House Jameson stars in the second production Richard Wiel story about “old” Hollywood. An early 1930s Hollywood murder and its investigation threatens the career of an actress and her fiancé. An actor decides to get some revenge for the threat of being fired from picture. The director is murdered and he frames an actress for it by arranging her to find the body. Police wrongly accused her of the murder because she was at the scene; she arrived after the shooting. Remember what might be called the “clue of the cloves” early in the production. They play a key part in the story.
The original production of 1957-11-17 starred Francis X. Bushman, whose movie career started in the silent era. Details are at
https://suspenseproject.blogspot.com/2025/05/1957-11-17-city-that-was.html
https://archive.org/details/TSP571117 is where recordings can be downloaded and streamed
No script cover is available at this time to provide production date and time.
The surviving recording is a fine sounding WROW aircheck. The “And now” opening of the show is missing because of a station commercial that finished a few seconds later than it should have.
House Jameson was one of radio’s most successful actors. Though he appeared on Broadway and some Hollywood productions, his radio career was almost legendary. He started in the 1930s and his career extended into the 1950s, appearing in thousands of programs. He was known for Crime Doctor, one of radio’s earliest and biggest mystery program successes, and appeared in many Norman Corwin productions. His biggest and longest success was as the father of Henry Aldrich in The Aldrich Family series. He played that role from 1939 to 1953. This episode was his only Suspense appearance.
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https://archive.org/details/TSP601030
THE CAST
House Jameson (The Narrator), Michael Kane (Bart Malloy), Martha Greenhouse (Rina), Bernard Grant (Kendall), Samuel Raskyn (Fritz / Sam), George Petrie (Sgt. Kaye), Danny Ocko (Sergei / Alec)
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