Is Zat So? began as a play written by James Gleason and Richard Taber and produced by George Brinton McLellan and ran for 634 performances in New York's 39th Street Theatre, and opened the same year at the Adelphi Theatre in London.. The comedy, starring Gleason, Sidney Riggs, and Armstrong, featured two brothers -- a boxer and his manager -- who are hired by a high society gent to teach him how to fight. Lurking in the wings is an unscrupulous brother-in-law, eager to gain control of the man's and his sister's inheritance.
The play was adapted as a silent film in 1927, featuring George O'Brien, Edmund Lowe, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., and directed by Alfred E. Green from a script by Philip Klein. the only known copies of the film were destroyed in the 1937 Fox film fire, and it is now considered a lost film.
Lux Radio Theatre, ran from 1934 to 1955 on, first, the NBX Blue Network, then consecutively on ABC, CBS, and NBC Radio. For the first two seasons, the program dramatized Broadway plays, before moving on to recent films; a singular effort was made to feature the original stars of the plays and films whenever possible, usually paying them $6000 for an appearance. The hour-long show was recorded in front of a live audience. The show continued on television as Lux Video Theatre through the 1950s. Cecil B. DeMille served as host of the show from 1936 to the beginning of 1945.
Robert Armstrong, who appeared in the original Broadway play, is featured in this adaptation, along with James Cagney and Boots Mallory.
Enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_UrZ4gpn8M&list=PLlUoyloCGlWzovaTaxVhZfMH9C0StdA95&index=14
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