Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radio)

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Episode 122 - 60s TV Stars Mar 21, 2019

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Sometimes the stars who appeared on Suspense were up and comers in Hollywood, and they made their visits to "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" before their big breaks or signature roles. Our leading men this week would go on to find big fame on the small screen in the 1960s. We'll hear Robert Wagner –before It Takes a Thief and long before Hart to Hart – in "Listen, Young Lovers" (originally aired on CBS on May 31, 1954). Then, DeForest Kelley – several years before he boarded the USS Enterprise – in "Flesh Peddler" (an AFRS rebroadcast of an episode from August 4, 1957).

Episode 121 - Ray Milland (Part 2) Mar 14, 2019

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Oscar-winner Ray Milland makes two more visits to "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" as two men in two very different but equally desperate situations. First, the star of The Lost Weekend is a man whose wife has been kidnapped in "After the Movies" (originally aired on CBS on December 7, 1950). Then, he stars in a story pulled from the history books - a tense confrontation between the British and Chinese - in "The Log of the Marne" (originally aired on CBS on October 22, 1951).

Episode 120 - Vincent Price (Part 4) Mar 07, 2019

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Vincent Price delivers a pair of terrifically unhinged performances in two more tales well calculated to keep you in Suspense. The star of House on Haunted Hill and The Tingler plays an axe murderer reliving his crime in "Present Tense" (originally aired on CBS on March 3, 1957). Then, Price stars as an actor who hopes to give his best performance - and get away with murder - in "Rave Notice" (originally aired on CBS on June 1, 1958).

Episode 119 - Barbara Stanwyck Feb 28, 2019

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Four-time Oscar nominee Barbara Stanwyck was one of the biggest stars of Hollywood, dazzling audiences with her dynamic turns in Double Indemnity, Stella Dallas, and more. We'll hear Stanwyck in her one and only Suspense appearance - "The Wages of Sin" (originally aired on CBS on October 19, 1950). Then, she stars in a radio recreation of a big screen adaptation of one of the most famous Suspense shows of all time - "Sorry, Wrong Number" (originally aired on The Lux Radio Theatre on January 9, 1950).

Episode 118 - Ronald Colman (Part 2) Feb 21, 2019

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Oscar-winner Ronald Colman was a radio fixture as Jack Benny's long-suffering neighbor and a college president in The Halls of Ivy, but he could also be heard in tales of terror on Suspense. We'll hear Colman in an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" (an Armed Forces Radio rebroadcast of an episode from November 1, 1945) and in "The Noose of Coincidence" (originally aired on CBS on April 7, 1949).

Episode 117 - Keenan Wynn Feb 17, 2019

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Whether he was a thorn in the side of The Absent Minded Professor or reluctantly destroying Coke machines in Dr. Strangelove, Keenan Wynn was always a welcome presence on screen. We'll hear the character actor in two of his visits to "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" - "The Walls Came Tumbling Down" (originally aired on CBS on June 29, 1944) and "I Had an Alibi" (originally aired on CBS on January 4, 1945).

Episode 116 - Charles Laughton (Part 3) Feb 07, 2019

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Charles Laughton plays two very different - but equally disturbed - men in these installments of "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." The star of Witness for the Prosecution and Mutiny on the Bounty is "An Honest Man" (originally aired on CBS on August 5, 1948) and the infamous English executioner "Jack Ketch" (originally aired on CBS on September 22, 1952).

Episode 115 - Joan Lorring Jan 31, 2019

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After she worked on radio as a child actor, Joan Lorring broke out in movies at age 19 with an Oscar-nominated turn in The Corn is Green. It was one of many successes she'd have in a career that took her to the big and small screens as well as the Broadway stage. We'll hear her in two old time radio tales of Suspense: "A Man in the House" (originally aired on CBS on August 2, 1945) and "The Great Horrell" (originally aired on CBS on August 22, 1946).

Episode 114 - Richard Widmark (Part 3) Jan 24, 2019

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Oscar-nominated actor Richard Widmark brings more of his unique intensity to Suspense as he stars in a pair of dramas pitting man against nature. We'll hear him in "The Track of the Cat" (originally aired on CBS on February 18, 1952) and "How Long is the Night?" (originally aired on CBS on October 13, 1952).

Episode 113 - Jose Ferrer Jan 17, 2019

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Oscar and Tony-winning actor Jose Ferrer came to Suspense before he made his Hollywood debut when he was the toast of the Great White Way for his performance as Cyrano. He brought his stage actor's intensity to his only performance on radio's outstanding theater of thrills - an adaptation of Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" (originally aired on CBS on November 28, 1947). We'll also hear the star as detective Philo Vance in "The Case of the Strange Music" (originally aired on NBC on August 9, 1945).

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