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  Lux Radio Theater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lux Radio Theater, one of the genuine classic radio anthology series (NBC Blue Network, 1934-1935; CBS 1935-1955), adapted first Broadway stage and then (and especially) films to hour-long live radio presentations and became the standard by which future radio and early television anthologies would be judged.
Lux Radio Theater even presented an adaptation of the film version of The Life of Riley, featuring William Bendix---as the Brooklyn-born, California-transplanted aircraft worker he already made famous in the long-running radio series (and eventual television hit) of the same name.
Mercury Theatre on the Air---which eventually made Orson Welles a force to be reckoned with, especially with the commotion his broadcast of War of the Worlds provoked---was initially a summer replacement series for Lux Radio Theater.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lux_Radio_Theatre   (638 words)

  
 Thrilling Days of Yesteryear : Thrilling Days of Yesteryear
During its nearly twenty years on radio, Lux was the outlet for prime radio drama, regularly presenting Hollywood’s top stars in lavish audio recreations of top films—like Humphrey Bogart in The Caine Mutiny and Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz, to name a couple of examples.
The first of the Lux broadcasts I sampled yesterday eve was a nice adaptation of the classic 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street, broadcast December 22, 1947 and showcasing four of the film’s stars: Maureen O’Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, and Edmund Gwenn (who deservedly won a 1947 Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role).
Some of the Lux adaptations do feature comedians in radio versions of their films (a good example being Bob Hope and Lucille Ball in Fancy Pants from September 10, 1951); those are kind of neat especially if they get some good ad-libs going.
blogs.salon.com /0003139/2003/12/09.html   (874 words)

  
 Special Collections Manuscripts - Margaret Herrick Library - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Lux Radio Theatre (1934-1955) was created through a collaboration between the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency and its client Lever Brothers, maker of Lux toilet soap.
With the advent of television, Lux Video Theatre premiered in the fall of 1950 and ran through 1957.
A 1982 Lux Radio Theatre Inventory and Reference Guide by Anthony Slide is available in the pamphlets file (PAM 993).
www.oscars.org /mhl/sc/luxradio_103.html   (624 words)

  
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THE LUX RADIO THEATRE [2/3/47] CBS "National Velvet" Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney, with Donald Crisp.
THE LUX RADIO THEATRE (12/12/38) CBS "The Scarlet Pimpernel" with Olivia DeHaviland and Leslie Howard.
LUX RADIO THEATRE (5/24/43) CBS "Hitler's Children" with Bonita Granville, Otto Kruger, Kent Smith, and Walter Reed.
www.heritageradio.com /catalog.txt   (13401 words)

  
 Podcast.net - The Podcast Directory
lux radio theatre, grand duchess and the waiter
lux radio theatre, grand duchess and the waiter 12/07/1936
lux radio theatre, polly of the circus 11/30/1936
www.podcast.net /show/3746   (901 words)

  
 Lux Radio Theater
In October of 1934, "Lux Radio Theater" debuted in New York on NBC's Blue radio network.
With an endless supply of hit films scripts and an audience of more than 40 million, Lux enjoyed a prosperous run until the curtain fell in 1956.
Culminating in a performance on Friday, November 24th 2000, our show was an enormous undertaking- but one that, at least for me, was a labor of love.
www.shawnandcolleen.com /lux/main.html   (193 words)

  
 Tallulah Bankhead - Radio
n 1950, the advent of television was not only causing concern in the film industry but radio was beginning to feel the effect as well.
She had guested in various radio programs in the past but had never done anything on an ongoing basis before.
She was nervous and didn't really know what to expect or what her duty actually was so she approached the show with guarded anticipation.
home.hiwaay.net /~oliver/tbradio.htm   (454 words)

  
 Performers F- J
Lux Radio Theatre “Phantom of the Opera” w/ N. Eddy, B. Rathbone.
Lux Radio Theatre “The Keys of the Kingdom” w/ R. Colman.
Lux Radio Theatre “Anna and the King of Siam” w/ I. Dunne.
www.fairpickings.com /f-jlist.htm   (9927 words)

  
 Basil Rathbone: Master of Stage and Screen - Radio Shows
Monitor (NBC radio series that was broadcast from June 12, 1955 to January 26, 1974).
These Sherlock Holmes radio episodes have been available on audiocassette from Choices Direct (in the UK) and Amazon.com (search by author Anthony Boucher for a complete listing).
Radio Revisited has several Rathbone radio programs on CD available to purchase, including some of the Lux Radio Theater and Cavalcade of America programs.
www.basilrathbone.net /radio   (2687 words)

  
 The Finest Collection of Old Time Radio From Lux Radio Theatre & More: Drama, Comedy & Others.
Radio drama was the prevalent entertainment form for most Americans for over twenty years.
One of the most important and most influential of the radio dramatic anthology series was the Lux Radio Theatre, which began in 1934, and ended in 1955, well into the television era.
That it was among radio's finest dramatic series there can be no doubt, as Lux's staff had the efficiency to turn out a polished program every week, and the creativity to make many of these shows brilliantly effective.
www.fairpickings.com   (401 words)

