Love and Jealousy in Old Time Radio Collection

For all its seeming complexity, love and being in love is really a very simple emotion. It is a condition where the happiness of another person becomes more important than your own.

Jealousy, on the other hand, is a rather complex and unhealthy emotion. The so-called "green-eyed monster" manifests with a combination of feelings, sometimes including anger, resentment, fear, inadequacy, and abandonment.

A noted philosopher once wrote that a mature, well-adjusted person is incapable of jealousy. There is, however, a school of thought, which is popular with romantic comedy writers, that jealousy is, in fact, a manifestation of love. The greater one's jealousy, the deeper one's affection must run.

• The Cavalcade of America, September 6, 1943, Red Network, sponsored by DuPont, "Double Play". Steve Yancy and his kid-brother Harry have been close their whole lives, and when Harry wants something his big brother does his best to make it happen. At Annapolis, they were baseball double play specialists. Later, each of their ships is in Hawaii, and they both fall in love with Sandra, but everything changes after December 7. Steve's destroyer is sent to rescue Harry's sub, but there is an enemy cruiser nearby. Can a destroyer and a damaged submarine pull of another double play? And what about Sandra?
• The Lux Radio Theatre, October 5, 1954, NBC, AFRTS rebroadcast, "The Turning Point". Adapted from the 1952 film starring William Holden and Edmond O'Brien. Jerry McKibbon is a crusading newspaperman and he is mentoring up and coming prosecutor John Conroy who is working to rid the city of the gangster element. McKibbon's loyalty is tested because he knows that John's father, a cop, is in bed with the mob, but even more, Jerry has feelings for John's girl, Amanda.
• MGM Theater of the Air, January 27, 1950, MGM Syndication, an adaptation of Riptide (1934), starring Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery. Lord Rexford impetuously marries Mary, an American girl. Rexford's aunt heartily approves, but will Mary adapt to life in the English gentry? While Rexford is in America, Mary goes to visit the aunt in the Riviera, and she meets an old flame. When she winds u in what seems like a compromising situation, Rexford loses his cool and asks for a divorce. Not only is Mary innocent, but now there is a child involved.
• The Amos 'n' Andy Show, May 24, 1953, CBS net, sponsored by Rexall. Things are even worse than usual for Sapphire and the Kingfish. Brother-in-law Leroy in town and he has a plan to help them stop fighting, he has one of the old love letters Kingfish wrote to Sapphire years ago. Sapphire finds the letter and thins that Kingfish is after a young girl.
• The Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre, November 13, 1944, CBS, an adaptation of Holiday (1938, starring Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn). Freedom loving bachelor Johnny meets Julia while skiing at Lake Placid and they decide to be married. Johnny is at first delighted to find out that Julia's family is loaded, but slightly cracked due to the domineering banker father. However, he finds a remarkable kinship with vivacious sister Linda. By the end of the picture, Johnny decides that he cannot live in that family, but Julia admits to Linda that she is actually relieved. What about Johnny and Linda?
• The Whistler, February 4, 1948, CBS Pacific net, "Undertow". He goes swimming in the ocean and meets a girl and they fall in love. Unfortunately, she is married to another, but they plan to murder her husband. Be careful not to get whiplash as the double-crosses keep crossing themselves!