Michele Morgan portrays a French refugee, asked to use an old love relationship with an artist to advance resistance against the Nazis. The painting Portrait Without a Face by her ex-lover is shocking when she sees it. It shows Morgan’s character with the dead body of a French traitor general at her feet, implicating her in his murder. Now what happens? Will she kill the artist? Or is her husband setting her up for her own murder? Or is her husband a traitor to the cause?
The broadcast includes two stars who appeared on Suspense before, Philip Dorn and George Coulouris. The script is by Corporal Louis Pelletier, who would become more associated with FBI in Peace and War later in his career.
The two network broadcasts have survived, with the east recording with slightly better sound. The west broadcast has the date of 1944-03-06.
The story also appeared in Suspense Magazine #1, which can be downloaded as a PDF from the same page that has the recordings.
Michele Morgan played leading movie roles from the 1930s to 1950s in France and Hollywood. Her French career was interrupted by leaving France for Hollywood after the 1940 German invasion. Her US career was good but not consistent, with her biggest role with Humphrey Bogart in the 1944 Passage to Marseille. She returned to France after the war where her film career was quite successful. This role in Suspense, her only appearance, has one of those quirky aspects decades later. The story involves an artist, and she took up painting in the 1960s. She an exhibition of her work in 2009 in France.
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https://archive.org/details/TSP44032
THE CAST
PHILIP DORN (Paul Degel), MICHELE MORGAN (Collette), GEORGE COULOURIS (Charles Gavenaud), Hans Conried (Doorman / Committee member), Joe Kearns (Man in Black / Waiter), Will Wright (voice in end commercial)
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