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Yes, Montgomery the actor is about to become Montgomery the farmer. I'm going back to farm for a spell.

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

You can hear this line at 00:55:57 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I'm glad to be able to take this curtain call, because it gives me a chance to say something that I really want to say as regards 'A Star Is Born.'

- Often when a picture is a success, all the credit goes to the individuals who happen to star in it.

- We're inclined to pass by the off-screen personalities who made that picture possible.

- To Mr. David O. Selznick, the producer of 'A Star Is Born,' and Mr. William Wellman who so brilliantly directed it, and all the others who contributed, I am very grateful.

- But now what about Mr. Montgomery? I hear some talk around town that you're to go east.

- Yes, Montgomery the actor is about to become Montgomery the farmer. I'm going back to farm for a spell.

- Yes, you told us that some months ago and you haven't reached there yet.

- I'm beginning to think that your 'back to the soil movement' is just a fable.

- At least it provides Bob with some swell stories about that neighbor of his back there, Zeb Davis.

- Zeb is on the way to becoming a national character. What's he done lately, Bob?

- Well, Zeb probably won't speak to me for telling this one on him, but here goes.

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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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