Mentions of the Plaza, the Ritz, taxi cabs, and street names are all name-checked in An Apartment to Let. The scenario closely adheres to scores of Parker short fiction of couples in disagreement, conversation that sparkles with wit and pathos, and a Manhattan urban setting. “An Apartment House Anthology” (1921) and “Dusk Before Fireworks” (1932), and many more, were all set in similar situations: A Manhattan apartment building. It follows many similar storylines that Parker had written over the years, even before she met Campbell in 1932. The play they wrote for CBS is called Apartment to Let. The pinnacle of their screenwriting career was the Academy Award nomination for A Star Is Born in 1935. A well-paid team at the height of the American Depression, they could afford a rented mansion in Beverly Hills and a second home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Into this spectrum came the team of Parker and Campbell, who had been working as a popular Hollywood screenwriting team for more than five years. These were a season of a dozen radio plays by top authors and writers of the 1930s, as well as classic works in the public domain. In addition to broadcasting concert symphonies and opera, the network was also funding the Columbia Workshop Festival. Columbia (CBS) was at the time producing radio shows to try and demonstrate to the pubic (and Congress) the power of bringing quality cultural programming to the masses. About the broadcast from August 31, 1939.
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