December 6, 2023

20,000 vinyl LPs 342: Agnes Moorehead ~ Sorry, Wrong Number 10" vinyl LP

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10" vinyl LP front cover detail 
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Today is the birthday of American actress, Agnes Moorehead who was born on the 6th of December in 1900, in Clinton, Massachusetts,        


10" vinyl LP front cover detail 
detail photo of front cover by Styrous®
 
 
Sorry, Wrong Number was written by Lucille Fletcher. She once explained in an interview, Sorry, Wrong Number was partially inspired by an incident from someone else's life. When she went down to the corner drug store for medicine, she struck up a conversation with her pharmacist, a longtime friend. She raised the ire of an elderly woman who had apparently been waiting first. The woman interrupted and approached the druggist, complaining about poor service and demanding to "know who this interloper is!", referring to Fletcher. Fletcher, finding the woman's shrill voice and demeanor particularly irritating, went home with the intention of writing a script based around a character with those traits who becomes embroiled in a precarious situation.     


10" vinyl LP front cover
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The plot is as follows: On an average evening in the apartment where she lives alone, the bedridden Leona Stevenson picks up the phone to make a call. But the telephone operator connects her call incorrectly. It’s not a friend on the other end of the line — it’s two men plotting a murder. The intended victim? Stevenson herself.

“The entire show is based around the hysteria of the main character,” says Steve Darnall, editor of Nostalgia Digest. We’re stuck with the increasingly frantic Stevenson as she tries to stay alive. But, ultimately, she fails. That’s what makes Sorry, Wrong Number so unusual, Darnall says. “It was one of the first times that someone had had the audacity to go on this national network and present a story in which the killers get away.”       
 
 
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The radio drama premiered in 1943 and became one of the most legendary radio plays of all time. Agnes Moorehead created the role in the first performance and again in several later radio productions. Barbara Stanwyck starred in the 1948 film version and, in 1952, performed the original radio play over the airwaves. A 1959 version produced for the CBS radio series Suspense received a 1960 Edgar Award for Best Radio Drama.
 
 

 
10" vinyl LP back cover details
detail photos by Styrous®



 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

 
 

   
Tracklist:
       
Side 1:
        
Sorry, Wrong Number - 8:05
       
Side 2:
       
Sorry, Wrong Number - 8:07
       
Companies, etc.
       
    Copyright © – Decca Records, Inc.
       
Credits:
       
    Edited By, Producer, Directed By William Spier
    Written By Lucille Fletcher
       
Notes:
       
Copyright 1952, DECCA RECORDS, INC.

Printed in U.S.A.

With supporting cast and sound effects.

Track durations are not listed.

Originally released as two disc "78rpm Album" in 1947
Sorry, Wrong Number (Lucille Fletcher's Celebrated Radio Thriller)
       
Barcode and Other Identifiers
       
    Matrix / Runout (A side label): MG 2669
    Matrix / Runout (B side label): MG 2670 ★
    Matrix / Runout (A side runout machine stamped): MG2669T1
    Matrix / Runout (B side runout machine stamped): MG2670T1
         
Viewfinder links:        
         
Lucille Fletcher            
Agnes Moorehead        
        
Net links:        
    
btboces ~ Sorry, Wrong Number By Lucille Fletcher        
DPS ~ Sorry, Wrong Number                 
Studio 360 ~ Sorry, Wrong Number        
Why the Book Wins ~ Sorry Wrong Number Agnes Moorehead              
        
YouTube links:        
        
Agnes Moorehead ~ Sorry, Wrong Number        
        
        
         
        
        
        
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