Editing The Lost Weekend (section)

==Adaptations==
''The Lost Weekend'' was adapted as a radio play on the January 7, 1946, broadcast of [[The Screen Guild Theater]], starring Milland, Wyman, and Faylen in their original film roles.

On March 10, 1946, three days after winning the Academy Award, Milland appeared as a guest on a radio broadcast of ''[[Jack Benny|The Jack Benny Show]]''. In a spoof of ''The Lost Weekend'', Milland and Jack Benny played alcoholic twin brothers. [[Phil Harris]], who normally played Jack Benny's hard-drinking bandleader on the show, played the brother who tried to convince Ray and Jack to give up liquor. ("Ladies and gentlemen," said an announcer, "the opinions expressed by Mr. Harris are written in the script and are not necessarily his own.") In the alcoholic ward scene, smart-aleck [[Frank Nelson (actor)|Frank Nelson]] played the ward attendant who promised Ray and Jack that they would soon start seeing [[Delirium tremens|DT]] visions of strange animals. When the DT visions appeared (with [[Mel Blanc]] providing pig squeals, monkey chatters, and other animal sound effects), Ray chased them off. "Ray, they're gone!", Benny shouted. "What did you do?" Milland replied, "I threw my Oscar at them!"

On April 21, 1949, [[Jackie Gleason]], making his debut as a regular on [[NBC]]'s ''The Hank Ladd Show'' (known prior to that date as ''[[The Arrow Show]]'', newly recast and retitled accordingly), delivered what ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' dubbed the episode's "standout segment" with his ''Lost Weekend'' spoof. Portraying the protagonist as a "five-year-old moppet who gets plastered on soft drinks," he is seen "guzzling milk shakes and cokes, weaving down Third Avenue and finally, hit by the DT's, scared witless by a Mickey Mouse."<ref>{{Cite news|title=Television Reviews: HANK LADD SHOW|author=Bril.|date=April 27, 1994|work=Variety|page=30|quote=With Ladd, Jackie Gleason, Carol Bruce (4), The Tattler, Anoinette Gilkey, Bob Dickson; Producer: Rod Erickson; Director: William H. Brown Jr.; Writers: Al Singer, Tom Adair, Ernie Glucksman [...] The Arrow Show, which headlined Phil Silvers, abetted by Jack Gilford, has been completely reformatted and fitted out with a new star, Hank Ladd.|id={{ProQuest|1286077445}}}}</ref>