MOVIES AND MOVIE STARS ON RADIO

Originally broadcast on WNIB
Saturday, October 9, 1999

SCREEN GUILD PLAYERS (1-7-46) “Lost Weekend” starring Ray Milland, Jane Wyman and Frank Faylen in the radio version of the 1945 Academy Award winning film. Milland repeats his Oscar-winning role in this unrelent­ing drama of alcoholism. Lady Esther Prod­ucts, CBS. (29 min)

LUX RADIO THEATRE (12-2-40) “Knute Rockne, All-American” starring Pat O’Brien, Ronald Reagan, Donald Crisp and Fay Wray in the radio adaptation of the 1940 film, the bi­ography of the legendary Notre Dame football coach. Reagan delivers his memorable “Win one for the Gipper” line. Cecil B. DeMille hosts. Lux Soap, CBS. (59 min in three segments). Those Were The Days listeners have voted LUX RADIO THEATRE one of the 20 Best Old Time Radio Shows of the 20th Century.

SCREEN DIRECTORS’ PLAYHOUSE (8-12-49) “Jezebel” starring Bette Davis in her Acad­emy Award winning role in this radio versior of the 1938 film. A Southern belle goes toe far to make her fiance jealous. Cast include: Gerald Mohr, Paul Frees, Ralph Morgan. Pabsi Blue Ribbon Beer, NBC. (31 min)

SCREEN DIRECTORS’ ASSIGNMENT (1-9-49) “Stagecoach” starring John Wayne, Clair: Trevor and Ward Bond in the radio adaptation of the 1939 film. Passengers on a stagecoach travel through Indian country. First show in the series that was later called Screen Direc­tors’ Playhouse. Sustaining, NBC. (30 min).

OUR SPECIAL GUEST is movie historian and frequent Nostalgia Digest contributor BOB KO­LOSOSKI who will talk about these films and the role that movies played on radio in the 20th Century.