Episode 427 – My Fair Rex (Private Files of Rex Saunders & Academy Award)
Down These Mean Streets (Old Time Radio Detectives) - A podcast by Mean Streets Podcasts
Before he won a Tony and an Oscar as Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, Rex Harrison had a brief stint as a radio private eye. We'll hear the star of stage and screen as a debonair detective in a pair of episodes from The Private Files of Rex Saunders - "The Most Malignant of Diseases...Namely Murder" (originally aired on NBC on June 27, 1951) and "Until Death Do Us Part" (originally aired on NBC on July 18, 1951). Then, he recreates his big screen role as a British spy out to save a scientist and his daughter from the Nazis in "Night Train" from Academy Award (originally aired on CBS on November 13, 1946).
