Magic Town (Aired December 15, 1947)
Lux Radio Theater strove to feature as many of the original stars of the original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000 an appearance to do the show. It was when sponsor Lever Brothers (who made Lux soap and detergent) moved the show from New York City to Hollywood in 1936 that it eased back from adapting stage shows and toward adaptations of films. The first Lux film adaptation was The Legionnaire and the Lady, with Marlene Dietrich and Clark Gable, based on the film Morocco. That was followed by a Lux adaptation of The Thin Man, featuring the movie's stars, Myrna Loy and William Powell. Many of the greatest names in film appeared in the series, most in the roles they made famous on the screen, including Abbott and Costello, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, Claudette Colbert, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotton, Bing Crosby, Dan Duryea, Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Vivien Leigh, Agnes Moorehead, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Gene Tierney, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, Orson Welles and Loretta Young.
THIS EPISODE:
December 15, 1947. CBS network. "Magic Town". Sponsored by: Lux, Pepsodent. A pollster's dream comes true. He finds the typical American city that is statistically accurate...until the residents come to realize how valuable they are! Love complicates the plot. William Keighley hosts the program from Washington D. C. Jimmy Stewart, Jane Wyman, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Herb Butterfield, Jeff Chandler (doubles, billed as "Ira Grossel"), Wally Maher, John McIntire (narrator), Alex Carey, Jack Edwards Sr. (doubles), Norman Field, Tommy Cook, Gil Stratton, Lois Corbett, Edward Marr, Marie Windsor, Charles Woolf, Robert Griffin, Earl Lee, Dorothy Lovett (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Martha Hyer (intermission guest), Robert Riskin (screenwriter), Joseph Krumgold (screenwriter), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:48.
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