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Campbell Playhouse's

"VICTORIA REGINA"

Laurence Houseman

Produced and Scripted by Orson Welles

with

Helen Hayes

PLOT SUMMARY:

Helen Hayes reprises her role in the celebrated play Victoria Regina.
The radio drama chronicles the reign of England's Queen Victoria from her ascension to the throne in 1837 to her Diamond Jubilee.
NOTE: Laurence Houseman’s play, Victoria Regina, played at the Lyric Theatre in 1935 and later on Broadway, where Helen Hayes portrayed the Queen, with Vincent Price in the role of Prince Albert.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air, a show featuring the acclaimed New York drama company founded by Orson Welles and John Houseman. In its brief run, it featured an impressive array of talents, including Agnes Moorehead, Bernard Herrmann, and George Coulouris. The show is famous for its notorious War of the Worlds broadcast, but the other shows in the series are relatively unknown.

The show first broadcast on CBS and CBC in July 1938. It ran without a sponsor until December of that year, when it was picked up by Campbell’s Soup and renamed The Campbell Playhouse.

Approximate play time of 1 hour