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Lou Merrill is heard as Oliver Niles.

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

You can hear this line at 00:03:36 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Compared with her our co-star, Robert Montgomery of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, is a veteran. His portrayal tonight of Norman Maine is his fourth on our stage.

- Bob's popularity wherever pictures are shown, his versatility in all kinds of difficult roles, leaves me little more to say than 'welcome home' to an old friend of our theater.

- Bob's new MGM picture with Rosalind Russell is 'Live, Love and Learn.'

- Lionel Stander resumes the role he played on the screen: Libby the publicity man.

- Also from the original cast, as Granny, comes that actress now in her fifty-fourth year of trouping, May Robson.

- Lou Merrill is heard as Oliver Niles.

- And now for our play. The Lux Radio Theatre returns to the air, bringing you Janet Gaynor and Robert Montgomery in 'A Star Is Born.'

(LUX RADIO THEATER APPLAUSE)

- An isolated farmhouse, on the windswept plains of North Dakota.

- The house is silent... sleeping... but moonlight streams through the window of one of the upstairs rooms where a young girl is still awake.

- She lies across her bed, sobbing quietly into the pillow.

[...]

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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