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She said, 'I think you could be even more emphatic than you are about your soap.

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

You can hear this line at 00:24:30 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- I should like to say a word about the product which brings you tonight's play, Lux Toilet Soap.

- I just want to tell you what a lovely and intelligent lady, whom I know here in Hollywood, said to me the other day.

- She knows that I talk to the Lux Radio Theatre audience each Monday night and we chatted about the program for a while.

- Then she said something I'd like to pass on to you. She told me that she thought I ought to tell our women listeners of her own experience with Lux Toilet Soap.

- You'll be interested to know that the lady in question was Joan Bennett.

- She said, 'I think you could be even more emphatic than you are about your soap.

- Here's what I mean. For example, some years ago, I used to buy an expensive soap.

- Then I found Lux Toilet Soap in a neighboring star's dressing room and tried it.

- I liked it better than the soap I'd been using. It seemed milder, gentler and it agreed with my skin.

- Well, since then I've been one of your most enthusiastic users.

- And here's what seems to me so marvelous. For a few pennies, literally, I get a beautifully-made, subtly-perfumed complexion soap that I like better than the very expensive one.

[...]

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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