  
 Soap Detectives: January 2006 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Part of that donation was used to purchase the Lux Radio Theatre collection, which will be podcast every weekend from now on.
For over two decades, The Lux Radio Theatre presented radio versions of contemporary hit movies with the biggest names in cinema playing the leading roles.
The Lux Radio Theatre first went on the air in 1934 with plays from New York.
www.soapdetectives.com /archives/2006/01   (1366 words)

  
 Lux Video Theatre: William Faulkner's Scripts
However, ads survive for other Lux Video Theatre programs such as the one above (1954), which appeared in Hollywood Reporter and Daily Variety, another Hollywood newspaper.
Lever Brothers sponsored Lux Video Theatre a popular program on CBS, then NBC from 1950 to 1957.
The Hartman Center holds microfilms of most of the 337 Lux Video Theatre scripts as well as the 926 Lux Radio Theatre programs, and many other early shows created for radio and TV by JWT.
library.duke.edu /specialcollections/hartman/guides/lux.html   (178 words)

  
 GRW SCRIPT: Lux Radio Theater
In tonight's Lux Radio Theature version of "The Clock" we show you how it happened, and we bring you Judy Garland playing her original screen role, co-stared with John Hodiak.
That the Lux Radio Theatre has again been voted the best dramatic program of the year by Radio Daily's poll of radio editors from coast to coast.
Our Lux Radio Theatre production of "The Clock" has come to you with the good wishes of the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, the beauty care that nine out of ten Hollywood stars use to help keep their complexions beautifully clear and smooth.
www.genericradio.com /show.php?id=277ae7c24b7ffc3a   (5397 words)

  
 Radio Hall of Fame - Lux Radio Theatre, Adventure / Drama
For two decades, The Lux Radio Theatre presented radio versions of movie attractions, current or coming, while the biggest names in cinema played the leading roles.
The Lux Radio Theatre debuted in 1934, dramatizing Broadway plays from New York.
The Lux Radio Theatre was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
www.radiohof.org /adventuredrama/luxradio.html   (208 words)

  
 Copyright 2005 J. David Goldin
The story was produced on The Lux Radio Theatre (as "Strawberry Blonde") on March 23, 1942 (see cat.
The script was previously used on "The Lux Radio Theatre" on January 13, 1936.
The program includes a preview of the new Lux show, "The Life and Loves Of Dr. Susan." Cecil B. De Mille is his own intermission guest and recalls how he wrote the screen play for this evening's story.
radiogoldindex.com /cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Lux+Radio+Theatre   (4620 words)

  
 Old Time Radio for downloading or listening online
A place where comedians can make you laugh without using bad language, detectives can get their man without killing everyone they come into contact with, and where your imagination is used to the full and your eye-balls are given a well-earned rest.
RUSC is an Aladdin's Cave of classic radio broadcasts from the 1930s, 40s and 50s for you to download and listen to at your leisure.
Each old radio show on RUSC is in a standard MP3 format so that they can be downloaded to your PC and enjoyed again and again.
rusc.com /old-time-radio-series/old-time-radio-LuxRadioTheatre.html   (1347 words)

  
 Tracy and Hepburn On Radio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Old radio shows are often distributed in bulk; one CD may contain 50 or more MP3s of hour-long programs within a single series.
Here are the radio programs on which Tracy and/or Hepburn appeared and what I know about them and their availability.
Lux Radio Theater, Screen Guild Theater, and Theater Guild of the Air all broadcast dramas and comedies.
www.brisbin.net /Tracy-Hepburn/radio.html   (2422 words)

  
 Lux Video Theatre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
[1954 alternate summer title: "Lux Summer Theatre"] (CBS TV Primetime, 1950 - 1954; NBC TV Primetime, 1954 - 1957) ["Lux Radio Theatre" began on the NBC Radio Blue Network in 1934-35, and continued on CBS 1935-54, and ended back on NBC during in the 1954-55 season.] [Cecil B. DeMille hosted the radio series from 1936-45.
But the NBC hosts were James Mason, Otto Krueger, and Gordon McCrae.] [The summer-time version was called "Lux Summer Theatre", and was hosted by announcer Ken Carpenter.]
Theme 1 (on CBS, 1950-54): "Lux [Radio] Theatre [Signature]"
www.classicthemes.com /50sTVThemes/themePages/luxVideoTheatre.html   (132 words)

  
 Radio Shows - The Ultimate Cary Grant Pages
Stars were not paid for their appearance, but their fees were given to Motion Picture Relief Fund to build a home for those stars who could no longer take care of themselves.
Theatre of Romance; CBS, 1944-1946; Originally broadcast from New York, this series featured romantic stories and "stars of proven romantic appeal." It moved to Hollywood in 1945 and was sponsored by Colgate.
After the success of Grant's film, it was decided that a radio show based on the movie might be successful, too.
www.carygrantradio.com   (806 words)

