Mrs Moonlight: Lux Radio Theatre (June 26, 1939)

“Mrs Moonlight” is an episode of Lux Radio Theatre, the old-time radio show, first broadcast June 26, 1939. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Sarah Moonlight, a young Englishwoman, receives a necklace called the Dreeard on her wedding eve in 1881, and makes a wish that she may never grow older. The story follows Sarah and her husband Tom Moonlight through the years, as Sarah's youthful appearance begins to trouble her and those around her. Tom's cousin Edith, who has long loved him, watches the household, and the couple's daughter Jane grows toward marriage with her own suitor. Janet Gaynor and George Brent star in this Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of the Broadway play, broadcast on June 26, 1939.

England, 1881, and later years in the Moonlight household

Characters: Sarah Moonlight, Tom Moonlight, Edith Jones, Minnie, Jane Moonlight, Percy Medling, Willie Ragnell, Joy

Listen for: Sarah's wish on the Dreeard necklace and her growing fear that she will never age

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.