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Johnny OClock

Lux Radio Theatre · May 12, 1947 · 59 min · 9,112 words

The transcript of “Johnny OClock”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast May 12, 1947. 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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For her birthday anniversary or graduation, choose a glamorous new Balava Her Excellency Watch. Twenty-one Jewels. America's greatest watch value. My transcription. Lux presents Hollywood. Leeper Brothers Company, the makers of Lux's toilet soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theater.

starring Dick Powell and Marguerite Chapman in Johnny O'Cock with Lee J. Cobb and Janice Carter. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeley. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. I don't know what your preference is, but when it comes to people in general, the favorite form of entertainment is not comedy, not melodrama, not even romance.

It's mystery. Take, for example, Columbia Pictures' current murder mystery, Johnny O'clock, which we're presenting tonight, starting Dick Powell in the title role and Marguerite Chapman with Lee Jay Carr and Janis Carter. Dick and Lee in their original screen roles. We've had many requests for Johnny O'clock, and one that we're happy to acknowledge comes from Miss

Marilyn Hires, who works as a car hop in a Pasadena drive-in. And let me assure you that Southern California prides itself on the attractiveness and beauty of its carhouse. She says in her letter, I started using Luxo when I was attending high school.

Now that I am in contact with the public all day long, I appreciate the value of a nice skin, and Luxo has certainly been wonderful for that. Our thanks to Miss Hires as we raise our curtain on Act 1 of Johnny O'Cloth, starting Dick Powell as Johnny and Marguerite Chapman as Nancy Hobson with Lee J. Cobb as Inspector

Koch and Janice Carter as Nell. A spring evening in New York City, in the lobby of a better-class Midtown hotel, the desk clerk assumes the painful duty of speaking to a man who stands before the counter.

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