  
 It's a Wonderful Life
In fact the popularity of Lux soap is what makes it possible to present such entertainment as Frank Capra's great production, "It's a Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart as George, Donna Reed as Mary Hatch, and Victor Moore as Clarence.
I hope our audience will be seeing that lovely Lux complexion of yours in a screen close-up one of these days.
S-P-R-Y! JOHN MILTON KENNEDY: Be sure to listen in again next Monday night to hear the Lux Radio Theater presentation of "Leave Her to Heaven." This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
geocities.com /emruf2/otr/lux3.html   (7449 words)

  
 Filmography - Radio Broadcast
Grant admitted he had "mike fright" for many of his early radio appearances.
The show lasted only a few months (it was canceled on the July 9, 1939) and became one of the most talked about failures on the radio.
After the succes of Grant's film, it was decided taht a radio show based on the movie and starring Grant and his wife might be successful too.
www.fortunecity.com /lavendar/mockingbird/159/movies-radiof.htm   (563 words)

  
 Miracle on 34th Street
These movies for the ears were every bit as entertaining as their screen counterparts, using the original scores and a host of sound effects to create a version of the movie-colorized only by the imaginations of the listeners.
This is the complete and unedited original radio adaptation of the classic movie Miracle on 34th Street as heard on the Peabody Award Winning Radio Series, the Lux Radio Theatre.
A Lux Radio Theatre radio adaptation of the 1947 20th Century Fox film that put Kris Kringle on trial in New York City to prove that he is indeed the real Santa Claus.
www.audiobooksonline.com /shopsite/1570191735.html   (226 words)

  
 Classic TV & Movie Hits - Lux Video Theatre / Summer Video Theatre
After 16 years on radio as a weekly dramatic series, Lux Radio Theatre became Lux Video Theatre on Octover 2, 1950.
When the series moved to NBC in the fall of 1954, there were a number of changes in the format.
The length of each telecast was expanded to a full hour, a regular host was added to the program, and adaptations of theatrical films became the principal type of material presented.
www.classictvhits.com /show.php?id=746   (396 words)

  
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lux radio theatre, angels with dirty faces 05/22/1939
lux radio theatre, mr deeds goes to town 02/01/1937
www.botar.us /real.rss   (1622 words)

  
 RadioSpirits.com -- HOLLYWOOD STARS ON RADIO
From the 1930s to the early 1950s, top film stars thrilled millions of listeners by starring in 30- and 60-minute radio adaptations of their most popular movies.
You'll delight in the original film scores and realistic sound effects as 10 box-office superstars recreate their most memorable film roles.
Includes a 32-page booklet filled with rare photographs and behind-the-scenes stories from both radio and big-screen versions.
radiospirits.com /details/details53977.asp?...&Svr=124&l=1&source=mbay   (109 words)

  
 Lux Radio Theatre
THE LUX RADIO THEATRE was a 1930's-40's radio anthology that presented one-hour adaptations of popular films, often with the same cast.
It was also known as LUX PRESENTS HOLLYWOOD, and later, when it moved to television, as LUX VIDEO THEATRE.
At the tone, leave your name and number and I'll get back to you...
www.thrillingdetective.com /trivia/lux_radio.html   (80 words)

  
 Radio
We don't know the exact dates for these shows, but they were somewhere around 1944.
Mail Call was a radio show that was sent out to GI's during WWII.
Radio shows we know June did, but don't know where to find:
www.juneallyson.com /radio.htm   (84 words)

  
 eBay - radio theatre, Audiobooks, CDs items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Focus on the Family Radio Theatre Les Miserables
Focus on the Family Radio Theatre NARNIA Cassettes
LUX RADIO THEATRE (OTR) MP3 ON 10 CD'S (540 SHOWS)
search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=radio+theatre&newu=1&...   (458 words)

  
 Radio Revisited Cassette Titles M-Z   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Large selection of songs popular at the time, both from the radio and V-discs made exclusively for Servicement.
Nine radio shows, plus ‘PERRY COMO SINGS” on all of the second sides of each tape.
Very diverse collection of radio shows from the war years.
www.radiorevisited.com /CATitles_M-Z.htm   (946 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Lux presents Hollywood : a show-by-show history of the Lux radio theatre and the Lux video theatre, ...
Find in a Library: Lux presents Hollywood : a show-by-show history of the Lux radio theatre and the Lux video theatre, 1934-1957
Lux presents Hollywood : a show-by-show history of the Lux radio theatre and the Lux video theatre, 1934-1957
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/a3f77c4b02c43a0aa19afeb4da09e526.html   (83 words)

  
 Radio Revisited Titles C-D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
I’m handin’ you no blarney, this is a fabulous 8 Green (of course!) CD set of radio shows from radio’s Golden Age.
Most are ½ hour, though Lux Radio Theatre is an hour, whilc both Dizzy Dean and Sports Newsreel are 15:00 each.
Lincoln’s Wife” Helen Hayes (5/3/43); LUX RADIO THEATRE “The Prisoner of Shark Island” Gary Cooper, Fay Wray.
www.radiorevisited.com /Titles_A_B.htm   (435 words)

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