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And now, just a word about how I came to cast tonight's play.

5 seconds sound clip from the Wuthering Heights (1939)) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:01:39 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- If I thought my request could be granted, I should be thrilled to the skies.

- I think it's one of the greatest love stories that's ever been told, and leaves you with something to think about.

- Then, our fair correspondent adds, with a twinkle in her pen...

- 'If 'Wuthering Heights' is staged, I shall use two cakes of Lux Toilet Soap each week instead of one.'

- It's very gratifying to me that the products behind this theatre - Lux Toilet Soap and Lux Flakes - are of such incomparably high standards that I have no hesitation in asking you to purchase them.

- And now, just a word about how I came to cast tonight's play.

- The part of Cathy requires great talent in an actress. But, above all, it demands sincerity.

- And that alone was enough to make Barbara Stanwyck our choice.

- I telephoned Barbara at her ranch to ask if she'd like to do 'Wuthering Heights' and found she was playing nurse in one of the stables where a blessed event had just taken place.

- Barbara reported that both mother and son were doing nicely and gave me a confidential tip that the son looked like a sure winner in the Kentucky Derby of 1942.

- But, of more immediate importance, was Barbara's eagerness to do 'Wuthering Heights.'

[...]

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I killed you. Then haunt me. Be with me always. Take any form you wish. Only don't leave me where I can't find you.
Wuthering Heights (1939) Sound Clip

The 39 StepsMemorable quotes from Emily Brontë's novel, featuring sound clips from the Lux Radio Theatre broadcast version first aired on September 18, 1939 on CBS.

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck (Cathy), Ida Lupino (Isabella Linton), Brian Aherne (Heathcliff), Thomas Freebairn-Smith (Edgar Linton), Kemball Cooper (Hindley), Marga Ann Deighton (Ellen)

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