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Model Wife

Screen Guild Theater · October 15, 1945 · 29 min · 4,407 words

The transcript of “Model Wife”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast October 15, 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, Model Wife. The Starring Players. This is Robert Page. This is Martha O'Driskel. And this is Rod Cameron. Tonight, Lady Esther presents The Screen Guild Players in Universal Pictures, Sparkling Domestic Comedy, Model Wife.

It stars Martha O'Driskel as Joan Chambers, Robert Page as her husband Fred. Rod Cameron is Ralph Benson, Jane Morgan as Madam Benson. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players and Model Wife. It's worth working for Fred.

We're saving for when I think of little Josephine. Correction, dear. Little Joseph. Josephine. Josephine! Alright, Donning. At least there's only one way out. We'll forget the odds and count on twins. Well, that's a pretty familiar beginning.

Fred and Joan are young, hurried, and hopeful. Saving and working to make a dream come true. But as it happens, they both work for JJ Benson. And old Madam Benson, who owns the place, has one simple, rigid and inflexible rule.

No woman can properly serve two masters. JJ Benson will not employ married females. So from 9 to 6 every working day, Mrs. Fred Chambers takes off her ring, slips it into her purse and becomes Joan Keating, which is where the complications begin.

Well, well, neat and fast, kind of type I love. I beg your pardon? We're saying you've got a mighty nice carriage. I didn't hear you come in. You must be very good at getting into places.

Even better at getting out. Mother Free? You're muck, or you're Mr. Benson. Ralph Vivian Benson? The Vivian was for a very red chant. She lost her shirt in 1929. I'm afraid you're mother's disturbed, Mr. Benson.

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