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The Awful Truth from Hollywood Radio Theater aired January 18, 1955 starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. This is the radio version taken from the classic 1937 romantic comedy film. The plot concerns the machinations of a soon-to-be-divorced couple, played by Dunne and Grant, who go to great lengths to try to ruin each other's romantic escapades. The bright, zesty, and carefree film was nominated for six Academy Awards.

Hollywood Radio Theater 550118 906 The Awful Truth

"Suspicion" is a romantic psychological thriller starring Cary Grant. Handsome, irresponsible cad Johnnie Aysgarth (Cary Grant) sweeps dowdy Lina McLaidlaw off her feet and charms her into running away and marrying him, despite the strong disapproval of her wealthy father, General McLaidlaw.

Academy Award Theater 46-10-30 (32) Suspicion (HQ)

Cary Grant (born Archibald Alexander Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was an English stage and Hollywood film actor who became an American citizen in 1942. Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, and "dashing good looks", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men.

Cary Grant was in over 70 movies and over 80 radio programs.

Cary Grant.mp4

The NBC University Theater. December 12, 1948.

NBC net. "After Many A Summer Dies The Swan". 

The famous portrait of a quest for eternal life in the unique culture

of California. Alan Hale, Albert Harris (composer, conductor), Aldous

Huxley (author), Andrew C. Love (director), Don Stanley (announcer),

Donald Morrison, Earl Keen, Ernest Kinoy (writer), Henry Russell

(composer, conductor), Lynn Whitney, Marlene Ames, Norman Cousins, Paul

Henreid, Ralph Montgomery, Ramsay Hale, Theodore Von Eltz, Tony Barrett.

NBC University Theater 48-12-12 (020) After Many a Summer Dies the Swan.mp3

One of the swiftness radio series, the True Detective Mysteries program

broadcast over CBS every Thursday evening, owes much of its popularity

to the action which takes place in the studio. Reproducing as it does

true stories of various police cases, it is often impossible to go into

every detail of the story, and so far no one has actually been murdered

in the broadcast: but when a struggle is indicated in the script the

actors proceed to struggle; when the gong and siren on the police cars

are heard, there are sirens and gongs in the studio.

Staged under the direction of Charles Schenck, one of radio's pioneers

in stagecraft, "True Detective Mysteries" utilizes approximately the

same cast each week to dramatize the more thrilling story in the current

issue of the magazine from which it takes its name. Much of the

program's success is due to the fact Mr. Schenck has been able to

assemble the cast which his experience has shown him possesses really

ideal voices for the microphone, as well as dramatic ability. The sound

effects, pistol shots, slamming doors, crashing glass, speeding

autos---every conceivable noise, in fact---are produced by one man, who

sets up his apparatus before his own special microphone, and, working

from his own copy of the script, follows his cues as carefully and

promptly as do the actors.

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"The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre" from Lux Radio Theater aired April 18, 1949 on CBS starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston. A story of gold and greed in the mountains of Mexico.

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"Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine and Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund. Set during World War II in the Vichy-controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca, it focuses on Rick's conflict between love and virtue: he must choose between his love for Ilsa and his need to do the right thing by helping her husband.

Casablanca.mp4

Bold Venture. March 26, 1951. Program #1. ZIV Syndication. "Deadly Merchandise". Bogart plays Slate Shannon who owns a hotel in Havana and gets involved in intrigue with his beautiful sidekick "Sailor." Shannon and Sailor get involved with a shipment of arms for a planned revolution. But Shannon never picked up the "merchandise" in Key West, and two murders follow because he doesn't have the guns. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall.

Bold Venture [ZIV_01] - Deadly Merchandise (aka-Death By A Fighting Bird) (HQ)

"The African Queen" from Lux Radio Theater aired December 15, 1952 on CBS starrinrg Humphrey Bogart and Greer Garson. The setting, a British Methodist missionary in a village of German East Africa in 1914 during World War I. The missionaries mail and supplies are delivered by a rough-and-ready Canadian boat captain Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart) of the African Queen. When Germans burn down the mission village and herd the villagers away, the adventure begins with a trip down the Zambesi river.

Lux Radio Theater-521215-807-The African Queen (HQ).mp3

Humphrey DeForest Bogart, December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American screen actor whose performances in such iconic 1940s films noir as The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, and The Big Sleep, earned him the legacy of cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema. Over his career he received three Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, winning one.

Bogart performed radio adaptations of some of his best known films, such as Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. He also recorded a radio series called Bold Venture with Lauren Bacall.

Humphrey Bogart.mp4