If She Could Only Cook: Screen Guild Theater (January 26, 1941)

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“If She Could Only Cook” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 26, 1941. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Jim Buchanan, a harassed automobile executive, and Joan Masters, a jobless young woman, answer an ad for a cook and butler and take the positions in the household of racketeer Dan Nolan. Nolan is delighted by Joan's cooking, and his henchman Flash grows suspicious of the couple. Alice Faye, Herbert Marshall and Humphrey Bogart star in this Screen Guild Theater broadcast, a comedy from 1941, originally aired January 26, 1941.

Los Angeles-area automobile company offices, a park, and the Hollywood household of racketeer Dan Nolan

Characters: Jim Buchanan, Joan Masters, Dan Nolan, Flash, Evelyn Fletcher, Reverend Tuttle

Listen for: Joan's cooking praised by Dan Nolan, and Flash's growing suspicion of the new cook and butler

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.