I present for your listening pleasure, the West Coast broadcast of "Sorry, Wrong Number," written by Lucille Fletcher and first broadcast on Suspense, May 25, 1943. There was a dramatic flub at the end of the East Coast (first) version, so I am posting the second airing for those of you who have never heard it.

All eight recordings of the radio play are available for download. By 1944, the phone number the desperate woman was trying to reach was changed from MurrayHill 7-0093 to MurrayHill 4-0098. Why? I have not idea, but I find it interesting.

Just want to point out that it's very different from the film. You really want to kill Mrs. Stevenson in the radio version.

Let me count the ways. 

But I gotta make it quick today, so I'll just list some good lines from the  Stanwyck Two-fer from last night at Noir City 9.

In case you can't read them, here are the quotes highlighted on the movie poster:
     ** "Where have I failed you as a husband?"
     ** "You're not even a woman anymore...just another dame with the 'fever'!"
     ** "I picked her up in an alley...with a pair of loaded dice in her hand!"

Some pretty dire pronouncements, don't you think? And poor Robert Preston — so strapping a guy for such a tiny mustache.

And a couple choice bits tweeted by anniebacon (a person I've never met, but who, noir-like, I now follow):
     **  Better than gambling:  "Spitting half a mile...and a two-inch steak."
     ** "I'll take a lush any day. At least a lush passes out sometimes."

Listen, I'm still on the fence about this movie on account of Agnes Moorehead scaring the pants off me when I first heard the broadcast in my Middle School AV Room. The woman who wrote the original "Suspense" play, Lucille Fletcher, also wrote the screenplay, which you think would help, but I'm just too in love with the original.

Still, Barbara's hair is much better in this picture than in The Lady Gambles. That Jane Wyman cut is  the least flattering hairdo ever; it works on no one.