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My Sister Eileen

Screen Guild Theater · October 18, 1943 · 29 min · 4,264 words

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Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Screen Guild Player Tonight. My Sister Eileen. The Starring Players. This is Rosalind Russell. This is Brian Ahood. This is Janet Blair. And this is George Tobias. Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players and the Rolicking Columbia Pictures Comedy.

My Sister Eileen, Starring Rosalind Russell as Ruth Sherwood. Janet Blair as her Sister Eileen. Diana Hearn as Mr. Baker and George Tobias as Mr. Apopelis. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in My Sister Eileen.

My name is Ruth Sherwood, the older Sherwood girl they always called me. And this is My Sister Eileen. Hello all you nice people. I'm terribly happy to know you all. That's what I said. That's My Sister Eileen.

ambitious, of course, but then we both are. Even back home in Columbus, Ohio, Eileen always wanted to act and I wanted to write. But Ruth, you did write just heaps and heaps of stories and for the newspapers too, gosh I'll never forget that review of my play. Oh Ruth, it was a wonderful play. Yes. Too bad you weren't

in it. Well, it wasn't my fault if they put that Annie Wilkerson in at the very last moment. No. But the paper had gone to press already and I thought they'd laugh us right out of town. But they didn't. We fooled them. We just up and left what the Germans call a strategic retreat. Oh, that thrilling trip to New

York. I remember every single bit of it Ruth. Tatching the bus. How'd you following this, Eileen? No trouble at all. The stop in front of your house. It's only a mile or so off my road. And riding in the bus? This seat is more comfortable when you did the back miss. Here, let me show you. And getting off the

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