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Screen Guild Theater · November 8, 1943 · 29 min · 4,656 words
The transcript of “George Washington Slept Here”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast November 8, 1943. 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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Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Screen Guild Play Tonight, George Washington Slept here. The Starling Players, Jack Carson.
And this is Carol Adams. Aunt Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in a radio adaptation of Warner Brothers' Rolleking Comedy, George Washington Slept here, by George E. Kaufman and Mosshart. It stars Jack Carson as Bill Fuller and Carol Landis as his wife Connie.
The Lady Esther, Screen Guild Players and George Washington slept here. We are Bill. Miles in the city. Isn't it wonderful? My noise, no smoke. Well, I like this city. I even like smoke.
Smoke makes a city seem so lived in. Ah, just smell that air. Smells like a damp dog. No, Bill, look, that's our new house. I knew, honey, are you telling me that that mauff eaten termite-ridden pile of rotten boards is our house?
You mean without saying a word, you've taken our hard-earned money and bought that rabbit hutch? Oh, Bill. Honey, I think you've lost your mind. Oh, Bill, you're going to love this. It's hundreds of years old. Think of it, darling.
George Washington actually slept in his very house. Yeah? With all those cracks in the wall, there's a one of the wind didn't blow him out of bed. I'm looking for a bed. Oh, look at this living room.
200 years ago it was full of colonial soldiers. If only these walls could talk. Well, I can't, and I want to go back to town. Oh, oh, hello, Mr. Kemper. This is my husband. Howdy.
I've been showing him to the house. Be careful upstairs, Blauss, ma'am. One of them caved in last month. Just up and gave away. Well, Mr. Kemper is the caretaker. I see. Have you been here 200 years too, Mr. Kemper?
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