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NBC UNIVERSITY THEATER "The Marble Faun"

Apr 21, 202358 min
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Starring Lynn Bari (born Marjorie Schuyler Fisher, December 18, 1919 – November 20, 1989). A film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 films for 20th Century Fox, from the early 1930s through the 1940s. This episode aired on March 20, 1949 on NBC Radio. The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel'... goodreads.com

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