Dodsworth

Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Screen Guild Play Tonight. Doddsworth. The Starling Players. Walter Houston, Betty Davis, and Nan Sandaland. Tonight, Lady Esther and the Screen Guild Players present Walter Houston, Betty Davis, and Nan Sandaland in the story of Sam Doddsworth and his wife Fran.

This is a saga of the Gilded 20s. When it was the fashion for American leaders of industry To give up their hard one power, sell their business and try to enjoy the money they had made by doing nothing and seeing the world.

Ladies and gentlemen, Doddsworth. Don't look so for Lord, Sam Darling, never seeing each other again is going to be a little hard. But you and I just can't go on together. I love court, Sam. I stand by that.

Just the same, we've had many happy times. Force, after twenty years Fran Doddsworth is leaving her husband to marry a younger man. Rather, she has asked Sam Doddsworth to leave her while she got a divorce, and Sam has agreed.

But even as they sit in the living room of their Vienna hotel apartment, waiting for the bellboy to carry Sam's luggage downstairs to a waiting car, Sam is still trying desperately to hold their marriage together.

They're discussing the separation and the events leading up to it. to have a talk with you before you go. Could the soul of your ability and honor you know? Don't you realize what you're doing, Fran?

Can't you understand that you're smashing something we've been building for 20 years? Come home with me, Fran. We were happy there. Maybe you were happy Sam Doddsworth, but I wasn't. Nothing ever happened in Zenith, Michigan.