Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series [NBC Blue Network (1934-1935); CBS (1935-1954); NBC (1954-1955)] which first adapted Broadway stage works, and then films to hour-long radio programs performed live before studio audiences. It became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years, and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s.
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Lux Radio Theater, a long-run classic radio anthology series [NBC Blue Network (1934-1935); CBS (1935-1954); NBC (1954-1955)] which first adapted Broadway stage works, and then films to hour-long radio programs performed live before studio audiences. It became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years, and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s.
Broadcasting from New York, the series premiered at 2:30pm, October 14, 1934 on the NBC Blue Network with a production of Seventh Heaven starring Miriam Hopkins and John Boles in a full-hour adaptation of the 1922-24 Broadway production by Austin Strong. The host was the show's fictional producer, Douglass Garrick, portrayed by John Anthony. Doris Dagmar played another fictional character, Peggy Winthrop, who delivered the Lux commercials. Each show featured a scripted session with Garrick talking to the lead actors. Anthony appeared as Garrick from the premiere...
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