A spurned woman believes she can “will” a relationship with her boyfriend to begin again. The plotline is along the lines of “be careful what you wish for because you just might get it.” She is obsessed with him and is in denial for whatever bad act he might be responsible for, such as killing his mother. They do end up together, which makes it all seem so very fine. Fifteen years after they were re-joined, however, is not so pretty.
This is a Lucille Fletcher script, and it’s often a forgotten one. Part of that may have been that most recordings circulated in sub-par sound for many years. It is a good story and well done though it may seem a bit soap-opera-ish at the beginning.
Nancy Kelly stars with Cathy Lewis. Rita Johnson was the originally announced co-star and her name was in most newspaper listings for the episode. The cast change was made before the prior week’s performance of The Night Reveals when only Kelly is teased as the upcoming guest and Johnson is not mentioned. Johnson was at a high point in her career at this time. When her film career started in the late 1930s, she was considered “the next Jean Harlow.” No reason is given for her absence. Just two years later, her life took a terrible turn and left her career in shambles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Johnson She did not do much radio, appearing mainly in movie-based programs like Lux. In her comeback years, she is listed in some casts of Broadway Is My Beat and some other early 1950s programs. She never appeared on Suspense.
The best recording is the surviving network broadcast. It is not known which coast it was for. There is an Armed Forces Radio Service recording (#152) which is drawn from the missing network broadcast. The network recording goes directly to the network ID and is identified as “dirID.” Times are approximate.
dirID 3:35 “...yet you really...”
AFRS 2:35 “... yet you you really...”
At the middle commercial Truman Bradley says “...between the acts...” and not the usual “between the acts of Suspense…” as there still seems to be some experimentation in the mid-show messaging.
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https://archive.org/details/TSP460425
THE CAST
NANCY KELLY (Ann Brodie), Cathy Lewis (Alice), Joe Kearns (Signature Voice / Hodges, the station master)
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