Murder My Sweet

Lux presents Hollywood. Lux Radio Theater brings you Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, June Dupre, and Mike Mazzurky in Murder My Sweet. Ladies and gentlemen, your guest producer, Mr. Irving Pitcher. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

In answer to the proverb that a leopard cannot change its spots, we bring you tonight a gentleman who turns his back on many years of light and frothy rule, by which he climbed to stardom and takes the path of a ruthless, hard-as-nails detective in a drama as relentless as the crimes that it unfolds. His dick-pal, hailed so enthusiastically

as Philip Marlow in RKO's sensational success, Murder My Sweet. Co-starred with him in her screen-roll as the fatal and mysterious Helen is Claire Trevor, also June Duprey, whose natural So loveliness would lead us to expect a touch of romance in our play.

And towering above our microphones is Mike Mazzurky, as the quietly alarming Moose Malloy. Four characters of widely different natures and conflicting motives, involved in one of the screen's most baffling and complex mysteries, a story that in its published form was one of the best-selling thrillers of our time.

Most of the action of Murder My Sweet takes place right here in Hollywood, not too far from our stage. You saw the picture. You've seen many Hollywood sites from Malibu Beach to Sunset Towers, from the skyline of Los Angeles to the canyons of our hills.

Landmarks as native to Hollywood as the radio and motion picture studios from which these dramas come. In fact, the name Lux on the outside of our theater is, I venture to say, a familiar landmark in this capital of entertainment, as Lux soap itself is familiar in the dressing rooms of screen-scars stars.