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Aired 1934 – 1955

Lux Radio Theater started as a Sunday afternoon anthology featuring radio versions of Broadway plays.  Lux Radio Theater soon struck gold with the addition of Cecil B. DeMille as host when the show began re-creating popular Hollywood films.

Listen to stars such as Fred MacMurray, Loretta Young, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Claudette Colbert perform in front of a weekly studio audience of 1,000 fans on one of Old Time Radio’s most expensive and longest running programs, Lux Radio Theater.

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Please enjoy these old time radio shows:

Air Date Title Synopsis
 1936-12-14  111 Madame Sans Gene

CBS net. "Madame Sans-Gene". Sponsored by: Lux. Romance and intrigue in post-revolutionary France. One of the intermission interviews is with the pretender to the throne of the French Empire, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (who speaks from New York). Charles Emerson (doubles), Ross Forrester (doubles), George Finnie (doubles), Sarah Selby, Phyllis Coghlan, Gretchen Thomas, Ken Chavelle (triples), David Kerman (triples), James Eagles (triples), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Frank Woodruff (director), Lauretta Puck (performer, commercial spokesman), Noreen Gammill (performer, commercial spokesman), Viola Moore (performer, commercial spokesman), Jean Harlow, Robert Taylor, Claude Rains, C. Henry Gordon, Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte (intermission interview), Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Victorien Sardou (author), Emile Moreau (author), William Councelman (intermission guest: cartoonist, scenario writer for Twentieth Century Fox), William Royal (triples), Corinne Ross.
 1936-12-21  112 The Gold Diggers (end Missing)

+ CBS net. "Gold Diggers". Sponsored by: Lux Soap. The story of "Gold Diggers Of 1933," the music of "Gold Diggers Of 1937." The program features an intermission interview with a real "sourdough," who has a great deal of trouble with his script. A show business story of the Depression. The first 46:55 of the program only. Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis Silvers and His Orchestra, Erwin Gelsey (adaptor), James Seymour (adaptor), David Boehm (dialogue), Ben Markson (dialogue), Avery Hopwood (author), Ted Atmore (intermission guest), Ynez Seabury, Harriet Russell, Chester Clute, John Davidson, Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), Claudia Hyams, Betty Stewart, Ross Forrester (doubles), Charles Emerson, Justina Wayne (commercial spokesman), Verna Felton (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).
 1936-12-28  113 Cavalcade

+ CBS net. "Cavalcade". Sponsored by: Lux. An excellent drama of an English couple from 1900 to 1936, from the Boer War to the "present" day. Well done! Noel Coward speaks from his dressing room at the National Theatre in New York. Herbert Marshall, Madeleine Carroll, Cecil B. DeMille, Douglas Scott, Elsa Buchanan, Melville Ruick (announcer), Noel Coward (author, intermission guest), Una O'Connor, Leonard Mudie, Helena Grant, George Kirby, Martin Field, Ra Hould, June Lockhart, Jennifer Bruce, Wauna Lidwell, Ben Guy Phillips (doubles), Frederick Sewell (triples), Josephine Brown (doubles), David Niven, Vernon Steele (narrator), Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Lou Merrill (doubles), David Kerman, Lauretta Puck, Ross Forrester, Charles Emerson, Rudy Schrager (performer), Margaret Brayton (commercial spokesman), George Wells (adaptor), Frank Woodruff (director), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 
 1937-01-04  114 Men In White

+ CBS net, KNX, Los Angeles aircheck. "Men In White". Sponsored by: Lux. A young doctor learns the hard way what a life dedicated to medicine really means. Spencer Tracy, Virginia Bruce, Frances Farmer, Cecil B. DeMille, Edith Head (intermission guest: costume designer for Paramount), Frank Reicher, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Paul Guilfoyle, Victor G. Heiser (intermission guest: physician, author), Crauford Kent, Thomas Mills, Kenneth Hansen, Brent Sargent, Lou Merrill, Ross Forrester, Frank Nelson (doubles, program opening announcer), Dorothy Gray, David Kerman (doubles), Margaret Brayton, Sarah Selby (performer, commercial spokesman), Mary Jane Higby, Doris Louray, William Royal (commercial spokesman), Sidney S. Kingsley (author), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 
 1937-01-11  115 The Gilded Lily

+ CBS net. "The Gilded Lily". Sponsored by: Lux. A young woman dreams of riches by marrying royalty, and then actually falls in love with the guy. After the story, Fred MacMurray sings, "When Is A Kiss Not A Kiss?" Fred MacMurray, David Niven, George Chandler, Montague Shaw, Cecil B. DeMille (host), Claudette Colbert, Chester Clute (doubles), John Gibson (triples), Georgie Simmons (doubles), Lou Merrill (triples), Frank Nelson (triples, announcer), William Royal (triples), Mary Alden (doubles, commercial spokesman), Warren McCollum (doubles), Ross Forrester (doubles), Marilyn Cooper (commercial spokesman), Rachel Rojas (Real name is Janet Riesenfeld, daughter of composer Hugo Risenfeld. As an intermission guest, she speaks about the Spanish civil war), Linton Wells (intermission guest: New York Herald Tribune reporter), Claude Binyon (screenwriter), Melville Baker (author), Jack Kirland (author), Melville Ruick (announcer), Frank Woodruff (director), Louis Silvers (music director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 
 1937-01-18  116 The Criminal Code

+ CBS net. "Criminal Code". Sponsored by: Lux. A nice kid with all the breaks going against him gets ten years in the Big House, and finds love! Edward G. Robinson, Beverly Roberts, Cecil B. DeMille, Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), Lou Merrill (doubles), Earle Ross, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Noel Madison, Paul Guilfoyle, Martin Flavin (author), Gladys Lloyd (intermission guest: wife of Edward G. Robinson), James B. Holohan (intermission quest: former warden of San Quentin), Walter Kingsford, William Williams (triples), Richard Abbott (triples), Ernie Adams (doubles), Justina Wayne (doubles), Joe Franz (doubles), Hilda Haywood (doubles), Margaret Brayton (doubles, commercial spokesman), Ross Forrester (triples), David Kerman (triples), Charles Emerson (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects).
 1937-01-25  117 Tonight Or Never

+ CBS net. "Tonight Or Never". Sponsored by: Lux. A tuneful romance between an opera singer and a giglio. David Kerman, Ross Forrester, Charles Emerson, Zahuri Elmassian (chorus), Emily Beauchamp (chorus), Mildred Carroll (chorus), Windona Black (chorus), Mary Mahoney (chorus), Dorothy McCarthy (chorus), Cornelia Glover (chorus), Frank Carpenter (chorus), Alfred Garr (chorus), Richard Davis (chorus), Russell Horton (chorus), Kenneth Rundquist (chorus), Tudor Williams (chorus), Dudley Russell (chorus), William Brandt (chorus), John Lake, Bernie Altstock (chorus), Cecil B. DeMille, Jeanette MacDonald, Melvyn Douglas, Louis Silvers (music director), Luis Alberni, Melville Ruick (announcer), Lili Hatvany (author), Mary Garden (intermission interview: opera singer and talent scout for MGM), Marcella Napp (intermission guest: casting director for MGM), John Davidson, Greta Myers, Zeffi Tillbury, Lou Merrill (doubles), Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), Jean Colbert (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Jerrie Gail (commercial spokesman). 

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