Cornell Woolrich

It was based on a short story

written by Cornell Woolrich.

Huh.

A short story.

This is Geoffrey Barnes welcoming you to the Molle Mystery Theatre, the program that presents the best in mystery and detective fiction.

You have just heard the opening scene of tonight's story by Cornell Woolrich, starring Miss June Havoc, and bearing the rather unusual and bizarre title, The Bride Wore Black.

After all, black is the color we associate with death and funerals, not with weddings and romance.

But tonight, black is the color of a woman's revenge.

This episode, called Three O'Clock – ominous title, huh? – was considered a masterpiece of Golden Age radio, a masterclass in acting and suspense, and probably one of the best adaptations ever performed on radio, and I don't say that lightly.

Pulp writer Cornell Woolrich, known for his grim tales, wrote this short story.

And Suspense uses Cornell Woolrich's stories quite often to tell rather grim tales.

But Woolrich wrote this in 1938 and Suspense adapted it.

Walter Brown Newman actually did that.

My congratulations to Tony, and I'll be tuned in next week to hear Gregory Peck in Murder Through the Looking Glass, another gripping study in...

Suspense! Van Heflin appeared by arrangement with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producers of the Technicolor picture Little Women, starring June Allison, Peter Lawford, Margaret O'Brien, and Elizabeth Taylor.

Tonight's suspense play was written by Cornell Woolrich and adapted by Walter Newman.

That's the science fiction.

And the short story writer is Cornell Woolrich.

Cornell Woolrich was one of his most famous stories is Rear Window, or it had to be Murder, actually, it was called, but wrote many, many, many stories that were turned into films.

and a lot of them are just great.

Anyway, if we didn't get to your call, I do apologize for you, but please remember that Minds Over Matter is here every Saturday morning at 10 a.m., except next week we will have an old show on because the station is moving.

This is Suspense, The White Rose Murders, Episode 6, first broadcast by CBS on July 6, 1943, with Maureen O'Hara as Ginny.

The script is Robert Tallman's radio adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's story, The Death Rose, directed by Ted Bliss and produced by William Spear.

And now, we return to the original broadcast.

Suspense.

Our star this evening is Miss Maureen O'Hara, whom you've seen rise to stardom in Hollywood within the short space of a year.

Her performances in the 20th Century Fox production, How Green Was My Ballet, then more recently in The Immortal Sergeant, and now currently in the RKO production, This Land Is Mine, have given her an enviable place in the ranks of America's new film favorites.

Miss O'Hara makes her first appearance on our suspense stage tonight as the heroine of A Study in Homicidal Mania, The White Rose Murders by Cornell Woolrich.

which is tonight's tale of suspense.

Suspense brings us If the Dead Could Talk, Episode Zero, originally broadcast January 2, 1949.

Dana Andrews plays Joe, with Peggy Weber as Fran and Tony Barrett as Tommy, in Larry Marcus's adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich story, first published under Woolrich's pseudonym, William Irish.

Fran's engagement to Tommy changes the balance within the three-person act, and the cramped routine of circus travel leads toward the precision and danger of the flying trapeze.

Produced by Anton M. Leder for CBS and sponsored by Autolite, the program runs 30 minutes.

Peter Lohr introduces this Armed Forces Radio Service presentation of Mystery Playhouse, drawn from the November 28, 1944 broadcast of Mole Mystery Theater.

Known on the original NBC series as Episode 61, Nightmare is adapted from Cornell Woolrich's story, And So to Death, published under his William Irish name.

Vince brings his brother-in-law, Homicide Division Detective Cliff Dodge, a nightmare of murder that appears to have left physical evidence and a police report from Clarksburg in its wake.

Though Vince says he has never been there, he leads Cliff through a storm toward a house outside town.

This gentleman had a particularly realistic one.

In fact, he didn't know for the life of him.

You listen for yourself to the unfolding of William Irish's strange and intriguing story of a man who dreamed he committed murder and woke up to the fact that maybe he actually had.

Listen to Nightmare.

Helen Walker stars as Bricky Coleman, with John Beale as Quinn Williams.

On May 15, 1948, CBS presented Suspense, episode 296, Deadline at Dawn, adapted for radio by Irving Ravitch from Cornell Woolrich's 1944 novel, written under the name William Irish.

In New York City, Bricky, a taxi dancer, gives shelter to Quinn after meeting him at a dance hall.

The two discover a shared small town past and plan to catch a six o'clock bus out of town.