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We're going to change your name, of course. Esther Blodgett is... Well, you understand. From now on your name is Lester. Vicki Lester. Vicki Lester.

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

You can hear this line at 00:21:27 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Cut!

- Just sign right there.

- There?

- That's it. Thank you.

- Thank you.

- I may as well tell you that my whole organization thinks I've gone a little nuts to sign you. Maybe they're right.

- I hope they aren't.

- Well, we won't know either way for a while, will we?

- You look like a nice girl. I think I'm gonna like you. That's not important. I think the public will like you - that is important.

- I know it is.

- We're going to change your name, of course. Esther Blodgett is... Well, you understand. From now on your name is Lester. Vicki Lester. Vicki Lester.

- Vicki Lester. Why, it... Why, it's beautiful.

(Bippety-bippety-bippety transition mixed with telegraph key)

- Good evening, everybody, this is Billie Moon... your own Billie, the Hollywood Star-Chaser!

- Flash! Oliver Niles' studio discovers a new starlet... a Cinderella of the Rockies! Her name is Vicki Lester!

- Those who have peeked tell me she couldn't be more de-voon.

[...]

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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