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It Had to Be You

Screen Directors Playhouse · January 27, 1950 · 29 min · 4,138 words

The transcript of “It Had to Be You”, an episode of Screen Directors Playhouse first broadcast January 27, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Directors Playhouse plays Screen Directors Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Ginger Rogers, originally scheduled to star on the Screen Director's Playhouse tonight, will not be heard because of illness. In our star role tonight, we are happy to present Miss Joan Fontaine. C.A. Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television, proudly present.

Screen Director's Playhouse, star Joan Fontaine, production it had to be you, directors Don Hartman, Rudolf Matei. Hollywood screen directors present a little fun, a little fantasy. For the first time on the air, the motion picture comedy, it had to be used, starring Joan Fontaine as Vicky.

We hasten to assure the radio audience that the following is based upon scientific documents gathered in the case of George X, a figment of the imagination. Unlike most figments, however, George materialized one day into an apparently real human being.

Here then is an account of the incident as set down by his own hand in the following letter. So the American Institute of Psychological Phenomenon. Gentlemen, in the interest of science, I hereby submit this report.

You see, I am a figment of the imagination. A rather handsome, dashing figment. And nevertheless a figment, temporarily named George. I was created by one victorious Stafford, a golden-haired young lady of such provoking an enemy that I could never quite bring myself to regard her as my, uh, mental mother.

Vicki, I might add, was a sculptress who fancied herself in love with a stuffed prune named Oliver H.P. Harrington. Oh, Oliver, I do love you. I'm almost sure I do. Under these circumstances, the following action became necessary.

Vicki was returning from Maine, where she'd been fashioning statues while making her decision to marry Oliver H.P. Harrington. Oh, Oliver, I do love you. I'm almost sure I do. Having made said decision, Vicki Wyatt, Oliver, HP Harrington the meter took the train fell into a deep sleep and Immediately proceeded the dream. This is of course is where I came in

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