Forsaking All Others: Lux Radio Theatre (February 28, 1938)

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“Forsaking All Others” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast February 28, 1938. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jeff Tingle, best man at a Park Avenue wedding, is secretly in love with bride Mary Clay, who is marrying Dylan Todd. On the morning of the ceremony, Mary and Dylan share a tender moment, but Dylan's former lover Connie Barnes unexpectedly returns to New York, and tension rises among the friends gathered at the Clay home. This Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the Edward Roberts and Frank Cabot stage and screen hit stars Betty Davis as Mary and Joel McCrea as Jeff, with Anderson Lawler as Dylan and Leona Maricle as Constance. It first aired on February 28, 1938.

Park Avenue, New York City, in the days before a society wedding

Characters: Mary Clay, Jeff Tingle, Dylan Todd, Constance Barnes, Paula, Shep, Miss Kramer

Listen for: The sudden return of Constance Barnes and the way Mary reacts to it on the morning of her wedding

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.