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Lux Radio Theatre: Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (09-02-1946)

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Lux Radio Theatre, a hugely popular hour-long radio show, brought dramas to life with live audiences for over twenty years. It aired on various networks from 1934 to 1955 and started with Broadway plays before switching to movies. It was so successful it even got a TV version, Lux Video Theatre. Sponsored by Lux Soap, the show kicked off in 1934 with Seventh Heaven and had recurring characters like producer Douglass Garrick. A big moment came in 1936 when Cecil B. DeMille became the host, attracting big movie stars. They paid actors well, usually getting the original stars from the films they adapted. While focused on movies, they also had famous radio personalities. They even adapted a radio show, The Life of Riley, and did a show with an all-soldier cast during World War II. There's a funny story about a made-up blooper involving Sonny Tufts that people thought was real. DeMille left over a disagreement about union rules. After him, several people hosted until William Keighley took over for a while. The show had tons of famous stage and screen stars, making it a real golden age of radio.

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Lux Radio Theatre, a hugely popular hour-long radio show, brought dramas to life with live audiences for over twenty years. It aired on various networks from 1934 to 1955 and started with Broadway plays before switching to movies. It was so successful it even got a TV version, Lux Video Theatre. Sponsored by Lux Soap, the show kicked off in 1934 with Seventh Heaven and had recurring characters like producer Douglass Garrick. A big moment came in 1936 when Cecil B. DeMille became the host, attracting big movie stars. They paid actors well, usually getting the original stars from the films they adapted. While focused on movies, they also had famous radio personalities. They even adapted a radio show, The Life of Riley, and did a show with an all-soldier cast during World War II. There's a funny story about a made-up blooper involving Sonny Tufts that people thought was real. DeMille left over a disagreement about union rules. After him, several people hosted until William Keighley took over for a while. The show had tons of famous stage and screen stars, making it a real golden age of radio.

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