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Heard
1937–1952
Episodes
19

This is a collection of most of the Academy Award-winning films adapted to radio by Lux Theater between 1935 and 1955 when it sadly ceased production in America. The focus here is on awards given for best film, director, lead or supporting actor, or screenplay. Source of these files is Archive's Old-Time Radio section. Also included are other old-time radio production sources of future award winners -- NBC University Theater (Howards End, The Grapes of Wrath, et al), and appropriately, Academy Award Theater with a half-hour adaptation of Jezebel, starring 1938's Best Actress, Bette Davis. Emma Thompson would receive awards for starring in and adapting the screenplay of Howards End, in 1993. Bonus production is a 1948 Critic's Circle Theater Award presentation featuring the original Broadway cast (Jessica Tandy, Marlon Brando, and Kim Hunter) -- and scenes from -- A Streetcar Named Desire. Each of these adaptations features at least one of the original stars and an A-list substitute, such as the 1937 Best Director winner -- The Awful Truth -- with Cary Grant and featuring Claudette Colbert subbing for Irene Dunne. In the case of Mildred Pierce, Joan Crawford's good friend Rosalind Russell subs for her, tasked with reading lines with smarmy Zachary Scott. Sometimes the entire lead cast appears, as in All About Eve with Bette Davis, George Sanders, and Anne Baxter

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Dodsworth

    · 54 min

  2. It Happened One Night

    · 57 min

  3. TheAwfulTruth

    · 1 h 00 min

  4. The Philadelphia Story

    · No. 1 · 58 min

  5. Track 1

    · 59 min

  6. AStreecar Named Desire

    · 30 min

  7. Gentleman's Agreement

    · 1 h 00 min

  8. The Grapes of Wrath

    · 1 h 00 min

  9. Mildred Pierce (Rosalyn Russell, Zachary Scott)

    · 56 min

  10. A Passage to India

    · No. 44 · 1 h 00 min

  11. GoodbyeMrChips

    · 59 min

  12. Old Time Radio Drama

    · No. 29 · 29 min

  13. Key Largo

    · 58 min

  14. Letter to Three Wives (Linda Darnell, Paul Douglas)

    · 54 min

  15. HowardsEnd

    · 1 h 00 min

  16. The Heiress (Olivia deHavilland, Louie Calhurn)(Broadway Playhouse)

    · 54 min

  17. Track 1

    · 59 min

  18. Track 1

    · 1 h 00 min

  19. African Queen (Humphrey Bogart, Greer Garson)

    · 59 min

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The archive items its episodes are played from, best first, with each one’s rights as its archive states them. An episode two sets both hold is played from the first.

  1. OTRAAwards

    Old Time Radio · PDGazette · 19 episodes here · archive.org

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Radio drama, old-time radio and historic broadcasts from the Internet Archive (its Old Time Radio collection with the Old Time Radio Researchers' sets, WWII Era Audio Recordings, the Pacifica Radio Archives, the Radio Haiti Archive, German radio plays and listeners' uploads), Wikimedia Commons (with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision's broadcasts) and the Library of Congress. Every episode plays from its archive, which this site does not copy; rights are as each archive states them. Nothing here is called public domain on this site's say-so. In the United States, sound recordings first fixed before 15 February 1972 have federal protection under the Music Modernization Act of 2018, for most until 2067 at the latest, so most American radio of the 1930s to the 1950s is not in the public domain there. Each set shows the licence, mark or statement its archive gives, and says whose it is. Horror, crime, war and westerns are for teenage and adult profiles, racist caricature for adults only, and children’s profiles hear what was made for children. More about these archives.