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Mr Belvedere Goes to College

Lux Radio Theatre · January 16, 1950 · 56 min · 8,914 words

The transcript of “Mr Belvedere Goes to College”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast January 16, 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.

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Lux presents Hollywood. Lever Brothers Company, the makers of Lux, toilet soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theater. Starring Pipped and Web, Colleen Gray and Robert Stack in Mr. Belvedere Goes to Colleen. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keeling.

Things from Hollywood ladies and gentlemen. On rare occasions, a character in a picture or play will become so identified with one star that the audience simply can't imagine anyone else in the park. Now that's the way it is with Mr. Belvedere and Clifton Webb.

It all began in a delightful comedy called Sitting Pretty. And the public admired Mr. Belvedere and Clifton Webb to such a fabulous extent that a sequel was immediately demanded. Twenty-a-century Fox came through a few months ago with a second hit.

Mr. Belvedere goes to college. You'll hear it tonight with Clifton Webb as the versatile and ubiquitous Lynn Belvedere. And starring with Mr. Webb are Robert Stack and Colleen Gray. Colleen Gray as a co-ed is quite typical of the standard of beauty among American college girls.

You know there's one thing these girls seem to learn long before they go to college. And that's the best way to take care of a beautiful complexion. Like the screen stars, the smart co-eds depend on Luxe's toilet soap care.

Once again, you meet the famous Mr. Belvedere as the curtain rises on the first act of tonight's play, starting clipped in web in a title role, Colleen Gray as Ellen, and Robert Stack as Bill.

On a bright autumn morning, a visitor pauses at the gates of Clemens University. Then with an air of mixed boredom and determination, he starts across the campus. The tickers for the war bash game. They're on sale now.

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