Sweethearts: Screen Guild Theater (December 15, 1947)

“Sweethearts” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast December 15, 1947. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Glen Marlowe and Ernest Lane, the singing stars of Victor Herbert's Sweetheart on Broadway, are feeling worn out after six years of performances and Felix Lehman, their producer, is worried about losing them to Hollywood. Glen and Ernest hear an offer from Hollywood and decide to leave the show and move to California. Their plans shift when a playwright tries to use their own love notes to wreck their marriage. The Screen Guild Theater presents this 1947 broadcast, first aired on December 15, 1947, and it stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy.

Broadway in New York and the Hotel Mirable, with a later plan to move to Hollywood, California

Characters: Glen Marlowe, Ernest Lane, Felix Lehman, Norman Trumpet, Leo Crump, Mrs. Lane, Billy

Listen for: Leo Crump's pitch about using Glen's love notes to make Ernest jealous

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.