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Old Time Radio Drama — NBC University Theater: "The Portrait of a Lady" (1949) | Full Episode
By the fall of 1949 NBC University Theater (now billed simply as the NBC Theater) was broadcasting a full hour of a great novel from Hollywood every Sunday, with college courses built around the plays. This week is Henry James's "The Portrait of a Lady," adapted by Richard E. Davis. Isabel Archer, a spirited young woman from Albany, turns down an English lord at a Tudor country house outside London because she wants to see life for herself. An inheritance arranged by her ailing cousin Ralph (Larry Dobkin) sets her free, and the cultivated Madame Merle steers her toward the elegant American…
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