Dust Be My Destiny (Aired April 14, 1941)
Stars and movies with Oscars were the idea - in most cases, the movie stars recreated their academy award roles for the show, or in other cases, fine actors played the parts and gave it a different character. Both ways make for great radio drama and first class Hollywood motion picture star entertainment. The Lux Radio Theater had been doing this kind of radio show in the grandest manner for many years, but sponsor Squibb had the hubris and deep pockets to take on the competition by doing Academy Award Theater right after the Second World War. The year 1946 was pre-television, and so movies were still the major American visual art form, with radio the other popular network entertainment. In this final pre-TV time, Academy Award Theater was thought of as a premier radio production, a wow show, much like CinemaScope was to be in the 1950's when Hollywood felt the box office blow of early TV.
THIS EPISODE:
April 14, 1941. CBS network. "Dust Be My Destiny". Sponsored by: Lux. A Depression romance about a young couple who stay one jump ahead of the law, running from a wrongful murder rap. John Garfield, Claire Trevor, Cecil B. DeMille, Adelaide Irving, Arthur Q. Bryan, Bruce Payne, Earl Keen (as a cow), Earle Ross (doubles), Edward Arnold Jr. (doubles), George Yesner (doubles), James Eagles (doubles), Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Pat Collins (doubles), Rex Heath, Spec O'Donnell (doubles), Tony Martelli, Lou Merrill, Griff Barnett, Warren Ashe (doubles, one part is a radio), Charles Seel (doubles), Paul O. Irving (doubles), Duane Thompson (commercial spokesman), Ann Tobin (commercial spokesman), Frederick Shields (commercial spokesman), Robert Rossen (screenwriter), Jerome Odlum (author), Sanford Barnett (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 1 hour.(1946)
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