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The Lux Radio Theater - The Dark Corner - Starring Lucille Ball (11-10-47)

January 21, 2013
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The Dark Corner (Aired November 10, 1947)


Broadcasting from New York, the series premiered at 2:30pm, October 14, 1934 on the NBC Blue Network with a production of Seventh Heaven starring Miriam Hopkins and John Boles in a full-hour adaptation of the 1922-24 Broadway production by Austin Strong. The host was the show's fictional producer, Douglass Garrick (portrayed by John Anthony). Doris Dagmar played another fictional character, Peggy Winthrop, who delivered the Lux commercials. Each show featured a scripted session with Garrick talking to the lead actors. Anthony appeared as Garrick from the premiere 1934 episode until June 30, 1935. Garrick was portrayed by Albert Hayes from July 29, 1935 to May 25, 1936, when the show moved to the West Coast. A famous urban legend claimed that actor Sonny Tufts was slated to appear as a guest alongside Joan Fontaine for a production of The Major and the Minor on Lux Radio Theater. When Joseph Cotten read the names of the next week's cast, he supposedly said, with a mixture of shock and astonishment, that listeners would hear "that new, talented personality... Sonny Tufts?!" However, this never happened.

THIS EPISODE:

November 10, 1947. CBS network. "The Dark Corner". Sponsored by: Lux, Pepsodent. A former San Francisco private eye, just in back New York after two years in prison (the victim of a frame-up), finds himself a target for another send-up and murder. Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens, William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Joseph Kearns, Wally Maher, Dan O'Herlihy, Fay Baker, William Johnstone (doubles), Truda Marson, Janet Scott (doubles), Lois Corbett (doubles), Norma Jean Nilsson, Noreen Gammill, Edward Marr (doubles), Stanley Farrar (doubles), Herb Butterfield (doubles), Cliff Clark (doubles), Howard McNear (doubles), Dorothy Lovett (commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Jay Dratler (screenwriter), Bernard Schoenfeld (screenwriter), Leo Rosten (author), Betty Ann Lynn (intermission guest), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects). 59:19. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.


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