All That Glitters
“De Mille would come over CBS radio to proclaim LUX… PRESENTS… HOLLYWOOD!
What those three ringing words meant, only those who likewise heard the Lux Radio Theatre can know. It was true: a soap manufacturer was presenting to the radio-listening nation the glamorous Hollywood everybody worshipped and adored and couldn’t know enough about. In a brief fifty minutes they’d wrap up the whole sad tale of Dark Victory or Stella Dallas, tears, sobs, and all, at the end of which C.B. would come on and ch...at intimately with the stars, Stanwyck or Davis or whoever, and you felt sure that, while broadcasting, Stanwyck was wearing a slinky satin dress and fox furs (she wasn’t) and that Davis had a block-long limousine waiting to take her out dancing (she didn’t). Magical place names like “Hollywood and Vine,” “Del Mar,” and “Trocadéro” and “Lucey’s” and “Toluca Lake” and “Culver City” and “La Brea Tar Pits” sent tremors through you. You got glimpses of the real thing you’d already discovered in such movies as A Star Is Born, or in the MGM newsreel when they concreted Mickey Rooney’s footprints at Grauman’s Chinese.MoreLess
What those three ringing words meant, only those who likewise heard the Lux Radio Theatre can know. It was true: a soap manufacturer was presenting to the radio-listening nation the glamorous Hollywood everybody worshipped and adored and couldn’t know enough about. In a brief fifty minutes they’d wrap up the whole sad tale of Dark Victory or Stella Dallas, tears, sobs, and all, at the end of which C.B. would come on and ch...at intimately with the stars, Stanwyck or Davis or whoever, and you felt sure that, while broadcasting, Stanwyck was wearing a slinky satin dress and fox furs (she wasn’t) and that Davis had a block-long limousine waiting to take her out dancing (she didn’t). Magical place names like “Hollywood and Vine,” “Del Mar,” and “Trocadéro” and “Lucey’s” and “Toluca Lake” and “Culver City” and “La Brea Tar Pits” sent tremors through you. You got glimpses of the real thing you’d already discovered in such movies as A Star Is Born, or in the MGM newsreel when they concreted Mickey Rooney’s footprints at Grauman’s Chinese.MoreLess
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