ERNST LUBITSCH The Radio Years

[JFK]

A Thread Dedicated to Lubitsch Radio Appearances, Directing Jobs, Adaptations

SCREEN GUILD THEATER
Miss Brown of Worcester (An Original Musical) (01-15-1939)
Directed By Ernst Lubitsch
Written by Arthur Sheekman And Dwight Taylor
STARRING George Murphy, Fred Astaire, Herbert Marshall,
Franklin Pangborn, Loretta Young, Gino Corrado

SCREEN GUILD THEATER
"Why Jack Is Not Going to Appear on Show" (10-20-1940)
Written by Bill Morrow And Ed Beloin
STARRING Jack Benny, Ernst Lubitsch, Claudette Colbert,
Edward Arnold, Basil Rathbone

SCREEN GUILD THEATER
To Be Or Not To Be (01-18-1943)
STARRING William Powell, Diana Lewis, Jon Hall, Sig Ruman
Powell in the Benny part; Lewis, his 3rd wife, in the role played by his 2nd wife

SCREEN GUILD THEATER
Ninotchka (04-21-1940)
STARRING Rosalind Russell, Spencer Tracy
Dedicated to the ill Lubitsch

SCREEN GUILD THEATER
Ninotchka (10-23-1944)
STARRING Robert Young, Signe Hasso

SCREEN GUILD THEATER
The Shop Around The Corner (09-29-1940)
STARRING Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan,
Roger Pryor, Jean Hersholt

LUX RADIO THEATER
The Shop Around The Corner (06-23-1941)
STARRING Claudette Colbert, Don Ameche, Felix Bressart
Cecil B. DeMille

LUX RADIO THEATER
Heaven Can Wait (10-11-1943)
STARRING Don Ameche, Maureen O'Hara, Arthur Q Bryan (as Satan),
Verna Felton, Cecil B. DeMille

SCREEN GUILD THEATER
Heaven Can Wait (05-07-1945)
STARRING Walter Pidgeon, Susan Hayward, John Carradine (as Satan),
Arthur Q. Bryan (in full Fudd mode)

Colgate's THEATER OF ROMANCE
Heaven Can Wait (08-21-1945)
STARRING Karl Swenson, Betty Winkler

SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE
Cluny Brown (11-23-1950)
STARRING Dorothy McGuire, Charles Boyer, Joseph Mankiewicz AND Billy Wilder

[bobfells]

Thanks JFK. I can highly recommend the second show in your list, "Why Jack Benny is Not Going to Appear." Not only does Lubitsch play a big role in the broadcast but it has a dream cast. The story was written by Benny's writers and he would recycle it again over the years. Another Screen Guild broadcast from 1944 substitutes director Michael Curtiz, Barbara Stanwyck, Jean Hersholt and Vincent Price for Lubitsch, Colbert, Arnold, and Rathbone, respectively.