The Screen Guild Theater

Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James.

Now stay tuned for Screen Guild Theater, which follows immediately over most of these stations.

[audience applause]

Yes, this is your invitation to stay tuned for Screen Guild Theater, next on NBC

Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James.

Now stay tuned for Screen Guild Theater, which follows immediately over most of these stations.

[applause] [instrumental music] Stay tuned for Screen Guild Theater, next on NBC

Hollywood has not been unmindful of its own.

The Motion Picture Relief Fund has established an $800,000 bank account raised through Sunday radio programs of the Gulf Screen Guild Show to maintain a home for indigent and aged studio workers of all classes.

Ground will be broken for the first 44 units of an eventual 164-unit home near Calabasas, California this fall.

Hollywood does not boast of its patriotism, but the public should know more of what the industry is doing for defense.

Later on, Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronin star in the marriage.

But first, an episode of the Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater, bringing forth an adaptation of the 1942 motion picture, Pittsburgh, which originally starred Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne.

They all make a radio appearance to reprise their roles in this CBS broadcast from April 12th, 1943.

Lady Astor presents the Screen Guild Players.

This is Truman Bradley speaking for Lady Esther, saying thank you and good night.

This is the Columbia Broadcasting System.

The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater.

On tuned to yesterday, a CBS episode from April 12th, 1943, featuring a relatively rare radio appearance from screen actor John Wayne.

Father Knows Best was transcribed in Hollywood and written by Ed James.

Now stay tuned in for Screen Guild Theater, which follows immediately over most of these stations.

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Then we have the Best Plays of the New York Stage adaptation, which is great because it luxuriates in a full hour-long running time.

And finally, we've got the highly compressed, adrenaline-fueled 30-minute broadcast from the Screen Guild Theatre.

Yeah, sitting in a dimly lit room and listening to these three versions back to back, it's honestly like tasting three wildly unpredictable vintages of the exact same elderberry wine.

That is a perfect way to describe it.

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At the Screen Guild Theater, a radio production is assembling with Barbara Stanwyck, Basil Rathbone, and director Michael Curtis, and Jack Benny wants in.

Our visit with the Jack Benny Program brings us to the Frontline Theater presentation, Ham for Sale, drawn from the March 27, 1944 Screen Guild Theater broadcast, episode number 189.

Benny presses Screen Guild president Gene Herschelt for a part, particularly one opposite Miss Stanwyck.

It is a backstage visit to a radio production with Benny, Stanwyck, Rathbone, Herschelt, and Curtis appearing as themselves.

And hopefully I can continue this and Lindsay doesn't have a double indemnity clause.

Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in Paramount Pictures' smash dramatic hit, Double Indemnity, from the novel by James M. Cain.

It stars Barbara Stanwyck as Phyllis, Fred McMurray as Walter, and Walter Abel as Keys.

The Lady Esther Screen Guild Players in Double Indemnity.

It's midnight.

Downtown Los Angeles is dark and deserted.