Lux Radio Theatre - Pinocchio
Channel: Old Time Radio Researchers
Date: 2017-02-27

12/25/39, episode 243
This episode provided by the Old Time Radio Researchers Group
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Additional information from David Goldin:

The famous Italian story, as interpreted by the Disney movie. The adventures of the little puppet who wanted to be a real boy. The Disney film had not yet been released at the time of this broadcast. No cast credits were announced during the broadcast, and no studio audience was present (the applause was recorded).

Credits: Walter Catlett (Honest John), Stuart Buchanan (Gideon, Barker #2), Dickie Jones (Pinocchio), Charles Judels (Stromboli, coachman), Frankie Darro (Lampwick), Cecil B. DeMille, Cliff Edwards (Jiminy Cricket), Louis Silvers (music director), Melville Ruick (announcer), Christian Rub (Geppetto), Evelyn Venable (Blue Fairy), Grace Nielson (Blue Fairy singing voice), Earl Hodgins (Barker #1), Florence Gill (Cuckoo, Figaro), Joe Pennario (Alexander), Clarence Straight (Donkey, Barker #3), Ernest Carlson, Jean Carlson, Jean Forsyth, Eric Burtis Jr. (performer, commercial spokesman), Jackie Morrison (performer, commercial spokesman), Bobby Larson (commercial spokesman), Barbara Jean Wong (commercial spokesman), Frederick Shields (commercial spokesman), Nancy Leach (commercial spokesman), Julie Bannon (commercial spokesman), Margaret Brayton (commercial spokesman: as "Libby Collins"), Sanford Barnett (director), George Wells (adaptor), Charlie Forsyth (sound effects), Ted Sears (screenwriter), Webb Smith (screenwriter), Joseph Sabo (screenwriter), Otto Englander (screenwriter), William Cottrell (screenwriter), Erdman Penner (screenwriter), Aurelius Battaglia (screenwriter), Carlo Collodi (author)