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Listen to this! 'The screen's ideal romance blossomed into breathtaking reality today when Vicki Lester and Norman Maine, America's dream lovers, slipped quietly through the portals of holy matrimony.'

15 seconds sound clip from the A Star is Born classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:26:16 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- And bless you, my children. When's it gonna happen?

- Well, we thought we'd just sneak out sometime.

- Sure, sure, but you mustn't hurt people's feelings.

- Matt Libby, for instance. He has a very sensitive nature. He'd feel offended if he didn't have a chance to congratulate you.

- Get Libby in!

- I've been trying to keep him out!

- Listen to this! 'The screen's ideal romance blossomed into breathtaking reality today when Vicki Lester and Norman Maine, America's dream lovers, slipped quietly through the portals of holy matrimony.'

- How does that sound?

- Horrible.

- But you see, we're going to elope.

- Sure you are! It'll be the biggest elopement this town ever saw!

- We'll get a tie-up with the army. I'll have you escorted all the way down to Yuma, Arizona by twenty of their new bombing planes.

- From there you can make personal appearances in Denver, Salt Lake, Seattle... Vancouver!

- Let's make this thing international!

[...]

A Star is Born Sound Clip

Janet Gaynor on the microphone recording for A Star is BornAudio quotes from the old-time radio play "A Star is Born" (1937), based on a story by Adela Rogers St. Johns, first aired on September 13, 1937 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Janet Gaynor (Esther Blodgett), Robert Montgomery (Norman Maine), Lionel Stander (Libby)

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