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Rebecca

Screen Guild Theater · November 18, 1948 · 29 min · 4,277 words

The transcript of “Rebecca”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast November 18, 1948. 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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From Hollywood, Loretta Young and John Lund in the great screen classic, Rebecca. Yes, from Hollywood, the screen guild players brought to you each Thursday night by... Camel Cigarettes! How mild can a cigarette be? Smoke camels and see!

Prove for yourself what noted throat specialists reported in the coast to coast 30-day smoking test of hundreds of men and women. In this test, the doctors reported not one single case of throat irritation due to smoking camels.

Thursday night, Screen Guild night. When camel cigarettes bring you your favorite stars in the greatest motion picture rolls. Tonight it's a famous best-selling novel, so magnificently transferred to the screen by David O. Selznik that it was undisputed winner of an Academy Award.

In answer to frequent and insistent requests, the Screen Guild players present... ...Ribeca, starring John Lund, and Academy Award winner, Lorelle Young. Last night I went to Mandelie again. But even as I saw the Iron Gate, the winding drive, and the Great Old House itself, I knew, as dreamers always do, that it was just a dream.

Mandelie is no more. We can never go back that much as certain. And yet somehow in my secret thoughts, I do go back. To the strange days of my life which began for me in the south of France, I was very young and very poor.

And because I had no family of my own, I had taken employment as the paid companion of a rich old woman. That's how I happened to be in Monte Carlo. And that's how I happened to meet Max in the winter.

I was walking along the cliffs one day above the sea. I saw a man step toward the edge, to jump, I thought, and almost without knowing that I cried out, NO! NO STOP! What the devil are you shouting about? Who are you? What are you staring at?

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