Burgess Meredith reads Ray Bradbury LP - Free US S&H
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This is a 12" LP record of Burgess Meredith reads Ray Bradbury - Burgess Meredith reading two of Ray Bradbury's short stories ("There Will Come Soft Rains" and "Marionettes, Inc.") Recorded in 1962 by Prestige Records - Lively Arts 30004.
"There Will Come Soft Rains" is a short story which was included in the collection The Martian Chronicles. The story details the daily tasks of a robotic house after its inhabitants have died in a nuclear war. The title comes from Sara Teasdale's poem, "There Will Come Soft Rains", which also treats a post-apocalyptic setting.
"Marionettes, Inc.", is from the collection of short stories, The Illustrated Man. In it, Bradbury conjures a conflict between man and machine and depicts the human dependence on technology, a common theme for Bradbury's stories.
Ray Bradbury (born August 22, 1920) is an American mainstream, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer. Best known for his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury is widely considered one of the greatest and most popular American writers of speculative fiction of the twentieth century.
Burgess Meredith was one of the truly great and gifted performers of the 20th century who often suffered lesser roles, Meredith was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1907 and educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts before joining Eva Le Gallienne's stage company in New York City in 1933. He became a favorite of dramatist Maxwell Anderson, premiering on film in the playwright's Winterset (1936). Served in the Air Force in WWII. He continued in a variety of dramatic and comedic roles until being named an unfriendly witness by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the early 1950s, whereupon studio work disappeared. His career picked up again, especially with television roles, in the 1960s, although younger audiences know him best for either the Rocky (1976) or Grumpy Old Men (1993) films. Meredith also did a large amount of commercial work, serving as the voice for Skippy Peanut Butter and United Air Lines, among others. He was also an ardent environmentalist who believed pollution one of the greatest tragedies of the time, and an opponent of the Vietnam War.
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