Seasonal stuff

[kate_schaefer]

My favorite Christmas movie of all time: The Thin Man.

By several orders of magnitude.

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[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Here's the 1936 Lux Radio Theater version of "The Thin Man" -- an hourlong (with ads) adaptation with a large, large portion of the original cast. Alas, we don't have the scene of Nick shooting balloons off the tree with his BB gun.

And here's the 1940 Lux presentation of

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Here's the 1936 <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Lux01/Lux_36-06-08_The_Thin_Man.mp3">Lux Radio Theater</a> version of "The Thin Man" -- an hourlong (with ads) adaptation with a large, large portion of the original cast. Alas, we don't have the scene of Nick shooting balloons off the tree with his BB gun.

And here's the 1940 Lux presentation of <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Lux05/Lux_40-06-17_After_the_Thin_Man.mp3>"After The Thin Man"</a>, also with many original voices (including, of course, both Nick and Nora, as previously).

And just because I'm so swell, here's their 1944 <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Lux09/Lux_44-01-03_Shadow_of_a_Doubt.mp3">"Shadow of a Doubt,"</a> in which William Powell plays Uncle Charlie.

Highly recommended in passing, Edward G. Robinson as Sam Spade in <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/Lux08/Lux_1943-02-08_TheMalteseFalcon.mp3">"The Maltese Falcon"</a> just because it's so good, but now I have to stop or I'll be recomending things until I fall asleep on the keyboard.

[kate-schaefer.livejournal.com]

You are swell. I think the Lux Theater stuff was a fabulous effort, and I've enjoyed some of the shows when I've run into them from time to time. Radio plays aren't something I seek out on purpose, though.