Dracula Starring Lorne Greene

SANWAL CBC Radio

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ANNOUNCER: Stage 49 item 30. Dracula by Bram Stoker. Dramatized for Radio by George Salverson. Starring Lorne Greene as Count Dracula and Alan King as Jonathan Harker, with Lister Sinclair. Produced and Directed by Andrew Allen, with an original music score composed and conducted by Lucio Agusini. E-1084-38. Dracula (Bram Stoker) CBC Stage, 24 Apr. 1949 Producer: Andrew Allan, Toronto, Trans-Canada Network, 60 min., 48 pp., M002705 No. 30 of Stage 49. Concordia: production ts; CBC: sound; Public Archives: production ts, sound E-1084-39. Rebroadcast (Bram Stoker) Greene, Lorne (1915-1987) http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/in... Alan King was a prominent actor and writer on CBC radio. Lister Sinclair http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/cbc-broad... Allan, Andrew (1907-1974) http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/in... George Salverson CBC Radio's first drama editor dies George Salverson, a talented writer and dramatist, and CBC Radio’s first-ever Radio Drama Editor, passed away last week. He was 89. Son of Governor-General Award-winning novelist Laura Goodman Salverson, George was an incredibly prolific and versatile writer, penning popular radio plays, television shows and films in a variety of genres. George’s many radio plays entertained Canadian listeners during CBC Radio’s Golden Age, when entire families would gather around the radio for an evening’s entertainment. Along with contemporaries Len Peterson, Bill Mitchell and Bill Strange, George created popular dramas that were relevant to the times and the listeners. Among the plays he brought to CBC Radio: his wonderful 1949 adaptation of Dracula, starring Lorne Green, Alan King and Lister Sinclair.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.