Vivacious Lady: Screen Guild Theater (April 7, 1940)

“Vivacious Lady” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 7, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Peter Morgan, a botany professor at Old Sharon University, meets Francie, a nightclub singer, while searching for his cousin Keith in New York. Peter and Francie are drawn to each other, and Peter proposes to her on a long ride in Central Park. Their plans run into trouble when they arrive in Old Sharon. The Screen Guild Theater presents this 1940 comedy with Ginger Rogers, Fred MacMurray and Charles Coburn as part of its weekly series, broadcast on April 7, 1940.

New York's 52nd Street nightclub and Central Park, then the college town of Old Sharon, with its campus and university grounds

Characters: Peter Morgan, Francie, Keith, President Morgan, Helen, Eleanor Morgan

Listen for: Peter's proposal to Francie in Central Park and the confrontation between Francie and Helen at the campus prom

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.