Adorable: Screen Guild Theater (October 28, 1946)

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“Adorable” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast October 28, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

In the mythical kingdom of Hipsburg-Leggstot, between Munich and Vienna, a young man named Carl meets a manicurist named Mitzi at a servants' ball. Carl later learns that the Princess Marie Christine, who has just returned from school in Paris, is the woman he has been thinking about. Carl is a lieutenant in the royal army, and the princess's brother, the Prime Minister, takes a keen interest in her behavior. The story follows Carl and Mitzi as their lives become tangled with the court's plans for the princess. Adorable is an episode of the Screen Guild Theater, first aired on October 28, 1946, and it stars Shirley Temple, Peter Lawford and Charles Coburn.

The mythical kingdom of Hipsburg-Leggstot, in Central Europe between Munich and Vienna

Characters: Carl, Mitzi, Princess Marie Christine, Prime Minister, Anna

Listen for: Carl's first meeting with Mitzi at the servants' ball, and the Prime Minister's plans for the princess

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.