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I majored in drama in college and knew how to use movement and facial expression, but I never really wanted to do anything except radio acting. I'm in love with speech and language. I love radio drama. I've never been a raving beauty, but radio lets me play glamorous
174:. The latter, 1974's nearly decade nearly decade-long revival of radio's "golden age," was especially gratifying for Raeburn, who recalled, "I was in the last episode of so many of the old radio shows, it was really depressing."
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To which her interviewer immediately appended, "or
Scottish crones, French maids, Spanish dancers, Italian opera singers, British royalty, or whatever else a scriptwriter may dream up." As Raeburn's colleague
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