What happens
Screenwriter Jerry Gates and writer Donna Brown work on a script at the Luxor studio after a flop, with producer Manny Mason pressing them to finish. Their collaboration grows tense as Lisa Garin, the film's intended star, interferes with the screenplay and her own dialogue. Their relationship becomes entangled with the production, with gossip columnist Red Riddle hovering around the set. The episode is a comedy drama from the Screen Guild Theater, featuring Ginger Rogers, Margaret Lindsey, Clark Gable and Spencer Charters, first broadcast on October 1, 1939. Donna and Jerry's arguments and misunderstandings escalate into a public spectacle.
Hollywood, at the Luxor studio, a Hollywood apartment, and Earl Carroll's
Characters: Jerry Gates, Donna Brown, Manny Mason, Lisa Garin, Red Riddle
Listen for: The bickering over the screenplay between Jerry and Donna, and the arrival of gossip columnist Red Riddle.
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.