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The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer

Lux Radio Theatre · June 13, 1949 · 59 min · 9,775 words

The transcript of “The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast June 13, 1949. 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. Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux Toilets Hope, bring you the Lux Radio Theatre, starring Carrie Grant and Shirley Temple in The Bachelor and the Bobby Sockser. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealey.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we welcome back to the Lux Radio Theatre, A man whom I consider one of America's truly great screen stars, Kerry Grant. Whit Kerry is a young lady who long ago captured the heart of America and has held it ever since, Shirley Temple.

Together they bring us RKO's sparkling romantic comedy, The Bachelor and the Bobby Sockser. Whit Kerry has the gay man about town and Shirley as the adoring Bobby Sockser, the same delightful performances that made the picture a hit.

You know the Bobby Sockser has introduced some fascinating additions to the American language and mode of dress. But I understand she's still old-fashioned enough to want a lovely lux complexion. So she takes a lesson from her mother and the screen stars, and lets lux toilet soap help out on the beauty front.

Now I'd like to have you meet the Bachelor in the Bobby Sockser, starring Kerry Grant as Richard Nugent and Shirley Temple as Susan, with Frances Robinson as Margaret. Years ago, a sympathetic neighbor describes a Turner girl as those poor little lonely orphans.

Since then, the neighbors changed her mind. True, the Turner girls are still orphans, but they don't need anybody's sympathy. They are Susan, the Bobby Soxer, 17 years old editor of the high school paper and swamp with boyfriends.

And then there's Margaret, Margaret, the lady lawyer, who is now Judge Turner, Deciding in dignity over the city of municipal court. Right now all the torn attorney girls are at breakfast. So what's very important that I know Margaret? No what? That case in court. The man who ran away with a 16 year old

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