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The Heavenly Body

Screen Guild Theater · June 4, 1945 · 29 min · 4,412 words

The transcript of “The Heavenly Body”, an episode of Screen Guild Theater first broadcast June 4, 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, The Heavenly Body. The Starring Players, there's William Powell. This is Anne Savage. And this is Reed Headley. Tonight, Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players and Metro Golden Mayor Star Sprinkled Comedy, The Heavenly Body.

It brings to our stage Anne's Southerness Vicki, William Powell as her husband Bill, and Reed Headley as the Air Raid Warden. The Lady Esther Screen Guild players present the Heavenly Body. Professor William Hitler is a famous astronomer.

He makes with the stars, which means night work of the observatory, and a lonely young wife who's left at home all alone. So while her husband looks through his telescope, she looks through her horoscope, and she studies what the stars predict for her.

Oh, a coldest night we ever had at the observatory. Oh, am I glad to be home, Vicki Darling? No, no, Bill, you mustn't... Don't kiss me, please. What's the matter, baby? Got a cold? No, it's Tuesday.

Oh, sure, and I'm your husband. Remember me? Bill, Darling, I can't have any contact on Tuesday. Until the moon is in square aspect to my Pluto, I mustn't be touched. Oh, is that so? Who told you that?

Well, it says so right here. My planetary emphasis this month will follow my seventh house. So you see I... One moment, my love. Are you trying to say it? I'm I going to understand... Yes, and don't look so horrified.

It's a horoscope. Ha ha! Oh Bill Darling, don't act so hurt. Oh, come here, darling, and let me... No, no, no, no, don't kiss me. It's Tuesday. There you go. You never take me seriously.

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