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Flesh and Fantasy

Screen Guild Theater · April 23, 1945 · 29 min · 3,825 words

The transcript of “Flesh and Fantasy”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast April 23, 1945. 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 Lady Esther Screen Guild Play Tonight. Flesh and Fantasy. The starring players. Mrs. Ella Raines. And this is Charles Weighing. Tonight Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in a strange and provocative story

from the Universal Picture Flesh and Fantasy. An absorbing and romantic expedition into the world of dreams. It stars Charles Boyet at Paul Gaspar. and Ella reigns as Joan Stanley. Familiar thing to me, as I stepped out on the wire, the crowd, the faces filled with fear,

I had gone to accept them and take them for granted. I was relaxed, poised, sure of myself. I was the greatest power, until I had a dream. At night, we were playing our last performance in London.

I was in my dressing room. There was still some time before my act would be called, so I stretched out on my couch and I fell asleep. I fell asleep and I had a dream, all familiar things.

The drum, the sea of faces looking up at me. Only something this time, something was different. One face stood out from all the rest. A girl, a lovely girl, wore two diamond earrings, shaped like tiny halves.

The eyes were filled with fear for me. And suddenly, I felt that fear myself. The wild blurred. I swayed. I lost my balance. And I fell. And as I fell, Mr. Casper. Mr. Casper, sir.

Oh, oh, yeah. What's the matter? You have a dream, sir? Yes. You're on a five-minute, Mr. Casper. Isn't I ought to brush your coat off? Please. Yeah, we all have dreams, sir. Back to time, I had dreamed my wife had up and left me.

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