Transcripts › Screen Guild Theater
Gentleman Jim
Screen Guild Theater · February 14, 1944 · 29 min · 4,597 words
The transcript of “Gentleman Jim”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast February 14, 1944. 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.
Machine transcript (may contain errors).
Transcript
Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Play Tonight, Gentlemen Jim. The Starring Players, Mrs. Errol Flynn. This is Alexis Smith. This is Ward Baughn, and this is Grant Williams. Tonight, Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in a radio version of the Warner Brothers hit,
Gentlemen Jim, based on the colorful prize ring career of James J. Corbett. Errol Flynn, who plays the title role in the picture, Is starred as Gentleman Jim, Alexis Smith as Vicki Ware, Ward Bond as John L. Sullivan, and Grant Withers as Walter Lowery.
The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in Gentleman Jim. Blaster, take a stance and fight like a decent man.
All right Harry, how's this? Look at that young Jim Praveko. It's a footwork out here. And he's 30 pounds lighter than his brother too. Yeah, yell at Jim Cauvert. Stance and fight. Oh Harry, mine never used to say this is going to hurt you That was a long time ago, of course, back in 1890 in San Francisco, when the corbets
all lived on the wrong side of the tracks. And if you're wondering how a fellow like Jim could get in the swanky Swanky Olympic club, well, I guess I'm the one who ought to know.
You see, my name is Walter Lowery. I work right alongside Jim when we were both tellers in the bank. And one day Vicki Ware came in, the only daughter of old Buck Ware who'd hit it rich in the Comstock load and you can bet Jim Corbett didn't lose any time.
Well, how would you like this, Miss Ware? Large bills? No, all in silver dollars, please. Father's in a poker game over at the Olympic club and they won't play with anything else. Oh, I see. Did you say the Olympic club?
Read the full transcript with Potato Plus
96 more paragraphs, about 27 more minutes of the episode. Potato Plus is every episode on demand from any moment, every transcript in full and unlimited transcript search, for $5 a month.
Potato Plus opens soon: join the listThat was the 60-second preview
Keep listening with Potato Plus: every episode, on demand, from any moment.
Potato Plus opens soon: join the listAll Screen Guild Theater transcripts · Search every transcript · The archive