opposite

sex. But he's at least at last called to account in a very strange play. I think Heaven can wait should go very well with this national audience and with our global audience too. a fairly new addition consisting of those Americans in uniform all over the world who enjoy these plays along with us at home. It's really one gigantic family fireside that

Lux flakes brings together on these Monday evenings. Somewhere on a little South Pacific island, a lad may be listening. While somewhere on the plains of Iowa, his family is listening to. Perhaps, in its way, the Lux Radio Theatre has become a kind of American institution, just like the product that makes this theatre possible. You may have to wait a few days now

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