The Barker {Claudette Colbert, Walter Huston}
About This Broadcast
A carnival barker's plans for his son's respectable future collapse when the young man falls for a snake charmer and chooses the carnival life.
This Lux Radio Theatre broadcast aired on July 20, 1936. It is listed as episode 36 in the archive. CBS Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Walter Huston, Norman Foster, Harlan Briggs, Isabel Withers, and William Royal. Other credited names include Frank Woodruff as director, George Wells as radio adaptor, Cecil B. DeMille as host, Frank Nelson as announcer, and Melville Ruick as announcer.
The surviving recording runs about 60 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Lux.
This version dramatizes The Barker. Kenyon Nicholson is credited as author.
A major dramatic anthology adapting popular motion pictures and stage works for radio, usually with prominent Hollywood actors and often with stars recreating their film roles.
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Cecil B. DeMille