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Your publicity department begs to advise you that your star, Mr. Norman Maine, has once again been thrown in the Los Angeles jug.

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

You can hear this line at 00:10:44 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Let me speak to Mr. Oliver Niles, and quick!

- Who, sir?

- Oliver Niles! Niles the producer!

- Yes, sir. Oh, Mr. Niles? It's for you, sir.

- Thank you, I'll take it inside.

- Hello? Oliver Niles speaking.

- Hello, Niles. This is your publicity department.

- Well, what is it, Libby?

- Your publicity department begs to advise you that your star, Mr. Norman Maine, has once again been thrown in the Los Angeles jug.

- Yes! Mr. Norman Maine, America's Prince Charming, was apprehended driving down Wilshire Boulevard with a siren going full blast.

- He explained he was a tree surgeon on a maternity case.

- Well, where is he now?

- I bailed him out an hour ago. He ought to be at Burke's any minute.

- Will it...? Will it be in the papers?

- No, it won't be in the papers.

- But that's a nice expensive hobby of yours... keeping Mr. Maine's informal entertainments out of the public press.

[...]

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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