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A Song for Clotilde

Screen Guild Theater · February 19, 1939 · 29 min · 3,925 words

The transcript of “A Song for Clotilde”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast February 19, 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 oil companies in presenting the seventh in a new series of programs. Refused musical comedies and dramatic shows, all the varied entertainment forms of Hollywood.

So welcome all of you to the Motion Picture Star Zone program. Welcome to the golf screen guild show. With Tyler Brooke, Jeanette McDonald, Robert Taylor, Charles Winninger, Oscar Bradley, and Hollywood's favorite master ceremonies, Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the seventh of the Motion Picture Stars own programs, The Golf Screen Guild Show. As you know each week will present a different

type show with a different cast of stars. All of them written, directed and acted by the greatest names in the motion picture industry, but the benefit of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Last week it was a drama. Next week a review starring Burns and Allen, Ruth Davis, Melvin Douglas and Shirley Ross. Tonight, the musical comedy, a song for Clotilda, directed

by Robert Z. Leonard and written by Ralph Blott under the musical direction of Oscar Bradley. Tonight we meet Jeanette McDonald as the Princess Quotilla. Her uncle Keoh played by Charles Wininger, Prince Lothar, alias Johnny Prince, played by Robert Taylor, and Tyler Brooke as Jan, his personal servants.

Springtime, Paris, the Princess Quotilla of her piano is unaware of an audience composed of the concierge Jean-Darm's military and boulevard under her window, or that her uncle, Tio, fire in his eye in a newspaper in his hand is hurrying up the stairs.

What that devil is the meaning of this? A road on good young.

Oh, this advertisement in the newspaper. Lady, well-born, young, beautiful, will devote an hour each evening to any gentleman with credentials. Conversation, dancing, a sophisticated view of the world. Fee 500 francs. Address until the 82 Roodila Matam.

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