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Hired Wife
Screen Directors Playhouse · April 12, 1951 · 59 min · 7,594 words
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Screen Director's Playhouse, Stars, Rosalind Russell, Jeff Chandler, Production, Hired Wife, Director, William Siter. This is the Screen Director's Playhouse, the Thursday night feature on NBC's All-Star Festival of Comedy, Music, Mystery, and Drama.
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Tonight, the Screen Director's Playhouse is pleased to present a comedy for springtime. Here is our adaptation of the perils of a private secretary, hired wife, and here are our stars, Rosalind Russell and Jeff Chandler.
And Secretary, I'm Kendall Browning. I'm Stephen Dexter. Cement is my business. And it's always business. With all the orc to choose from, I had to fall for a man with a head full of cement.
I draw your attention to my private secretary. She has horn rimmed glasses and a poised pencil. She also has a deep conviction that businessmen are just big little boys. She puts lollipops in my cigar box.
That's Kendall Brownie. Now here's Chesterfield's answer to Cyrano de Bergerac. Bob Hope. I'd top easy dad, but we only have a minute here to sell Chesterfield. Okay, well let's get to it. Better tasting Chesterfield is the only cigarette that combines for you mildness with no unpleasant aftertaste.
The mildness is a sense to prove. You just make Chesterfield mildness test. You know, open a pack and enjoy that mild aroma. Then smoke them, and you'll know that Chesterfield's a mildness. And Chesterfield leaves no unpleasant aftertaste. That fact has been confirmed by the country's first and only cigarette taste panel.
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