Barbara Stanwyck : Sorry Wrong Number, Stella Dallas (Radio Movie Classics) [Audio Cassette]

Radio Spirits (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1998 | Series: Radio Movie Classics

Fill up at the concession stand before taking a front row seat to watch your favorite classic movies on radio! Each of these 2-cassette collections features the complete and unedited radio adaptations of classic movies as originally broadcast on the Lux Radio Theatre. These dramatic double features include the original commercials and have been digitally restored and remastered for your listening ease. Also includes special introduction by WNBC-TV movie critic Jeffrey Lyons. Radio Movie Classics Starring Barbara Stanwyck in "SORRY, WRONG NUMBER" 01-09-50 AND "STELLA DALLAS" 10-11-37

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Not to be missed by vintage movie and old time radio fans is Radio Spirits' new collection featuring Lux Radio Theatre original audio plays. These programs, broadcast in the ''30's and '40's, were adapted from the most famous movies featuring film stars Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck and director Alfred Hitchcock. Each two-cassette program features two original shows which include radio play and interviews with the stars. Broadcast when the stars were in their heyday, the radio plays have all the flavor and vivacity of the screen versions, and each fascinating overview to the careers of the stars adds more context to these great programs. R.F.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Radio Spirits (April 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570191344
• ISBN-13: 978-1570191343
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This review is from: Barbara Stanwyck : Sorry Wrong Number, Stella Dallas (Radio Movie Classics) (Audio Cassette)

These two Radio Movie Classics are broadcasts of the Lux Radio Program, a popular radio show that brought famous actors to the radio to recreate roles from films. Cecil B. DeMille ran the show as the host, but the film stars were the ones that really shone.

Before the broadcasts, an announcer explains the show and goes over the life of Barbara Stanwyck briefly. Then the show begins.

First we have Stella Dallas, a film that really helped Stanwyck to remain a star in Hollywood. She transforms from a young woman to an old lady. First, she is an excited but poor girl who meets a rich man who is willing to transform her. When she does not take well to society manners, the two divorce and share their daughter. Over the years, the two become very close, but Stanwyck has to make many sacrifices for her daughter.

Sorry, Wrong Number is a film noir from later in Stanwyck's career. She plays a bedridden woman who hears through telephone coversations and such that a murder is going to take place. Bit by bit, she learns that the killer might just be after her!

Both programs are read with heart on the part of Stanwyck and are interesting to hear for major fans of her work.