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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.
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.”
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.
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
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Styrous® ~ Sunday, July 19, 2020
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