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Old Time Radio Mystery, Suspense, & Horror

OTR MSH 69 To Find Help

Old Time Radio Mystery, Suspense, & Horror

Dakoda Black

Society & Culture

4.5676 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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0:00.0

Another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying.

0:06.0

I hope you will enjoy the trip that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

0:13.0

So settle back.

0:16.0

Get a good grip on your nerves.

0:19.0

Where are we going?

0:24.2

You'll find out when we get there.

0:29.8

Hey, everybody.

0:32.2

Welcome back to the podcast.

0:42.3

All right, so I've got a good play for you guys today from suspense, and it's called To Find Help.

0:49.1

And this one stars Ethel Barrymore and Gene Kelly.

0:55.7

So I'll say a few quick words about Ethel Barrymore, and then we'll get into the play, and then I'll say a few quick words after the play today about Gene Kelly.

1:00.3

Ethel Barrymore was born August 15, 1879, and she was an American actress and was regarded as the first lady of the American theater.

1:16.5

Her career spanned six decades.

1:20.6

Little interesting tidbit of information here, Winston Churchill asked her at some point to marry him, and she turned him down,

1:34.3

saying that she did not want to be a politician's wife.

1:39.3

After she became a stage star, she would often dismiss the audiences who kept demanding curtain calls

1:48.2

by saying, that's all there is, there isn't anymore. This became a popular catchphrase in the

1:56.4

20s and the 30s. After doing a bunch of stage work in the early 1900s, she appeared in her first

2:06.4

feature motion picture, the Nightingale, in 1914. She made 15 silent pictures between 1914 and

2:17.4

1919. A few of her silent films have 15 silent pictures between 1914 and 1919.

2:19.4

A few of her silent films have survived, one of them being the awakening of Helena

2:26.6

Richie of 1916, which survives at the Library of Congress.

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