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Swanee River
Description
Stephen Foster's life is told in this musical radio show. It takes ideas from the real story of Stephen Foster, a famous 1800s songwriter, and adapts a 1939 movie made by 20th Century Fox. Dennis Morgan plays a songwriter from Pittsburgh who becomes charmed by the South. He marries a beautiful Southern woman named Frances Gifford. When the Civil War starts, people wrongly accuse him of supporting the North.
Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) ; CBS Radio network (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live before studio audiences. The series became the most popular dramatic anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. The primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand.
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