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Branded

Lux Radio Theatre · January 28, 1952 · 55 min · 8,373 words

The transcript of “Branded”, an episode of Lux Radio Theatre first broadcast January 28, 1952. 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. Oh. Leaver Brothers Company, the makers of Lux's toilet soap, bring you the Lux Radio Theater, starring Curt Lancaster, Charles Pickford, and Nancy Gates in Brandiz. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. William Keel.

Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen. When we think of the days of the early West, Branded is a term we usually associate with round-up time and a great cattle drive. But in our play tonight, Branded serves to mark one man as another, giving him a forged birthmark which will allow him to step from a life of crime

to one of wealth and positions. As our stars of this absorbing drama from the Paramount Studios, Mr. Burchester in one of the rugged roles for which he's famous, also that excellent character actor Charles Bichford and graciously stepping in for Mona Freeman, Nancy Gates.

And of course the word branded can also carry the public's stamp of approval. Surely there can be no higher compliment than to be branded a Lux girl. Because if you're a Lux girl, you can be sure you have the very best in complexion care.

your dependable daily Lux toilets-old facials. The curtain rises on branded, starting Bert Lancaster as Choya, Charles Bichford as Mr. Lavery and Nancy Gates as Ruth Lavery. Arizona, 50 years ago, the lonely desolate Canyon Country, a refuge for anyone anxious to keep ahead of the law, a man for instance like Choya.

I figured to stay in the canyon for a week or so and then turn east again. No Mexico, maybe a Kansas. Arizona was getting too hot for me. Too many sheriffs and too many towns were looking for me.

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