Boxcars711 Old Time Radio Pod - Academy Award Theater "Lost Angel" (12-18-46)

Stars and movies with Oscars were the idea - in
most cases, the movie stars recreated their academy award roles for the show,
or in other cases, fine actors played the parts and gave it a different
character. Both ways make for great radio drama and first class Hollywood
motion picture star entertainment. The Lux Radio Theater had been doing
this kind of radio show in the grandest manner for many years, but sponsor
Squibb had the hubris and deep pockets to take on the competition by doing Academy
Award Theater right after the Second World War. The year 1946 was
pre-television, and so movies were still the major American visual art form,
with radio the other popular network entertainment. In this final pre-TV time, Academy
Award Theater was thought of as a premier radio production, a wow show,
much like CinemaScope was to be in the 1950's when Hollywood felt the box
office blow of early TV.

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