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Lux Radio Theatre · December 11, 1944 · 59 min · 9,748 words
The transcript of “Casanova Brown”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast December 11, 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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Luck presents Hollywood. The Luck Radio Theater brings you Catherine of the Brown, starring Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, and John Bennett. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
When you hear the name of Catherine over, you probably think of him as a notorious Italian lover of the 18th century. But he was a lot more than that. He was an author and a diplomat and a man of learning and good taste, and while his life was not without its lurid side, he ended as an innocent librarian.
In tonight's play, you meet his namesake and descendant, Catherine over Brown. What Catherine over record is in Amherst Adventure you are about to learn. But like the earlier Catherine over, he too is a man of taste and learning, but most decidedly family man, which may go somewhat oddly with the Casanova name, and he is Gary Cooper.
So Gary plays Casanova Brown in tonight's production of that current international picture. Coast Hardwood Gary is charming Joan Bennett and the versatile Thomas Mitchell. Together, they bring us the memoirs of a modern Casanova. I won't tell you more than that except to say that when Gary worked for me making the story of Dr. Wessel. I put him through some very difficult predicaments, but none so odd is in
tonight's play, where he finds himself taking care of a three-week-old baby. Gary tells me that his fan mail now gives him advice on baby care. I don't know whether those letters mention washing baby women's and luck's flakes. But a 70-year-old lady writes me that she has knit over 150 pairs of stocks for men in the
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