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We suggested that it was time to stop entertaining himself and get back to entertaining the public.

6 seconds sound clip from the You Can't Take It with You (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:02:39 in the radio play.

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[...]

- A Pulitzer Prize play on the Broadway stage and later a hit motion picture produced by Columbia Pictures Corporation, 'You Can't Take It with You' is a great American comedy.

- But it's also a love story, for there can be humor in romance, even though the parties concerned are usually too serious to see it.

- To cast this play, we literally covered the country, from Maine to California.

- Our good friend Edward Arnold was up in San Francisco enjoying a kind of postman's holiday with the Bohemian Club...

- A group of gentlemen who amuse themselves occasionally by putting on a play.

- We suggested that it was time to stop entertaining himself and get back to entertaining the public.

- He's here tonight as Banker Kirby, the same role he played in the picture.

- Miss Fay Wray was in Maine, finishing an engagement on the straw hat circuit.

- That's the branch of the theater which blooms in the spring and closes up at the first frost.

- We reached her by telephone and told her about the part of Alice...

- And, above the noise of shifting scenery, she managed to shout across the continent that she'd take the next train for California.

[...]

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You Can't Take It with You (1939) Sound Clip

You Can't Take It with You (1939)Quotes from You Can't Take It with You (1939), Lux Radio Theatre play broadcast in 1939, based on the Pulitzer Prize Play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Actors: Fay Wray (Alice), Robert Cummings (Tony), Walter Connolly (Grandpa Vanderhof), Edward Arnold (Mr. Kirby), Lou Merrill (Kolenkhov), Sally Payne (Essie),

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