Screen Guild Theater: A Song for Clotilde (1939)
Notes de l’épisode
Princess Clotilde of Spagesia, reduced to near poverty in Paris, places an advertisement offering her companionship to gentlemen, and her uncle Count Kio goes along to help arrange it. Meanwhile Prince Lothar, who performs as the bandleader Johnny Prince, is preparing to take his band to New York. Their paths cross at a Paris cafe, where a misunderstanding and a series of unlikely schemes begin to tangle their lives together. The Screen Guild Theater broadcast of 19 February 1939 presents this musical comedy, written by Ralph Blum and directed by Robert Z. Leonard, with Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Taylor and Charles Winninger in the leading roles.
With Princess Clotilde, Count Kio, Prince Lothar, Johnny Prince, Jan, Rudolph, Frank.
Listen for: Clotilde's first scene with Count Kio and the advertisement, and the cafe scene where Johnny's band performs for the Paris audience
First aired on February 19, 1939.
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