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The Lux Radio Theatre

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    In radio: Film-based anthology shows

    …intensified with the premiere of The Lux Radio Theatre in 1934. By 1936 the program was hosted by Paramount’s famous director-producer Cecil B. DeMille. From this point on, almost all the stories used on Lux were drawn from movies, and most of the shows employed the stars who had appeared…

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    In Golden Age of American radio

    …film-based anthology shows such as The Lux Radio Theatre and Academy Award Theater featured movie stars of the day reading live radio versions of their motion-picture roles. In 1938 Welles’s radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’s science-fiction tale The War of the Worlds created panic when listeners failed to hear the…

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