Take a Letter Darling: Screen Guild Theater (November 9, 1942)

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“Take a Letter Darling” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast November 9, 1942. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Tom Bernie, a job applicant with no advertising experience, is hired by Miss McGregor, head of an advertising firm, as her secretary. She sends him to secure a jealous client's trust by posing as her fiancé at a dinner party. Later she pressures him to win the advertising account of Jonathan Caldwell, a man who dislikes women, and Bernie travels to Raleigh with the wealthy Ethel Caldwell. The episode is an office romance comedy from the Screen Guild Theater, broadcast on November 9, 1942, with Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant and Edward Everett Horton starring.

An advertising agency's offices in New York, a dinner party, and a Southern tobacco company's home in Raleigh, North Carolina

Characters: Tom Bernie, Miss McGregor, Mr. Atwater, Mr. Vernon, Mrs. French, Jonathan Caldwell, Ethel Caldwell, Mike

Listen for: The exchanges between Bernie and McGregor as her attraction to him slowly becomes visible

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.