Lynn Bari makes her only Suspense appearance as a dancer who tries to frame her brother-in-law for the murder of her husband, and then wants to run away with her agent and get married. Someone forgot to tell the agent the full extent of what she had in mind. Whoops! Suddenly, she has a desire to confess and drag the agent with her. Bari is good in the role, and Hans Conried plays the soon-to-be-deceased husband.
Jack Webb plays a detective. It was very confusing to hear him as a suspect in You Take Ballistics, so this is less distracting when listening. Bill Johnstone replaced Joe Kearns as the voice of Suspense while he is on vacation in New York.
The author of the script is John Shaw. It is his second script and third broadcast. His Statement of Employee Henry Wilson was performed twice before this new script. Shaw was a freelancer who had success working with William Spier on Suspense and also the year that Spier produced Philip Morris Playhouse. Shaw gave up scriptwriting around 1950 when he was newly married as he felt it was a job more appropriate for a single man. He took a job in Rhode Island government for its steady paycheck and never wrote for radio again.
Only the east broadcast has survived. It includes the tease reminder for The FBI in Peace and War. There is also a public service announcement regarding safe driving, read by Truman Bradley. There is no mention of not drinking and driving. Those kinds of notices were not common in the 1940s.
The broadcast of the prior week, Beyond Good and Evil with Vincent Price, has never been found.
This was Lynn Bari’s only Suspense appearance. She was 34 at the time of the broadcast as she was born in 1913. Many resources have her date of birth as 1919, some as 1917, but those do not make sense in terms of some of the film roles she had in the early 1930s. Her very active movie career slowed at the end of the 1940s and she transitioned to a successful television career. She was usually on radio programs related to movies. Despite the birth date issue, the Wikipedia page is still suggested as an overview of her career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Bari
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THE CAST
LYNN BARI (Edith Reid), Hans Conried (Bob Reid), Jerry Hausner (Joseph), Wally Maher (George Lee), Sidney Miller (Lieutenant Meldrum), Jack Webb (Detective), Dick Ryan (Jimmy Reid), Bill Johnstone (Signature Voice / Waiter)
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