WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.000 Roma wines, R-O-M-A, Roma wine company of Fresno, California bring you Suspense. 00:10.000 --> 00:18.340 Tonight, Roma wines bring you Miss June Havoc in Stand In, a suspense play produced, edited, 00:18.340 --> 00:22.740 and directed for Schenley by William Spear. 00:22.740 --> 00:27.860 Suspense, radio's outstanding theater of thrills. 00:27.860 --> 00:30.800 This is presented for your enjoyment by Roma wines. 00:30.800 --> 00:32.600 That's R-O-M-A. 00:32.600 --> 00:38.400 Roma wines, those better tasting California wines enjoyed by more Americans than any other 00:38.400 --> 00:40.020 wine in the world. 00:40.020 --> 00:44.920 And thanks to this tremendous popularity, you can now serve Roma wine more often. 00:44.920 --> 00:49.800 Roma prices have been reduced to save you money on every bottle you and your friends 00:49.800 --> 00:50.800 enjoy. 00:50.800 --> 00:54.160 We'll tell you more about this money saving opportunity later on. 00:54.160 --> 01:03.080 And now, Roma wines bring you Miss June Havoc in a remarkable tale of Suspense. 01:03.080 --> 01:04.080 She's here. 01:04.080 --> 01:05.080 Diana, get W.S.C. 01:05.080 --> 01:06.080 Tell him, will you? 01:06.080 --> 01:07.080 Okay. 01:07.080 --> 01:10.280 Jensen, take on those 40 Western Union boys that were supposed to come out and sing, Here 01:10.280 --> 01:11.280 Comes the Bride. 01:11.280 --> 01:12.280 Very good, sir. 01:12.280 --> 01:13.280 And everybody take it easy now. 01:13.280 --> 01:14.280 Keep calm. 01:14.280 --> 01:15.280 What do you want to do? 01:15.280 --> 01:16.280 Give her a nervous breakdown? 01:16.280 --> 01:17.280 Right this way, boys. 01:17.280 --> 01:18.280 Hello, darling. 01:18.280 --> 01:19.280 Hello, everybody. 01:19.280 --> 01:20.280 Madame is home again. 01:20.280 --> 01:33.160 I was always the way with Madame, a grand entrance for her and utter confusion for everybody 01:33.160 --> 01:34.160 else. 01:34.160 --> 01:35.160 She was rotten and spoiled. 01:35.160 --> 01:36.160 But what could you do? 01:36.160 --> 01:37.160 On the screen, she looked like an angel. 01:37.160 --> 01:42.920 And she was the top box office door of the biggest studio in Hollywood. 01:42.920 --> 01:43.920 Everybody heard the story by now. 01:43.920 --> 01:48.040 Of course, that is the nine day wonders version that the newspapers carried. 01:48.040 --> 01:52.160 But there are only two people in the world who know the real story. 01:52.160 --> 01:53.760 And I'm one of them. 01:53.760 --> 01:56.400 You see, I was her stand in. 01:56.400 --> 01:59.920 This particular little caper all began just before her latest picture was supposed to 01:59.920 --> 02:01.480 go in front of the cameras. 02:01.480 --> 02:05.960 And she suddenly decided she simply couldn't bear to be making only $10,000 for a whole 02:05.960 --> 02:09.000 week's work and took off to Florida. 02:09.000 --> 02:12.000 Nobody heard a word of her for two months except in the newspapers. 02:12.000 --> 02:16.400 Little things like she'd married her fifth husband and lost $40,000 in one night at Roulette 02:16.400 --> 02:20.440 and bought an old Spanish monastery and was going to bring it back to Hollywood stone 02:20.440 --> 02:21.440 by stone. 02:21.440 --> 02:27.320 And then all of a sudden she was coming back that very day with husband and monastery and 02:27.320 --> 02:29.120 everything and everybody had to jump. 02:29.120 --> 02:33.320 Loretta knew had been waiting all afternoon and going not so quietly crazy, particularly 02:33.320 --> 02:36.200 Mike Fawkes, her publicity agent, and me. 02:36.200 --> 02:39.880 I was having a whole duplicate set of dresses fitted so we could start the picture the minute 02:39.880 --> 02:41.160 she got back. 02:41.160 --> 02:44.480 She swept in and I took a look at the new husband. 