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Matinee Theater

1944–1945 · 22 episodes · 28 listens

This series was previously broadcast from July 2nd 1944 under the name Dangerously Yours. 21 of the 25 episodes are extant.

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VVictor JoryActorGGertrude WarnerActor

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Episodes

Apr 1, 1945 · 29:32
Every once in a while there springs to life a love story so beautiful that it becomes the ideal, and the essence of all…
Apr 8, 1945 · 29:04
A Man Named Jones is an original play about an American hero in Russia. Written by Jean Holloway and based on material…
Dec 10, 1944 · 30:00
Matinee Theater presents Hold Back The Dawn Paramount Pictures 1941 exciting romantic drama starring Charles Boyer.…
Dec 17, 1944 · 29:30
Elizabeth The Queen is the dramatic romance of Elizabeth The First, queen of England from November 1558 until her death…
Dec 24, 1944 · 29:19
A Stable In Bethlehem Pennsylvania is a most unusual Christmas play. It is a modern miracle play with a special…
Dec 3, 1944 · 30:00
Jane Eyre is a love story as wild and unpredictable as a storm over the English moors where Charlotte Bronte, the…
Feb 11, 1945 · 29:40
Reap The Wild Wind is set in Key West in 1835. It is a story of love and ships and the old time wreckers of the Florida…
Feb 18, 1945 · 29:50
Intermezzo is a love story of a world famous violinist named Holger Brandt and a young piano student named Anita…
Feb 25, 1945 · 30:19
Matinee Theater present the memorable story of romance and high adventure based on the Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)famous…
Jan 14, 1945 · 29:07
Smilin Through is one of the great romantic classic of the American theater. John Carteret had been carrying a hatred…
Jan 21, 1945 · 28:56
Matinee Theater brings you Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca featuring Gertrude Warner as the second Mrs De Winter, Blanch…
Jan 28, 1945 · 29:50
This is the story of Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) the composer of such great American tunes as Oh! Susanna…
Jan 7, 1945 · 29:20
Novel by: James Hilton (1941)
Mar 11, 1945 · 29:00
There are many stories and many legends about the romance of Marie Vescera and Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. The…
Mar 18, 1945 · 29:10
This swashbuckling romance deals with the stirring days of the early 1800’s. It takes you to the high seas of adventure…
Mar 25, 1945 · 28:29
Till We Meet Again by Matinee Theater is a request performance of Paramount Picture’s film which starred Ray Milland…
Nov 12, 1944 · 29:25
This is an unforgettable love story of two people and their marriage and what it is to them and for them, Julie Carey…
Nov 19, 1944 · 29:12
The Scarlet Pimpernel is one of the most dashing figures of legend. He was a man of a hundred disguises who lived an…
Nov 26, 1944 · 30:21
Victor Jory and Betty Winkler star in this romantic comedy that was a RKO screen success in 1941 starring Robert…
Nov 5, 1944 · 29:51
Matinee Theater brings you one of the most amusing love stories ever told, Leo McCarey’s delightful comedy romance, My…
Oct 22, 1944 · 30:01
Wuthering Heights is a tragic love story set on the moors of Howarth in the North of England during the 19th century.…
Oct 29, 1944 · 30:01
This is one of the most memorable love stories ever told adapted from Samuel Goldwyn's motion picture. The story opens…
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