Sunday, January 29, 2023

1942-12-01 The Bride Vanishes

A newly married couple is on their honeymoon, and the locals think they recognize her as a bride who went missing on her wedding day in the town. The locals are wary of them… and they get a warning from a boatman who takes them to “the Blue Grotto” that may have something to do with the disappearance.

The John Dickson Carr script was adapted for the first issue of the Suspense comic book.

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https://archive.org/details/TSP421201

THE CAST

Hanley Stafford? (Tom Courtney), Lesley Woods (Lucy Courtney), Jack McBryde, Ted Osborne (Signature Voice), others

Keith Scott has some well-founded suspicions about the cast listing:

Hanley Stafford has been credited as playing the husband in this program in various sources over many years, but I just don’t hear it. Besides which, this New York production would have clashed with Stafford’s regular role of J. C. Dithers on Blondie, produced weekly in Hollywood. (I suspect a collector mistook Ted Osborne’s signature narration voice for Stafford’s, then further errors of attribution followed.)

The comic book story can be downloaded from the Internet Archive link above.

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