Vanessa Brown stars in the second broadcast of a script by E. Jack Neuman and John Michael Hayes from an original story by “Catherine Lee,” a/k/a Cathy Lewis. Brown stars as a woman out to solve her sister's murder. She imitates her in a psychological ploy to trap her murderer. As listeners, we don’t really understand what she’s doing until we’re well into the story, which means that we get trapped by the events, too!
The original broadcast was with Ginger Rogers. Details about that 1951 production are at these resources:
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2024/05/1951-01-11-vamp-til-dead.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP510111 and is where the recordings can be downloaded and streamed.
This 1957 production was recorded on Tuesday, September 24, 1957. Rehearsal began at 2:00pm and concluded at 5:00pm. Recording began at that time, and editing was completed by 7:00pm.
There are two surviving recordings of this episode, and both are from the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS#650 and AFRS#952). AFRS#650 is the better sounding recording. There is no surviving network recording. The AFRS recordings can be differentiated by the announcement after the Robson monologue at the beginning of the program:
AFRS#650: The US Constitution;
AFRS#952: Social Security benefits after military service.
For decades, the only circulating recordings of this program were heavily edited AFRS airchecks in very bad sound. It could not be determined which of the two AFRS versions was the basis of those airchecks. Because they were recorded in the 1960s, it is likely that the aircheck was AFRS#952, but that cannot be determined for certain.
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https://archive.org/details/TSP570929
THE CAST
Vanessa Brown (Amy), Jeanette Nolan (Jenny), Ben Wright (Gentry), Norm Alden (Al), George Walsh (Narrator)
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