What happens
Roland Young hosts a special benefit broadcast of the Screen Guild Theater, a variety program with Nelson Eddy, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Anne Sheridan, along with radio's Fibber McGee and Molly. Eddy sings several numbers while Fibber and Molly banter about their home town and their marriage, and Fairbanks and Sheridan are introduced to the pair. The program is broadcast on May 28, 1939, and mixes songs, comedy and sponsor messages, with proceeds going to the Motion Picture Relief Fund.
A radio variety broadcast of the Screen Guild Theater, a benefit program for the Motion Picture Relief Fund, aired in 1939.
Characters: Roland Young, Nelson Eddy, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Fibber McGee, Molly McGee, Anne Sheridan, Oscar Bradley, John Conte
Listen for: Nelson Eddy's songs and the comic exchanges between Fibber McGee, Molly, and the visiting Hollywood guests.
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.