Magnificent Obsession

On behalf of the American Heart Association, the NBC Theater presents... Production, Magnificent Obsession, Director John Stoll, Star Irene Jones. This is the Screen Director's Guild presentation of the unforgettable Lloyd C. Douglas novel, Magnificent Obsession, starring Irene Dunn in her original role.

The motion picture medium is often described as the most magnificent art form ever devised. for it is a combination of all the arts. One of the most critical of these is the new and dynamic art of the screen director, for it is he who must integrate and guide the forces which combine to make the film.

Therefore, it is with pride that the NBC Theater presents one of the most celebrated exponents of the screen director's art, the president of the Screen Director's Guild, Mr. George Marshall. Thank you very much. I pinch hitting tonight for John Stahl.

as you know, directed magnificent obsession. Another such wonderful films are the Keys of the Kingdom, The Foxes of Harold, and The Walls of Jericho. Magnificent obsession is one of John's favorite pictures because of the appealing simple manner in which it translates basic human values into film, telling of hatred turning into love and darkness into light.

Speaking from myself, I know that you will enjoy magnificent obsession, starring Irene Dunn in her original role as Helen Hudson. I am very calm.

The vortex. The very center of the whirlwind is the stillest. There is tense, anxious action all around me, and I am the center of that tense activity. Yet I am calm. all about me other thin brittle sounds of instruments being made ready.

The whispers of the nurses, the low efficient voices of my surgeries, and these surgeon. Instruments, voices, the voice of the chief surgeon, speaking to me, only faintly dim by the anesthetic. How do you feel?