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'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.

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

You can hear this line at 00:02:07 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- As a result, the greatest series of dramatic treats it has ever been our pleasure to offer is in store for you.

- We alone could not have made this possible. You, through the friendship shown our products, are equally responsible.

- For a fitting inaugural we made a long and careful search. We found it in the stars and story we're about to bring you...

- Janet Gaynor and Robert Montgomery in the brilliant Technicolor screen play from Selznick International studios,'A Star Is Born.'

- From these same studios has recently come another record-breaking film...

- '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.

- Miss Gaynor's performance in 'A Star Is Born' is bringing her a national acclaim approached only by her debut performance several years ago in 'Seventh Heaven.'

- She was scarcely more than a child then, and if you could see her now you'd realize she's still a little girl.

- In fact, there's only one hundred pounds and five feet of her, topped by large brown eyes and dark red hair.

- Among her treasures is a little pair of black low-heeled shoes that once pattered from studio to studio as their owner searched for work. They never stopped at my door... I wish they had.

- As Esther Blodgett, Miss Gaynor makes her first appearance in the Lux Radio Theatre.

[...]

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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