Chester Morris

I got a way.

For suspense, Roma Wines are bringing you Chester Morris in The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy.

Roma Wines' presentation tonight in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense.

Between the acts of suspense, this is Ken Niles for Roma Wines.

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And now Roma Wines bring back to our Hollywood soundstage Chester Morris as Johnny Malone in The Strange Death of Gordon Fitzroy.

A tale well calculated to keep you in suspense.

Well, thanks to you, Judy, and to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of The Yearling, for their cooperation in making you available to us tonight.

Next week, we'll have Chester Morris as star of Suspense.

Oh, he's one of my favorite actors.

I won't miss it.

Good night.

Tonight's Suspense play was written by Mel Donnelly and Muriel Roy Bolton.

Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Chester Morris as star of Suspense.

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By that point, Lugosi had settled in Hollywood, landing a contract with Fox Film Corporation.

When Universal Pictures optioned the film rights for Dracula in 1930, studio executives initially bypassed Lugosi, considering established Hollywood names like Chester Morris, Paul Muni, and Conrad Veidt.

Lugosi lobbied hard for the part, and accepted a modest $3,500 salary for seven weeks of shooting.

Released in 1931 and directed by Todd Browning, Dracula became a major box office hit.

Directing him to the favorable reviews he'd received for his stage performance in Dracula, he worked hard to convince them that he was the right man for the role, even pointing to the few silent films he'd made in Germany before reaching America.

Universal wanted an established screen star, though, and sent offers to Paul Muni, Chester Morris, and Conrad Veidt, but all turned it down.

As a last gambit, Lugosi sent word that if he was hired, he'd work for the poultry sum of $500 a week.

The rate being offered to the film's star was 3,500 per week.

It's pretty cool.

Brought to screen life by Chester Morris, Marla English, Cathy Downs, Lance Fuller, Tom Conway, Frida Inescort, and Ron Randall.

It's an adventure into the occult such as few people have known, and only those who see it can believe.

You're not going for that supernatural hokum of his.

Yeah

... bringing the same in there.

Because I, I do think Chester Morris, as, as Dr. Carlo, he does a really good job.

Yeah, I think he does.

One listener comments, "Glad to have you back, Adam.

Regarding this Charlie Chan series, I wish Warner Oland were voicing these." Well, it is always nice when you can get the same actor who plays the character in film to do the radio series, like with Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes or Chester Morris as Boston Blackie.

But it can be tricky in terms of, uh, from an economic standpoint, as well as scheduling, and of course, then you also have a matter of radio acting being a bit of a different skill than film acting.

But it- I'd agree, it definitely would be interesting.

Between 1934 and in March of 1935, at least seven writers [chuckles] worked on the script for The Raven.

These included novelist Guy Endore, who submitted a 19-page treatment based on the Poe poem that also contained elements of the author's sh- short story, "The Gold-Bug." A week later, though, Universal announced that it had signed Chester Morris for the role of the film, although Morris did not ultimately appear in the final cut, and Endore's treatment was not used.

In October of 1934, Michael Simmons and Clarance Marks collaborated on a treatment and wrote a screenplay based upon it.

John Lynch and Dorc Scarry also reportedly contributed to a script, but whether or not their work was used is unknown.

Produced and directed by William Speer for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California.

In the coming weeks, Suspense will present such stars as Judy Garland, Chester Morris, Olivia de Havilland, Cary Grant, Joseph Cotten, Roddy McDowell, and others.

Make it a point to listen each Thursday to Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills.

Suspense is broadcast from coast to coast and to our men and women overseas by shortwave, and through the worldwide facilities of the Armed Forces Radio Service.

To clear his name, Blackie follows the trail from the Savoy Cafe to an estate where rooms have been repeatedly ransacked.

Chester Morris stars as Blackie, with Richard Lane as Inspector Faraday, in Boston Blackie, Episode 6.

Heard on NBC July 28, 1944, and sponsored by Rinseau.

The episode is The Devon Caretaker Murder.

Watch of a lifetime.

WEAF, New York.

Rinso, R-I-N-S-O, Soapy Rich Rinso presents Boston Blackie, starring Chester Morris.

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