{"id":62809,"date":"2025-05-16T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62809"},"modified":"2025-05-06T06:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:20:25","slug":"can-you-identify-this-radio-from-the-movie-laura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/can-you-identify-this-radio-from-the-movie-laura\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you identify this radio from the movie \u201cLaura\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Perry Lusk, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s my contribution to radios found in movies:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the 1944 movie “Laura” what appears to be a Zenith pops up while Waldo Lydecker, a narcissistic newspaper editor, enjoys his bath while working the typewriter. What model are we seeing?<\/p>\n

Readers: if you can positively identify this antique radio, please comment!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Perry Lusk, who writes: Here’s my contribution to radios found in movies: In the 1944 movie “Laura” what appears to be a Zenith pops up while Waldo Lydecker, a narcissistic newspaper editor, enjoys his bath while working the typewriter. What model are we seeing? Readers: if you can positively […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,4796],"tags":[10803,10804,5506],"class_list":["post-62809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-vintage-radio","tag-laura","tag-peter-lusk","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gl3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58360,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/perry-spots-a-zenith-transoceanic-in-the-alligator-people\/","url_meta":{"origin":62809,"position":0},"title":"Perry spots a Zenith Transoceanic in “The Alligator People”","author":"Thomas","date":"December 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Perry Lusk (KG7YC), who writes: I spotted this on an old \"B\" rated film: Might be more fun to identify the movie than the Zenith Transoceanic we all know. 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Another radio sighting from the 1986 film Let's Get Harry! Lots of big names in this one including Mark Harmon, Robert Duvall, Gary Busey, and former founding member of the Eagles Glenn Frey. 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