CAMPBELL PLAYHOUSE: ARROWSMITH (RADIO)
Summary
One in this weekly drama series featuring adaptations of popular and literary classics. Orson Welles introduces the drama as one of a number of plays, books, and films about heroes of medicine. The story opens with Martin Arrowsmith receiving a science research award, which prompts memories of his early days in medical school and his mentor, Prof. Gottlieb. The drama is told in flashback. Arrowsmith meets and marries nurse-in-training Leora. They move to her hometown, where he sets up his first practice and continues his research. He loses his patients' confidence, however, because of a misdiagnosis. Arrowsmith works on a vaccine with Gottlieb. He and Leora travel to a plague-ridden tropical island to test the vaccine, but Leora contracts a disease and dies. The program ends with Welles and Hayes discussing her family life on a farm in Nyack, New York; an announcement of the following week's drama, "The Green Goddess" with Madeleine Carroll; and closing credits. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: February 3, 1939 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 1:00:00
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R87:0542
- GENRE: Radio - Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama
- SERIES RUN: CBS - Radio series, 1938-1940
- COMMERCIALS:
- Radio - Commercials - Campbell's soup
- Radio - Promos - "Campbell Playhouse"
CREDITS
- Orson Welles … Producer, Director, Host
- Sinclair Lewis … Writer, Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel , "Arrowsmith" by
- Bernard Herrmann … Music (Misc. Credits), Conductor, Music arranged and conducted by
- Ernest Chappell … Announcer
- Orson Welles … Cast, Martin Arrowsmith
- Helen Hayes … Cast, Leora Arrowsmith
- Ray Collins … Cast, Professor Gottlieb
- Frank Readick … Cast, Sondelius
- Al Swenson … Cast, Henry Novak
- Effie Palmer … Cast, Mrs. Tozer
- Carl Frank … Cast, Dr. Stoups
- Everett Sloane … Cast, Mr. Tozer