Join Potato Plus

Transcripts › Lux Radio Theatre

Letter to Three Wives

Lux Radio Theatre · February 20, 1950 · 54 min · 8,592 words

The transcript of “Letter to Three Wives”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast February 20, 1950. 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.

Machine transcript (may contain errors).

Transcript

Lux presents Hollywood. Leave your brother's company, the makers of Lux Blake's. Bring you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Paul Douglas and Linda Darnell in Letter to Three Wives. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Kealy.

Leading from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. As a motion picture director, I know the first requirement of a good picture is a good story. So, when Letter to Three Wives received the Screenwriters Guild Award for the best written comedy of 1949, it was obvious that Joseph Mankowitz had turned out an unusually clever screenplay for the 20th Century Fox hit.

It concerns a letter written by a small town siren to three wives, and how that letter threatens their security and happiness. Tonight we have Linda Darnell in her original role, and co-starring with her, also from the original cast is Paul Douglas, who achieved enormous success on Broadway before he brought his refreshingly different talent to the screen.

We know you'll welcome letter to three wives, just as we have welcomed letters from thousands of wives about Lux flakes. very grateful for these letters because they tell us exactly why you like our product and with Lux flakes that isn't hard is it? The curtain rises on Saul Siegel's production Letter to Three Wives starring Paul Douglas as Porter and

Linda Donnell as the mayor. I just finished writing the letter in a moment the messenger boy will take it down to the dark. He'll deliver it to my three I'm Mrs. Ross, Addy Ross. But this isn't my story, not exactly. It's the story of my three dearest friends. Let's start with Deborah, shall we? Mrs. Brad Bishop. I've known Brad

Read the full transcript with Potato Plus

199 more paragraphs, about 53 more minutes of the episode. Potato Plus is every episode on demand from any moment, every transcript in full and unlimited transcript search, for $5 a month.

Potato Plus opens soon: join the list

All Lux Radio Theatre transcripts · Search every transcript · The archive

The weekly note

New channels, the best find from the archive, and what is coming up. One email a week.

LIVE
Open