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A Foreign Affair

Screen Directors Playhouse · March 6, 1949 · 59 min · 7,339 words

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From Hollywood, the NBC Theater presents... Aaaaaaaah! Production of Foreign Affair, Director Billy Wilder, Stars, Rosalind Russell, Marlena Dietrich, John Lund. The Hollywood Screen Directors present an hour-long excursion into laughter. Paramount's Academy Award, contending romantic comedy...

A Foreign Affair, starring Rosalind Russell, Marlena Dietrich, and John Lund, and introducing the director of the film, Billy Wild. In Hollywood, when a picture lays an egg, and egg, it is traditional for the director to blame the writer and the writer to blame the director. But Billy Wilder is both. As director and writer,

he is in the sad spot of having only himself to blame. Since coming here from his native Austria, the poor fellow has been forced to take the rap for such eggs as the Major and the Minor, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, and Tonight's Story of Foreign Affair. Ladies and gentlemen, Billy Wilder.

Thank you very much. Tonight, his tianic history is being made. On this program, I am making my debut as an actor. I will appear briefly but brilliantly as a German waiter. We can see I have been working all night on that accent of mine.

So please, nobody cough, or you will miss the performance of mine altogether. Costaring with me, by the way, our raslin rassel is Congresswoman T. B. Frost, Malinidite is Erykafon Schluto and John Lunt is Captain Pringle.

And now for the first time on the air, here is a foreign affair. The second transport plane is flying toward the greatest rubble heap on earth, the city of Berlin. And in the plane, a party of United States congressmen and one congresswoman.

While some of the passengers stare out of the windows, Prem Miss Phoebe Frost is immersed in the notes she is carefully writing into a Prem black book which she holds primly profite on a large cake box. Miss Frost Congresswoman Frost. Yes Congressman Griffin. We're approaching Berlin. Don't you want to see the ruins? Yes Miss Frost as chairman of this committee I suggest you

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