# OTRAAwards

Heard 1937–1952. 19 episodes.

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

## Sets

- OTRAAwards (Old Time Radio): Marked CC0 1.0 by its uploader at the Internet Archive; the record gives no basis for it. Source: https://archive.org/details/OTRAAwards

## Episodes, in broadcast order

1. [Dodsworth](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/11bacdb4e252), aired 4 October 1937 (54 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux_37-10-04_Dodsworth.mp3
1. [It Happened One Night](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/7511e92589b7), aired 20 March 1939 (57 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux_39-03-20_It_Happened_One_Night.mp3
1. [TheAwfulTruth](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/6a171488733d), aired 11 September 1939 (1 h 00 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/LuxRadioTheater-1939-09-11-TheAwfulTruth.mp3
1. [The Philadelphia Story](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/6d41cd89cef9), aired 20 July 1942 (58 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/VictoryTheater_42-07-20-The_Philadelphia_Story.mp3
1. [Track 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/5c2f342d1bdf), aired 12 February 1945 (59 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux-450212-ForWhomtheBellTolls-IBergmanGCooper.mp3
1. [AStreecar Named Desire](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/af6573ec5d86), aired 4 April 1948 (30 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/48-04-04-CriticsCircleTheater-AStreetcarnamedDesire.mp3
1. [Gentleman's Agreement](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/10a7572908a3), aired 20 September 1948 (1 h 00 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/LuxRadioTheater480920GentlemansAgreement.mp3
1. [The Grapes of Wrath](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/2ba9e63f9069), aired 9 January 1949 (1 h 00 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/NBC_University_Theater_490109_The_Grapes_of_Wrath.mp3
1. [Mildred Pierce (Rosalyn Russell, Zachary Scott)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/8dfeca65908f), aired 6 June 1949 (56 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux-490606-MildredPierce-RosalindRussellZScott.mp3
1. [A Passage to India](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/14d646dfa979), aired 12 June 1949 (1 h 00 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/NbcUniversityTheater-490612-aPassageToIndia.mp3
1. [GoodbyeMrChips](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/30343e0808da), aired 9 July 1949 (59 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/NBC_University_Theater_490709_Goodby_Mr_Chips.mp3
1. [Old Time Radio Drama](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/e07a4f270893), aired 12 August 1949 (29 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/AcademyAwardTheater-49-08-12-Jezebel.mp3
1. [Key Largo](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/d497a02759b3), aired 28 November 1949 (58 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux_49-11-28_Key_Largo.mp3
1. [Letter to Three Wives (Linda Darnell, Paul Douglas)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/6a970015d2fc), aired 20 February 1950 (54 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux-500220-LettertoThreeWives-LDarnellPaulDouglas.mp3
1. [HowardsEnd](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/6ecfa8161f56), aired 26 March 1950 (1 h 00 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/NbcUniversityTheater-500326-howardsend.mp3
1. [The Heiress (Olivia deHavilland, Louie Calhurn)(Broadway Playhouse)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/1edfea61a152), aired 11 September 1950 (54 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux-500911-TheHeiress-OliviadeHavillandVHeflin.mp3
1. [Track 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/9705cab6c1dc), aired 17 September 1951 (59 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux-510917-SunsetBoulevard-GSwansonWmHolden.mp3
1. [Track 1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/7b10d373987a), aired 1 October 1951 (1 h 00 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux-511001-AllAboutEve-BDavisABaxter.mp3
1. [African Queen (Humphrey Bogart, Greer Garson)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/radio-drama/series/otraawards/b69a60defcd6), aired 15 December 1952 (59 min): https://archive.org/download/OTRAAwards/Lux-521215-AfricanQueen-HBogartGGarson.mp3

From the Old Time Radio collection at the Internet Archive, uploaded by the collector named.

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.