John Lund

Hi guys and welcome back to the mystery and comedy Old Time radio
podcast please welcome to the show tonight famous film actor and
radio performer Mr John Lund. Mr Lund's first film had him as
star To Each His Own  with Olivia
Havilland for Paramount, in which he played dual roles.
It was written and produced by Charles Brackett and was
popular critically and commercially. Paramount used Lund
as Betty Hutton's leading man in The Perils of
Pauline , of another hit.He was one of many Paramount stars
who made cameos in Variety Girl . Billy Wilder then
cast Lund in A Foreign Affair , as romantic lead to
both Marlene Dietrich and Jean Arthur. It was highly
acclaimed but failed to make him a major star. He
supported Edward G.Robinson in Night Has a Thousand
Eyes. Brackett gave him the lead in a comedy Miss Tatlock's
Millions. He played Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of
Ferrara in Bride of Vengeance 
alongside Paulette Goddard and MacDonald Carey,
following the suspension of Ray Milland the film was
largely ill-received by critics. Hal Wallis used him
in My Friend Irma as Al, boyfriend of Irma with Ms Marie
Wilson as Irma. The film is best remembered however for
introducing Martin and Lewis Jerry Lewis had meant to
play the role of Al but realized he was miscast. He
supported Barbara Stanwyck in No Man of Her
Own and reprised his performance as Al in My Friend Irma
Goes West . Paramount announced Union Station for him
but William Holden ended up playing it. Lund went over to
MGM to play the false love interest in Duchess of Idaho 
with Esther Williams and Van Johnson. Brackett gave
him another good role in The Mating Season ,
alongside Gene Tierney, Miriam Hopkins, and Thelma
Ritter. He was Joan Fontaine's leading man in Darling,
How Could You! . Paramount wanted to loan him to Universal
for Week-End with Father but he refused and was put on
suspension. but what a lot of people may not know is that Mr John
one also appeared in the old time radio show Johnny Dollar until
1954. in this first episode Mr John line plays a man who is the co
captain on a yacht as they are leaving Venezuela he has a very
poisonous snake to halt to the United States. so he informs the
passengers about it but he tells them not to worry. but
unfortunately mother nature hits when a big wave moves the boat.
then causes the snake to be able to get out of his cage. so he
tries his best to look for the snake. and it is called a shipment
of mute freight. and then this next episode he plays the man who
has worked for a GM of a hotel for years now and each day at 3:00
they always sit down for coffee but unfortunately for the man
instead of enjoying this experience with his boss he hates it. so
he works for the hotel as the assistant manager and one day when
the maids are refusing to go in the room and clean a room because
of rats. he decides to go in the room and is introduced by a doctor
who is conducting an experiment on the rats. so the doctor tells
him about this yellow powder that is called 6r which causes the
victim in slow amounts excruciating pain until they unfortunately
die. so the man has an idea in order to get the job of his dreams.
he has to eliminate his competition which is the GM himself. but
unfortunately for the man he does not know that his boss knows what
he is doing until it becomes too late. and the title of that
episode is called experiment 6-r which appeared on suspense in
1949. I hope you guys enjoy Mr John Lund and his performance on the
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