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Her Husbands Affair

Screen Directors Playhouse · May 22, 1949 · 29 min · 4,064 words

The transcript of “Her Husbands Affair”, an episode of Screen Directors Playhouse first broadcast May 22, 1949. 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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From Hollywood, the NBC Theater presents... ...the Hollywood Screen Directors present something to laugh about. The Columbia Pictures comedy Her Husbands Affairs, starring Lucille Ball, and introducing the director of the film S. Sylvan Simon.

One of the most valuable tools in the art of comedy direction is an educated laugh. The scene the director thinks is funny is the scene that finally appears on the screen. Tonight our guest screen director is a man whose laughter has the very best references.

He employed it well and often to bring you such grand entertainment as Rhea Rita, whistling in the dark, the full of brush man, and tonight's story for husband's affairs. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. S. Sylvan Simon.

After that introduction I can see a new nickname coming up, laughing boy Simon. Actually, even a screen director doesn't go around laughing at thin air, except maybe the night before his pictures preview. Nobody minds then because it might be his last laugh in a long while.

But most of the time you have to have something to laugh at. For me, her husband's affairs was a lot of fun. I hope you'll enjoy it too, as you hear tonight for the first time on the air, starring Lucille Ball in her original role of Margaret with Elliot Lewis as Bill.

Bill, the alarm clock. It's a clock. It's a clock. Turn off the alarm. Time to get up.

Time to sell hats for the good old crook shank advertising agency. Crook shank. Bald head at old booby. You know. Egg head. I'm glad I don't work for him anymore. I'm glad I married you.

Bill Weld and the working girls refuge. You're a genius and I love you. Crookshank doesn't. I think he hates me. Why? Because you married me and left the agency. Oh, that's ridiculous. That's why I keep telling him.

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