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Lux Radio Theatre · January 31, 1944 · 57 min · 8,623 words
The transcript of “Random Harvest”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast January 31, 1944. 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 Ronald Coleman and Greer Gartson in Random Harbitt. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. Demille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Consider yourself a motion picture producer for a moment.
You've just been handed the best-selling novel of the year and is yours for a picture. You have all the ingredients for a hit, and it would take Superman to live up to what everyone expects.
what everyone expects. That's what faced the men who brought James Hilton's dramatic story, Random Harvest, to the screen. They had two great stars, Ronald Coleman, with the longest record of success of any artist in town, and Greer Garson, fresh from her Academy Award performance in Mrs. Minnevere. But when the Metro Goldwyn Mayer production, Random
Harvest reached the public, it's the past even the advance promises. And tonight, we present the original stars of the picture in this haunting love story of a soldier who lost his memory and a girl who helped him find it. Ronald Coleman has just finished Kismet at Metro Golden Mayor and Miss Garson's latest picture, Madame Curie, is that studio's candidate for
the Academy Award this year and it was made by the same producer-directed team responsible for Random Harvest, Sidney Franklin and Mervyn LaRoy. Tonight's play goes to our fighting forces overseas by short waves. And if a certain sergeant in New Guinea should be listening, we wish to thank him for the following lines of this, which appeared in Yank Down Under,
that an army newspaper published by and for enlisted men in the South West Pacific. Here's the bit of G.I.verse. Somewhere out west in the endless blue, where the ocean and sky are of similar heel, a ship and a crew wait to enter the fray, to fight for the good old American way, to fight for a hot dog and luxe toilet soap, for picnics on Sunday in
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