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For the part of Isabella, we selected Ida Lupino, one of Hollywood's rising young dramatic actresses...

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

You can hear this line at 00:02:32 in the radio play.

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- 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.'

- Then we discovered that Brian Aherne had tramped over the Yorkshire moors many times and that one of his secret ambitions was to play the part of Heathcliff.

- That solved a very knotty problem, for it's a role that demands rare strength and fire.

- For the part of Isabella, we selected Ida Lupino, one of Hollywood's rising young dramatic actresses...

- She, too, has that emotional power which every character in this play seems to require.

- Now, the players are on the stage and our drama's about to begin. We raise the curtain on Act One of 'Wuthering Heights'...

- Desolate and lonely are the rolling moorlands of England where, in the winter night, the snowdrifts stand like giant spectres in the teeth of screaming gales.

- About one hundred years ago, a stranger lost his way on such a night.

- Freezing, blinded and stumbling, he saw at last the fitful lights of an old manor house, aged and crumbling on the hillside.

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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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