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The La Marr Matter - Ep 1

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar · March 26, 1956 · 14 min · 1,900 words

The transcript of “The La Marr Matter - Ep 1”, an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar first broadcast March 26, 1956. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar plays Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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From Hollywood, it's time now for Johnny Dollar Oh hi Pat how southern California my vacation on expense account. I love it Now wait a minute you promise full expenses Soon as I clear up to Lamar case one okay expenses on it now Yeah, Pat this is a case that'll make your hair curl

Tonight and every weekday night Bob Bailey in the transcribed adventures of the man with the action packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Oh, it's truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau, Hartford, Connecticut.

The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Lamar matter. Expense accounts, forget it. I'm on vacation. As far from Hartford, Connecticut, center of the insurance business as I can get. Yeah, I'm in La Jolla, California.

And I'm staying in a big ritzy motel called El Cressenta. Alone. Oh, there is a girl down here. Lot of them in fact. But one in particular. Ronnie Lamar, her name is. Sounds like somebody in show business, doesn't it?

But she isn't. Tall, 5 feet 8, brunette. Pretty is the devil. And I gave it a line that my so-called business back East consists of nothing more exciting than running a filling station. How can you afford to come all the way out here to California for a vacation?

To say nothing of staying at the Alkra Center. Rich Uncle, Bonnie. Dye and left me a couple of thousands to do with as I see fit. This is the way I see fit. Only a couple of thousand.

Mm-hmm. Gee, that's too bad. A couple of hundred thousand, I might really fall for you. Oh, Bonnie, how can you? Mm-hmm. Here I thought these last three days and evenings with you or do solely to my overwhelming personal charms.

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