02:44.480 --> 02:49.160 And the minute I saw him I knew there was going to be trouble because he wasn't taking 02:49.160 --> 02:50.160 it well. 02:50.160 --> 02:52.160 He wasn't taking it at all well. 02:52.160 --> 02:55.240 Madame, for the love of Pete, where have you been? 02:55.240 --> 02:58.360 WC's been blowing his top all day in the newspapers blowing... 02:58.360 --> 03:00.880 Oh now Michael, darling, everything's been taken care of. 03:00.880 --> 03:04.880 I sent WC a big box of orchids from the airport and I brought a few of the newspaper boys 03:04.880 --> 03:05.880 along with me. 03:05.880 --> 03:06.880 You did? 03:06.880 --> 03:07.880 Hello, Pocodile. 03:07.880 --> 03:09.240 Listen, I want to talk to you first. 03:09.240 --> 03:10.240 I wanted to give you a... 03:10.240 --> 03:13.240 Oh by the way, everybody, this is my new husband, Dennis O'Brien. 03:13.240 --> 03:14.560 He blew me out. 03:14.560 --> 03:15.560 We've all been four seaters. 03:15.560 --> 03:16.560 He's gorgeous. 03:16.560 --> 03:17.560 Gorgeous. 03:17.560 --> 03:18.560 Such an improvement on Roman at us. 03:18.560 --> 03:20.560 Say hello to the folks, Danny, huh? 03:20.560 --> 03:21.560 Hello. 03:21.560 --> 03:23.560 Say, how about a couple of nice pictures of the bride and groom, huh? 03:23.560 --> 03:24.560 Oh, well darling, I think that's a splendid idea. 03:24.560 --> 03:25.560 Come on, Dennis, come on. 03:25.560 --> 03:26.560 A little to one side, I think, darling. 03:26.560 --> 03:27.560 Leading over perhaps. 03:27.560 --> 03:28.560 That's right. 03:28.560 --> 03:29.560 Not too far into the picture. 03:29.560 --> 03:30.560 Where you say? 03:30.560 --> 03:31.560 There. 03:31.560 --> 03:32.560 Isn't that about right, boys? 03:32.560 --> 03:33.560 Oh, that's fine. 03:33.560 --> 03:34.560 Now, one of you alone, Madame. 03:34.560 --> 03:35.560 Oh, certainly. 03:35.560 --> 03:36.560 You can go now, Dennis. 03:36.560 --> 03:37.560 I'll join you a little later, darling. 03:37.560 --> 03:38.560 Just look around the house. 03:38.560 --> 03:39.560 Make yourself at home. 03:39.560 --> 03:44.560 Thanks. 03:44.560 --> 03:45.560 Hold it, Madame. 03:45.560 --> 03:46.560 Thank you. 03:46.560 --> 03:47.560 Goodbye. 03:47.560 --> 03:50.560 Madame, I was wondering about your hair. 03:50.560 --> 03:53.560 Are you going to wear it up in the computer? 03:53.560 --> 03:54.560 Oh, I am tray-beat. 03:54.560 --> 03:56.560 Lawrence and I, mine is party was beaucoup. 03:56.560 --> 03:57.560 Madame, I wonder... 03:57.560 --> 03:58.560 Oh, Diana, darling, I hardly noticed you. 03:58.560 --> 03:59.560 The new dress is coming. 03:59.560 --> 04:00.560 That one you have on looks lovely, dear. 04:00.560 --> 04:01.560 You look lovely, too. 04:01.560 --> 04:02.560 Well, thanks, Madame. 04:02.560 --> 04:03.560 I was wondering... 04:03.560 --> 04:04.560 Please, will you go? 04:04.560 --> 04:05.560 Diana, dear, I shall have to go. 04:05.560 --> 04:06.560 I'll see you later. 04:06.560 --> 04:07.560 I'll see you later. 04:07.560 --> 04:09.560 Please, will you go? 04:09.560 --> 04:12.560 Diana, dear, I shall have to go and have that awful ordeal with WC and the Schwartzes will 04:12.560 --> 04:13.560 be here... 04:13.560 --> 04:14.560 Oh, certainly. 04:14.560 --> 04:15.560 Good night, Madame. 