Screen Guild Theater
The Awful Truth
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Screen Guild Theater brought Hollywood performers to radio in dramatic adaptations of popular films and other stories. The program’s appeal lies in hearing familiar screen talent work in a different medium, where voices, dialogue, and sound effects carry the action.
Each broadcast presents a self-contained story, with a cast performing scenes adapted for radio. This recording features The Awful Truth, a romantic comedy built around a married couple whose misunderstandings and attempts to outwit one another drive the story. The radio format turns the film’s verbal sparring and comic situations into an intimate performance centered on the actors’ voices.
The result combines polished Hollywood-style acting with the immediacy of live radio drama. It offers a compact way to experience a well-known screen story through performance and dialogue rather than images.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.