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Screen Guild Players, otherwise known as The Screen Guild Theater, was one of the most popular drama anthology series during the Golden Age of Radio. From its first broadcast in 1939, up to its farewell in 1952, the show was able to showcase radio adaptations of some of the most popular Hollywood films back then. A lot of popular Hollywood names became part of the show, including Bette Davis, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, and many more. The actors’ fees for their performance were all donated to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, an organization that provides aid to retired actors.

Screen Guild Players was heard on different radio networks, beginning from CBS from 1939 to 1948, on NBC from 1948 to 1950, on ABC from 1950 to 1951, and finally, back to CBS until its last episode on June 29, 1952. Throughout its run, a total of 527 episodes were produced. Click here to read more about Screen Guild Theater, The


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 03.22.1943 for me and my gal

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 03.15.1943 palm beach story

 03.08.1943 stand by for action

+ Reprising their film roles, Charles Laughton plays the role of Admiral Steven Thomas and Brian Don...
 03.01.1943 this above all

+ The story begins in England in June 1940 during WWII and young Miss Prudence Cathaway of Cathaway ...
 02.22.1943 louisiana purchase

+ The Screen Guild Players appear in their streamlined version of Paramount Pictures Louisiana Purch...
 02.15.1943 they got me covered

+ Screen Guild Theater presents an exciting radio preview of Samuel Goldwyn’s comedy hit They Got ...
 02.08.1943 hold back the dawn

+ Charles Boyer plays his original screen role of George Iscovescu an international confidence man a...
 02.01.1943 dodsworth

 01.25.1943 across the pacific

 01.18.1943 to be or not to be

+ In this comedy drama William Powell plays the role of that great Polish actor Josef Tura, Diana Le...
 01.11.1943 holiday inn

Screen Guild Players present musical highlights from Paramount Pictures’ tuneful film Holiday Inn ...
 01.04.1943 suspicion

 12.28.1942 the male animal

+ Olivia De Havilland reprises Ellen Turner the role she played in the 1942 Warner Brothers motion p...
 12.21.1942 the juggler of our lady

+ A compelling Christmas tale of Barnaby, a poor travelling juggler, who travelled from town to town...
 12.14.1942 mr and mrs smith

 11.30.1942 ball of fire

 11.23.1942 bachelor mother

 11.09.1942 take a letter darling

+ Tom Verney applies for a personal secretary job in an advertising agency. He is going to see A.M. ...
 10.26.1942 a yank in the raf

+ It's 1940, and Tim Baker, a young American pilot, has learned he can make $1000 a flight, ferrying...
 10.19.1942 yankee doodle dandy

The Screen Guild Players star in musical highlights from Warner Brothers motion picture Yankee Doodl...
 04.19.1942 a womans face

+ Metro Goldwyn Meyer’s screen success A Woman’s Face is the story of a woman who commits murder...

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The Screen Guild Theater is a popular radio anthology series during the Golden Age of Radio, broadcast from 1939 until 1952

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This series is referred to as The Screen Guild Theater, but had many three titles depending on sponsor of the program when it was broadcast. It was broadcast as Gulf Screen Guild Theater while sponsored by Gulf Oil Company on CBS from January 8, 1939 to April 19, 1942. From October 19, 1942 to July 7, 1947, the program continued to be broadcast on CBS, and the title was The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater. From October 6, 1947 to June 28, 1948, the program continued on CBS as The Camel Screen Guild Theater, then NBC picked the show up and it was broadcast from October 7, 1948 to June 29, 1950. Beginning September 7, 1950 to May 31, 1951 ABC broadcast The Camel Screen Guild Theater. After the end of the series, the program had a subtitle of Screen Guild Players, and was broadcast on such series as Stars In The Air, and Hollywood Soundstage. From April 6, to June 29, 1952, CBS revived the series on Sundays as a sustained network program. As Lux Radio did, Screen Guild presented current movies, with the leads played by the stars of the movie. Over the years, very little attention has been paid to this series except by major collectors, who have known for many years, that this is a great entertaining series.

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Motion Picture Relief Fund incorporation announced just under the wire for 1924, dated December 29, 1924
Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in United Artists publicity photo, ca. 1927
The Associated Actors & Artistes of America negotiated with the AFL-CIO on behalf of the Actors' Equity Association to develop their charter
The resulting Actors' Equity Association was chartered in 1913 (here pictured a membership card for 1922)
Original Screen Actors Guild badge, ca. 1933
Screen Actors' Guild founders pose for an impromptu 1940 photo.
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Gulf Oil Corp. sponsored The Screen Guild for Four Seasons
The House of Lady Esther sponsored The Screen Guild for Six Seasons
R.J. Reynolds sponsored The Screen Guild for Three Seasons over two networks
ABC and Buick sponsored The Screen Guild for One Season
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Please visit the Saving The Lives or Our Own website to learn what you can do about this travesty, if the Motion Picture and Television industries won't.
Billboard article of May 9, 1942 citing Gulf's contribution of 10,000 dollars to the Motion Picture Relief Fund for each performance of the Gulf Screen Guild programs. That's about 134,000 dollars per episode in 2010 dollars.
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