This is a great story, and a great old movie, but squeezing it into a 60 minute radio show doesn't help it any. I enjoyed listening to it, but I had the benefit of knowing the story backwards and forwards.
The guest trotted out during the intermission is Madame Hilda Grenier, former royal dresser to Queen Mary. One of her prized possessions is a pair of stockings owned by Marie Antoinette, and you'll never believe which soap she chose to wash those precious stockings in!
Lux Radio Theater #197
The Scarlet Pimpernel
12 Dec 1938
19381212(197)_LXRT_TheScarletPimpernel.mp3
Sponsored by Lux soap. Lou Merrill, Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Keith Kenneth, Ramsay Hill, George Pembrook (doubles), Gerald Cornell, Geraldine Peck (doubles), Hilda Grenier (intermission guest), Ethel Sykes, John Toti, Leslie Howard, Olivia De Havilland, Betty Sutter, Cecil B. DeMille, Coral Colebrook, Dave Roberts, Denis Green, Eric Snowden (doubles), Reginald Sheffield (doubles), Vernon Steele, Walter Kingsford, Robert Sherwood (screenwriter), Arthur Wimperis (screenwriter), Sam Berman (screenwriter), Lajos Biro (screenwriter), Baroness Orczy (author, stage adaptor), Montagu Barstow (stage adaptor), Carolyn Newell, Ross Forrester, Frank Nelson (performer, program opening announcer), Marilyn Stuart (commercial spokesman), Betty Jean Hainey (commercial spokesman), Jane Morgan (commercial spokesman), Frank Woodruff (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Eric Burtis (commercial spokesman)
Baronness Orczy, 1920
Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon from The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1934
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