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Screen Guild Theater · August 12, 1946 · 30 min · 5,039 words
The transcript of “The Devil and Miss Jones”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast August 12, 1946. 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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presents the Screen Guild Players. The Lady Esther Screen Guild play tonight. The devil and Miss Jones. The starring players. Mrs. Van Johnson. Mrs. Donna Reed. This is Guy Kibbe. Tonight, Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players and a delightful RKO story about the richest man in the world, the devil and Miss Jones. Guy Kibbe
plays the rich man JP Merrick. Donna Reed plays Miss Jones and Van Johnson plays her boyfriend Joe O'Brien. The Lady Esther Screen Guild players in the devil and Miss Jones. As the richest man in the world JP Merrick had almost forgotten he owned the Nealey department store until the day the store's unhappy employees hung him in
epigee. The next day the store had a new employee. The personnel manager's confidential files describe the new employee as Thomas Higgins a private detective hired by the Merrick Enterprises but when Higgins reached his home after his first day in the store his butler greeted him with good evening Mr. Merrick good evening George did anyone at the store suspect who you are
Mr. Merrick no one a personnel manager thinks I'm a detective and the rest of the employees regard me as an old puffer can you imagine that George me a puffer Well, congratulations, sir. Boy or girl.
You've been listening to Abbott and Costello again. Where was I? You just become a pop-asser. Oh, yes. In fact, one of my new associates, Miss Mary Jones was so certain I was impoverished that she forced me to share her lunch.
We had tuna fish pop-overs. Tuna fish pop-overs? Yes, tuna fish pop-overs. And if I'm not sick tonight or tomorrow at the latest, my fancy Dr. Schindler from Vienna, who wish he was back in Vienna.
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