A Star is Born Quotes with Sound Clips - page 3

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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21 They say a fool walks in where angels fear to tread, so here I am, a perfect casting job.
22 This microphone is on an international hook-up. Throughout the world, your fans are hoping you'll say a few words to them. Will you, please?
23 Why, it's Mr. America of yesteryear! Do they let you wander around now without a keeper?

— Libby (Lionel Stander)

24 But she was busy at the studio, shaping a career such as he had thrown away.
25 Your guess is as good as mine... and mine's no guess.
26 'Alfred Henkel, known as Norman Maine.' Where is he? -Here.
27 'But why,' I asked, 'do you want to make your footprints in bare feet?' -'I just want to be different.'
28 'Drunk and disorderly. Crashed car into tree. Resisted arrest and injured one of arresting officers.' How do you plead? -Guilty.
29 'Leave me alone!' he hollered. 'Leave me alone and get that ice cream home 'fore it melts! There's enough trouble 'round here as it 'tis!'...
30 'The Prisoner of Zenda,' which, starring Ronald Colman and featuring Madeleine Carroll and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is now duplicating the sensational success of tonight's story.

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