Radio review – Lux#484 – “And Now Tomorrow” (1945) *1/2

Preston Sturges, of all people, introduces this version of the Loretta Young-Alan Ladd sudser. Being radio it’s hard to get the impression that Young is ever deaf (you really need visual cues to convey that). It’s still interesting for Ladd fans because the role – basically the dedicated, hard working doctor in a soapy – is so atypical for his career, but that doesn’t disguise the fact that his performance is a wit wonky; his voice (superb for radio) here sounds nasally and he talks too fast. Was he nervous? It also throws you to hear the audience laughing (they’re laughing with the production not at it, but its disconcerting nonetheless; as it would be come to think of it whenever I hear it in a Lux production.) The story isn’t that much more interesting than it was in the film – which is to say not very interesting at all.