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The Campbell Playhouse · November 26, 1939 · 41 min · 7,737 words
The transcript of “Dodsworth”, an episode of The Campbell Playhouse first broadcast November 26, 1939. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Orson Welles on the Air plays The Campbell Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Hello, hello friends. Yeah, I just signed. I'm an ex-automobile manufacturer and huh. Okay, Fran, I'll take myself to your evening. Sure I'll be home early, Fran. I'm just dropping in to say goodbye to the boys in the assembly line. Goodbye, Fran.
Okay. Yes, it's Douglas. While we're gone, whatever you do, don't use my good lace paper card. Put them on the shelf in my... ten? Hey, Fran, your old retired hustle. Everything is settled. A revelation motor company, Samuel Dotworth, president and found it became the property of United Motors this very afternoon. How do you feel?
A little lost. Guess the way a man is supposed to feel is just sold 25 years of his life. Well, you got to expect to feel kind of lost for a while. I knew what I was doing when I sold France. You mustn't feel lost then. Life is going to be fuller than ever in
Richard for both of us. We're free. I'm just as keen on this trip as you are, Fran. I'm ranting to go. I've always wanted to see London and Paris. All it is got to mean much more than a trip to a sand. It's got to be a new life all over from the very
We're going to start over. Well, I'd almost sell this house so we wouldn't have anything to tie us down. Wait a minute, Fran. This is our home. We've built ourselves into it. I'd more to get us some new selves now.
Why, if we weren't tied to this deadly half-baked Midwestern house... No, Fran, don't start knocking zenas. I'm not knocking zenas, Sam. But I'm thinking of my freedom. I want some lovely things I've got a right to.
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