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Sorry, Wrong Number. By Lucille Fletcher. As Lucille once explained in an interview, Sorry, Wrong Number was partially inspired by an incident from someone else's life. While Herrmann was sick at home, Lucille went down to the corner drug store for medicine.
In a number dialed wrong, an invalid woman overhears two men plotting a murder and her mind goes in a complete downward spiral. Without her husband, unable to get out of bed and having the telephone as her only way to communicate with the outside world, she convinces herself that the man were planning on murdering her.
Lucille Fletcher’s Sorry, Wrong Number is a one-act play and radio drama concerning Mrs. Stevenson, a housewife who experiences extreme anxiety and must remain in bed. Mrs. Stevenson never leaves the house, and the only people she sees are her husband, Elbert, and her maid, Eloise.
Aug 29, 2021 · Drama on One: Sorry, Wrong Number. RTÉ Radio 1 Sunday 29 August, 2021 8pm. By Lucille Fletcher. ‘I’m calling to report a murder.’. Mrs. Elbert Stevenson, an imperious invalid accidentally intercepts a phone call between two men plotting a murder for that evening.
Sorry, Wrong Number is a 1948 American thriller and film noir directed by Anatole Litvak, from a screenplay by Lucille Fletcher, based on her 1943 radio play of the same name. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster .
Sep 5, 2023 · Complete summary of Lucille Fletcher's Sorry, Wrong Number. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Sorry, Wrong Number.
Aug 30, 2021 · Sorry, Wrong Number, Lucille Fletcher, CBS Radio Network, 1943, script, pdf. Collection. oldtimeradio; radioprograms. Suspense: Sorry, Wrong Number Script pdf. The CBS Radio Network 25 May 1943. This radio drama became one of the most legendary radio plays of all time. Agnes Moorehead created the role in the first performance and ...
Lucille Fletcher's drama Sorry, Wrong Number was first performed as a radio play in 1943. In the preface to the published version, Fletcher writes, "This play was originally designed as an experiment in sound and not just as a murder story."
Aug 31, 2021 · A Druid and RTÉ Radio Drama On One co-production. Written by Lucille Fletcher. ‘I’m calling to report a murder.’. Described by Orson Welles as ‘the greatest single radio script ever written’, Sorry, Wrong Number is a whip-smart radio thriller set in 1940s New York.
Apr 9, 2012 · the stories: sorry, wrong number. A mystery thriller, the tale of a neurotic invalid, whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. Over this, one...
