Happy Star Wars Day 2024

This is a really fun recreation of Star Wars (Episode IV – A New Hope) done in the style of an Old-Time Radio broadcast of Lux Radio Theater, using voice talent to recreate a cast that would have been appropriate for the 1940s. These are of course talented people doing voice reproductions for these fine actors below.

Here is a list of the Cast:

Luke Skywalker………….Mickey Rooney

Han Solo……………………Humphrey Bogart

Princess Leia……………..Katharine Hepburm

Grand Moff Tarkin……..Eric Von Strohelm

Obiwan Kenobi………….Jimmy Stewart

C3PO………………………..Oliver Hardy

R2D2………………………..Stan Laurel

Chewbacca………………..Rin-Tin-Tin

Darth Vader……………….Bela Lugosi

Uncle Owen……………….Jack Benny

Aunt Beru………………….Mae West

General Dodonna………..JackWebb

Red Leader…………………John Wayne

Red Two (Wedge)……….Henry Aldridge

Red Three (Biggs)……….Ronald Coleman

Red Six (Porkins)………..Orson Wells

Red Nine…………………….Groucho Marx

Red Seven…………………..Harpo Marx

Red Ten……………………..Chico Marx

Gold Leader……………….Curly Howard

Gold Two…………………..Larry Fine

Gold Five…………………..Moe Howard

Admiral Motti…………….Edward G. Robinson

Commander Togge……..Peter Lorre

Imperial Commander….Basil Rathbone

Imperial Officer…………Claude Rains

Imperial Announcer……Boris Karloff

Dr. Evazan………………..Ed Wynn

Greedo……………………..Keye Luke

Bartender………………….Sheldon Leonard

Technician………………..Gale Gordon

Narrator……………………Tadoo Tomomatsu

Host…………………………Cecil B. DeMille

This is from a CD that was available from the web site www.luxtheater.com for a short time, and was a Live Broadcast recording. The discs are no longer available and neither is the web site. I have created the two files and made them into one for ease of listening. I wanted to share this with everybody that has never heard it and those that have heard it and want to hear it again if they did not get a hold of it. I bought it from the site years ago and continue to listen to them several times a year.

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