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Frank Capra's famous film 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'

on National Programme Daventry

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From the original screen play by Robert Riskin.
Adapted for broadcasting and produced by Peter Creswell.
Music arranged by Robert Chignell
With Godfrey Tearle as Longfellow Deeds and June Clyde as Babe Bennett
Other parts played as follows [see below]
Also: Attorneys, reporters, typists, neighbours from Mandrake Falls, Board of Opera Directors, guests at a reception, two hired bodyguards, two Press photographers, farmers, a butler, witnesses, etc., etc.

Thousands of listeners will remember with pleasure the film of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, which was the big film hit of two continents in 1936. They will find that the radio version follows the story closely, being based on the actual dialogue script of the film, and they will probably be happily reminded of many minor incidents and snatches of pithy and amusing dialogue which they had forgotten, but which helped to establish Mr. Deeds as something fresh, stimulating, and altogether satisfying in the way of film stories.
The adventures of the simple‚ 'Cinderella man' make a wide appeal and an instant claim upon your attention. It is a study of human character in relation to the problems and incidents of the common world of today. Everyone has in his own make-up a responsive particle of the fundamental honesty and clarity of vision of Longfellow Deeds - and possibly, like him, everybody is to some extent 'pixielated'!

Pictures from the film will be found on page 7.

Contributors

Play By:
Robert Riskin.
Produced By:
Peter Creswell.
Arranged By:
Robert Chignell
Unknown:
Godfrey Tearle
Unknown:
Longfellow Deeds
Unknown:
June Clyde
Unknown:
Babe Bennett
Corney Cobb, a press agent:
Leslie Bradley
MacWade, editor of the Morning Mail:
Frank Cram
John Cedar, an attorney:
Edward Stuart
From Mandrake Falls:
Jane Falkner: Helen Henschel
Amy Falkner:
Gwen Day Burroughs
Mr Semple, a claimant:
Paul Vernon
Mrs. Semple, his wife:
Mary Alice Collins
Morrow, a poet:
Sydney Keith
The Hon. John May, Judge of the Supreme Court:
Michael Moore
Mabel Dawson, a friend of Babe Bennett:
Cecilia Eddy
Mrs. Meredith, Longfellow Deeds's housekeeper:
Ethel Lodge
Dr. Von Hollor, a psychiatrist:
M. Landale
A Farmer:
Peter Madden

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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