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Jezebel
Screen Guild Theater · October 27, 1940 · 30 min · 4,292 words
The transcript of “Jezebel”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast October 27, 1940. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Guild Theater plays Screen Guild Theater free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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You know, Arthur, Jeffrey Lin, Mary Nash. The Gulf Screen Guild Theater. Your host, the director of the Stars Own Theater, Roger Pryor. Good evening, everyone. Your neighborhood good goath dealer and the goath oil companies welcome you to the Gulf Screen Guild Theater.
Tonight, the Gulf Theater Stars, Gene Arthur, Jeffrey Lin and Mary Nash in Jezebel. Jezebel, one of the most brilliant motion pictures of the past decade. Jean Arthur's portrayal of the title role is her first radio appearance of the year, chalking up another Gulf Theater first.
You meet all your favorite stars here in the Gulf Theater, because this is truly the star's own theater. For, as you know, the money that would ordinarily go to the stars who appear here, Gulf gives instead to the Motion Picture Relief Fund to help provide for the members of the motion picture industry who can no longer take care of themselves.
And now tonight's story, Jezebel, especially adapted for radio by Charles Tazwell, with Frank Duhrs conducting Oscar Bradley's go for this. Then applause, ladies and gentlemen, for our stars who have just entered from the wings.
They take their places at the microphone and the play begins, with Gene Author as Julie, Jeff Brillen as Press, and Mary Nash as that bell. This is the story of a red red. It was worn by my niece, Julie Martin, at the Mardi Grasball in New Orleans.
The year was 1850. I remember that very well, because 51 was the year of the terrible yellow-feed epidemic. Julie was engaged to Preston Dillard, President of the Dillard Bank and the cats of New Orleans.
The story of the red dress really begins on the day Julie and I drove down to the bank and much against my wishes you listen to about our culture defined and tell me now there was mister dulis i believe you're tired that but you'll have to explain to mister dulis that it's impossible for me to leave
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