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True To Life

Old Gold Comedy Theater · November 12, 1944 · 29 min · 4,807 words

The transcript of “True To Life”, an episode of Old Gold Comedy Theater first broadcast November 12, 1944. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Old Gold Comedy Theater plays Old Gold Comedy Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Hollywood California, the makers of old gold cigarettes, present the comedy theater, the only radio program that brings you every week, the greatest stars and the greatest comedies. Tonight's play, True to Life, starring Dick Powell, Victor Moore, and Rosemary DeCan.

And here is the director of the old gold comedy theater and your host, Harold Lloyd. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. You know someone once said the movies should be more like life And the wise man answered life should be more like the movies in that tonight's story true to life We're going to attempt to show that radio can be like both now in the part of link Ferris. I've cast dick power

Thank you. I'll say Harold you forgot to tell everyone what kind of work I do Your link fairs and you and your partner Fletcher Marvin are the only two writers in radio making $1,000 a week a piece. Why you're the kings of the daytime serials.

Kings ought to get more than that. I got to see my age. Wait a minute. You weren't supposed to say that. All right, Harold. But you know, as one of the countries leading authorities on comedy, whom have you chosen to play pop porter? You know, that calls for one of the biggest actors

in the character business. Right. So one of the biggest characters in the acting business is going to play Pop Porter. Victor Moore. It sure looks like I'm getting a business around here. Why Vic, Pop Porter's a wonderful guy.

He spends most of his spare time with his inventions. Yeah well say Harold, who's going to play my daughter Bonnie? Bonnie's an awful nice girl. That's right. And she's pretty too. Well Bonnie's going to be played by Rosemary DeCamp.

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