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Variety Review 2

Screen Guild Theater · January 29, 1939 · 29 min · 4,163 words

The transcript of “Variety Review 2”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast January 29, 1939. 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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Welcome everybody. Tonight, your neighborhood Good Golf dealer joins the golf companies in presenting the fourth in a new series of programs. Reviews, musical comedies, and dramatic shows, all the varied entertainment forms of Hollywood. So welcome all of you to the Motion Picture Star's own program, The Golf Screen Guild Show.

With Mary Poland, Marlena Dietrich, Frank Morgan, Cliff Nissaro, Oscar Bradley, and Hollywood's favorite master of ceremonies, George Perkins. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the fourth Screen Guild show, Hollywood's own program written, directed and acted by the greatest names in the motion picture industry.

For the benefit of the motion picture relief fund, each week represent a different type show with a different cast of stars. Last week a drama, next week a review starring Bing Crosby, Hugh Herbert, Jane Withers, and the Yacht Club Boys.

Tonight, it's a variety program directed by W.S. Van Dyke and written by Ken Englund, Under the musical direction of Oscar Bradley. And now, let's get on with the show. Now that's an excellent idea. Here I am, ladies and gentlemen.

Well, it's Frank Morgan. It's got my mouth. Hello Frank. Hehehe. Wow. Thank you. Thank you and good evening. As the author, director, narrator, and star of tonight's program, I'd like to welcome you one and all.

Hey, hey, wait a minute, Frank. Wait a minute. What about me? Oh, well, that's what you're welcome to. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Look Frank, I'm George Murphy, remember? Uh, Murphy. Uh, Murphy.

Yeah, the name's familiar, but I don't know what to do with your face. Aw, come on, Frank, you remember me? I was on your program once. Oh, Murphy, of course! Well, it's a pleasure to have you on my program again.

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