Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Lux Radio Theater" - Destry Rides Again Starring Jimmy Stewart (11-05-45)

Boxcars711 Overnight Western "Lux Radio Theater" - Destry Rides Again Starring Jimmy Stewart (Aired November 4, 1945) Lux Radio Theater employed several hosts over the following year, eventually choosing William Keighley as the new permanent host, a post he held from late 1945 through 1952. After that, producer-director Irving Cummings hosted the program until it ended in 1955. For its airings on the Armed Forces Radio Service (for which it was retitled Hollywood Radio Theater), the program was hosted by Don Wilson in the early '50s. During its years on CBS in Hollywood, Lux Radio Theater was broadcast from the Lux Radio Playhouse located at 1615 North Vine Street in Hollywood, one block south of the intersection of Hollywood and Vine. THIS EPISODE: November 4, 1945. CBS network. "Destry Rides Again". Sponsored by: Lux. This is a rehearsal recording. William Keighley's first program as the regular "host" and "producer." The mild-mannered but straight-shooting son of the famous Sheriff Destry arrives in town to clean up a bad situation...without six-guns! William Keighley (host), John Milton Kennedy (announcer), Thomas Hanlon (second announcer), Louis Silvers (music director), Frances Robinson, Leo Cleary, Ken Christy, Noreen Gammill, Tommy Cook, Charles Seel (doubles), Dorothy Scott, Joseph Du Val, Ruby Dandridge, Tyler McVey (doubles), Franklyn Parker (doubles), Doris Singleton (singing voice for Joan Blondell, commercial spokesman: as "Libby"), Truda Marson (commercial spokesman: as Merle Oberon), Nancy Gates (intermission guest), Felix Jackson (screenwriter), Gertrude Purcell (screenwriter), Henry Myers (screenwriter), Max Brand (author), Fred MacKaye (director), Sanford Barnett (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Jimmy Stewart, Joan Blondell. 57:28. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.