Lux Radio Theater the Ghost and Mrs. Muir with Visual accompaniment

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The Lux Radio Theatre. December 1, 1947. "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir". Sponsored by: Lux, Pepsodent. A romance between an impoverished British lady and the dashing ghost of a sea captain. + Some 50 years ago in London a young widow, Lucy Muir left the home of her mother and sister of her departed husband and boarded a train. With her went her small daughter Anna and her servant Martha. They were running away to a small village called Whitecliff and Mrs Muir set her mind on Gull Cottage. The agent Mr Coombes tried to discourage her as the previous owner a Mariner who had committed suicide haunted it. But this news made Mrs. Muir more interested in the cottage... + In this unusual, delightful comedy Mrs. Muir takes on the old cottage of Captain Gregg by the seaside in England. The house has been empty for four years and Mr. Coombs is reluctant to rent it because the ghost of Captain Gregg who supposedly committed suicide there haunts it. However, Mrs. Muir is fascinated and decides to take the cottage. Mrs. Muir meets the ghost of Captain Gregg and after their initial disagreeable encounter Captain Gregg decides to let her stay in the house on a trial basis. Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater, a classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue Network (1934–35) (owned by the National Broadcasting Company, later predecessor of American Broadcasting Company [ABC] in 1943–1945); CBS Radio network (Columbia Broadcasting System) (1935–54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially, the series adapted Broadway plays[1] 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.

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