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Lux Radio Theatre - "Lillian Russell" (Old Time Radio, 1940)
Lux Radio Theatre presents “Lillian Russell,” episode 278, originally broadcast on October 21, 1940. Hosted and produced by Cecil B. DeMille for CBS and sponsored by Lux Toilet Soap, this adaptation is based on the 1940 Twentieth Century-Fox musical-biographical film.
Alice Faye reprises her screen role as Helen Leonard, the young Iowa singer who becomes celebrated stage star Lillian Russell. Edward Arnold returns as devoted admirer Diamond Jim Brady, with Victor Mature as newspaperman Alexander Moore, in a story spanning the theatrical worlds of late-19th-century New York and London.
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