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Can We Forget

Screen Guild Theater · January 22, 1939 · 29 min · 4,005 words

The transcript of “Can We Forget”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast January 22, 1939. 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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Welcome everybody. Tonight your neighborhood good golf dealer joins the golf companies in presenting the third in a new series of programs Refuse musical comedies and dramatic shows all the varied entertainment forms of Hollywood So welcome all of you to the motion picture stars own program the golf screen gill show With Betty Davis Robert Montgomery as a raffle Louise beaver Oscar Bradley

and Hollywood's favorite master of ceremonies, George Murphy. Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the third Screen Guild show, Hollywood's own program written, directed and acted by the greatest names in the motion picture industry for the benefit of the motion picture relief fund.

Each week we present a different type show with a different cast of stars. Last week a musical comedy, next week a review starring Mary Boland, Marlena Dietrich, Frank Morgan and Cliff Nizarro. Tonight it's a drama, can we forget?

Directed by Frank Capra and written by Mary McCall Jr. Under the musical direction of Oscar Bradley, you're invited to a gay party at an exclusive hotel on Park Avenue where the most photographed, the most discussed, the most envy David Hott of the season, Hilde Rutherford, played by Betty Davis, is having her coming out party.

Among her many admirers in the stag line is a young man named Alan Barker, played by Robert Montgomery. Dancing with Hill at the moment is Paul Ferguson, enacted by Basil Rathbun. Lights, music, kretan. Now if the stag line doesn't discover the telco for a minute, perhaps I'll be allowed a few steps with you.

Oh, it's a lovely party, Hilda. Do you think so really, Paul? Well, don't you? Oh, it's wonderful to me. I love the whole silly business. Being rushed, being stared at, makes up for all the black times of childhood.

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