In the episode of the Phil Harris and Alice Faye radio show
entitled “Movie Role,” from 24 April 1949, the executives of the movie studio
are trying to get Alice to go back into pictures, and decide that they will
offer Phil a bit part so he will stop refusing to let Alice go into pictures.
Faye had famously left movies after Fallen Angel, which was released in 1945,
when her parts were cut to allow more time for Linda Darnell. Also, she wanted
more time to be with her family, as her two daughters had been born in 1942 and
1944. Since her contract has called for her to make two more pictures, she was
blackballed for breach of contract by Darryl Zanuck, and did not appear in
pictures again until 1962. This episode is obviously poking fun at the movie
industry for letting Faye get away.
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