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Anna Karenina

Screen Guild Theater · October 30, 1944 · 28 min · 3,813 words

The transcript of “Anna Karenina”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast October 30, 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.

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The Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Play Tonight, Anna Carina-na. The Starring Players. This is Ingrid Bergman. And this is Gregory Pick. Tonight, Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in Metro Golden Mayor's stirring, challenging story, Anna Carina-na from the Immortal Novel by Count Leo Tolstoy.

This star's Gregory Peck is Count Alexis Bronska, an Ingrid Bergman in the title role, the Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in Anna Carina. Russia, the old Russia, brilliant and glittering, Russia in the days of the Tsar, a lovely old country house near St. Petersburg, and in the Candlelit study, an elderly officer in guardsman's

Uniform speaks to a rather puzzled young man. Sergey Karinin, you are wondering perhaps why I have asked you here. Yes, Major Jossfen, I am. In one way it is very simple. Today you come of age.

And today this house is yours. Minds, sir, this house? I order a counter-lexus fronsky for whom I act. But I don't understand. Ah, you will. I have here a letter. It was written by your mother, Anna Carina.

My mother? I am instructed to read it to you. It is a beautiful letter. Many times through the years I have read it to myself. And sometimes, words, I almost hear her voice. Such a soft voice.

So gentle. Seeing the things that were in her heart. Alexei my darling, my darling. It is very late now and I am alone. I am alone. The fire is almost spent and shadows leap and dance across the room.

Somehow I think the shadows stand still only when they settle on my heartless. And you must read it and decide. You must decide what is to be for us. Darling, we have found so much together, you and I, and lost so much.

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