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Yes, it's strange how things work out.

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

You can hear this line at 00:53:33 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- While we were building the theater I accidentally happened to step in some soft concrete, and there it was.

- So I went to Mary Pickford immediately. Mary put her foot into it.

- And so became the first to sign your concrete autograph album, eh?

- Yes, along with Norma Talmadge and Douglas Fairbanks.

- The latest who have done so are William Powell and Myrna Loy, who used to dance in my prologues.

- While most of us have heard of your theatre and footprints, few people realize that you've helped scores of players on their way to fame...

- Raquel Torres who started as one of your usherettes, Ramón Novarro, or Jackie Coogan, whom you discovered.

- Yes, it's strange how things work out.

- I used to put on Sunday morning concerts in the Million Dollar Theatre in Los Angeles.

- Before the prologue and picture was shown, a young singer asked me for a job.

- After hearing him, I said, 'You're on, but the price is only ten dollars for the concert.'

- He said he needed the work and if I'd give him six concerts in a row that ten dollars would be all right. I did. His name: Lawrence Tibbett.

- To this day one of my best friends is Charlie Chaplin. Before he ever appeared on the screen Charlie worked for me on the stage in San Francisco and I gave him a letter of introduction that brought him to the screen.

[...]

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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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