In 1896 New Orleans, the young Cleo Dulane returns to the Esplanade Street house of her late mother's family, the Dulanes, who once ruined her mother after her father's death. Determined to humiliate the family, Cleo takes up residence on Rampart Street and scandalizes the city by openly consorting with Clint Maroon, a Texas gambler. The Lux Radio Theatre production of Saratoga Trunk, based on Edna Ferber's novel, stars Ida Lupino and Zachary Scott and was broadcast on 1947-11-24. Cleo buys off the family's attorney, then follows Clint north to the fashionable resort of Saratoga, where she sets her sights on a wealthy man.
Characters: Cleo Dulane, Clint Maroon, Cupidon, Angelique, Mr. Lohr, Manuel Zell, Bartholomew Van Steed, Madame Lillian Dulane
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Lux presents Hollywood. Leaver Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Ida Lupino and Zachary Scott in Saratoga Trunk. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealey. Speaks from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.
I don't believe any place in America holds more fabulous memories than Saratoga. Saratoga, where the bow-brummels of the 1890s and their fashionable ladies, squandered fortunes at the racetrack and the gaming tables, and sipped champagne beneath tall porticoes and crystal gandalabra.
Tonight we recapture that atmosphere of glamor and excitement with Warner Brothers' green-hit Saratoga trunk from Edna Ferber's novel of the same name. And our stars are Idelipino carrying on the high traditions of one of the theater's oldest families and Zachary Scott as her romantic leading man.
A description of Saratoga in the 90s, written by a local columnist, describes not only the smarter tire of the bells of the period, but the smoothness of their delicate complexions, guarded always by an ornate parasol.
Well, that's one way to protect a lovely complexion, but I'm sure today smart women depend more on luck's toilet soap as a better, more convenient beauty care. And the results apparent, I believe, in the complexions of lovely women everywhere, from Hollywood to Saratoga.
Here's Act One of Saratoga Trunks, starring Ida Lupino as Cleodelaine and Zachary Scott as Clint Maroon. In 1896, in a stately old mansion on Esplanade Street, an attorney is calling with important news for his client.
Come in, Miss Yohase. The ship from France has arrived. Well? Your granddaughter is in New Orleans, Madame Lillain. You will never call her my granddaughter. Never. I pick your pardon. She arrived with two servants, an egress named Angelique.
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kitchen fats are needed just as much as ever. Dealers now pay a much higher price for every pound you turn in. So remember, when you take used fats to your butcher, you help yourself, to help your country too.
Save and turn in promptly every drop you can. Heard in tonight's cast were Jane O'Vello as Cupidane, Noreen Gamil as Angelique, Ben Wright as Van Steed, and Margaret McDonald, Herbert Butterfield, Janet Scott, Regina Wallace, Bill Johnstone, Margaret Muse, Leo Cleary, Norman Field, Tim Graham, Ralph Sedan, Kay Christopher, Eddie Marr, and Stanley Ferrer.
Our music was directed by Lewis Silvers. This program is re-broadcast to our men and women overseas through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces radio servers. Our Lux Radio Theater production and Saratoga trunk has come to you with the good wishes of the makers of Lux Toilets Hope, Hollywood's own beauty soap.
The complexion care used regularly by nine out of ten lovely screen stars. This is your announcer John Milton Kennedy reminding you to join us again next Monday Good night to hear the Ghost in Mrs. Muir with Charles Boye in Madeline Carroll.
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