04:15.560 --> 04:18.560 You see what I mean? 04:18.560 --> 04:23.560 I won't say I didn't hate her, because I did. 04:23.560 --> 04:25.560 But I was used to it by now. 04:25.560 --> 04:30.560 With a living and better than pounding a typewriter or getting mauled in a modeling agency. 04:30.560 --> 04:34.560 And I made my way back to the big gloomy house to the study where I left my things. 04:34.560 --> 04:37.560 As I opened the door, I saw her husband, Dennis. 04:37.560 --> 04:42.560 He was standing with his back to me in the semi-darkness, looking out the big French 04:42.560 --> 04:44.560 windows that lead to the formal garden. 04:44.560 --> 04:49.560 He turned his head a little when I came in and then back again, staring out the window. 04:49.560 --> 04:53.560 But even from where I stood, I could see that his big shoulders were bunched into knots. 04:53.560 --> 04:55.560 I could kill you when you're like that, Maggie. 04:55.560 --> 04:58.560 What do you think I am, one of your great dames that you can haul around on a leash and 04:58.560 --> 04:59.560 put through polytrich? 04:59.560 --> 05:00.560 But I... 05:00.560 --> 05:01.560 I'm not listening now, Maggie. 05:01.560 --> 05:02.560 I'm telling you. 05:02.560 --> 05:04.560 Cut it out, cut it out or I'll sew help me some night. 05:04.560 --> 05:05.560 I'll murder you. 05:05.560 --> 05:07.560 Well, I'm sorry, Mr. O'Brien. 05:07.560 --> 05:08.560 I didn't mean it. 05:08.560 --> 05:09.560 Huh? 05:09.560 --> 05:12.560 Oh, I thought it was Maggie. 05:12.560 --> 05:13.560 So I gather. 05:13.560 --> 05:14.560 Excuse me. 05:14.560 --> 05:15.560 Oh, that's all right. 05:15.560 --> 05:16.560 Forget it. 05:16.560 --> 05:18.560 I know you didn't mean it. 05:18.560 --> 05:19.560 No. 05:19.560 --> 05:20.560 That's where you're wrong, sister. 05:20.560 --> 05:21.560 Oh? 05:21.560 --> 05:24.560 I meant every word of it. 05:24.560 --> 05:32.560 I looked at him, handsome, weak, and violent. 05:32.560 --> 05:34.560 And I think I saw it all right then. 05:34.560 --> 05:39.560 For one split second of flash of intuition, the future lit up in front of me like a marquee 05:39.560 --> 05:55.560 sign, a sign in big red letters that said, murder. 05:55.560 --> 06:08.400 For suspense, Roma wines are bringing you June Havoc in stand-in. 06:08.400 --> 06:12.920 I don't have the right face for the screen, but I've got everything else. 06:12.920 --> 06:13.920 And Denny knew it. 06:13.920 --> 06:16.200 I didn't keep it a secret from him either. 06:16.200 --> 06:18.160 Not that I had to flaunted at him. 06:18.160 --> 06:22.400 He was married to a slightly sagging movie queen at least 10 years older than I was. 06:22.400 --> 06:25.000 And he was only human. 06:25.000 --> 06:26.360 Not that I said anything either. 06:26.360 --> 06:29.000 For a week, I hardly spoke to him. 06:29.000 --> 06:33.520 First because it was smart, and then being Madame Stand-In because I was busy. 06:33.520 --> 06:38.520 There was all the flurry of getting the picture started, costumes and tests and so on, and 06:38.520 --> 06:40.040 finally the Academy Award dinner. 06:40.040 --> 06:42.440 Perhaps the less said about that, the better. 06:42.440 --> 06:46.600 It was Olivia de Hadland who got the award, of course, not Madame. 06:46.600 --> 06:50.440 And she found out about it just before the dinner and threw all fwing-ding. 06:50.440 --> 06:53.840 But we got her out of there and brought her home before she caused too much damage. 06:53.840 --> 06:57.080 And Mike called a doctor and he gave her a sedative. 06:57.080 --> 07:03.600 Then Denny and I were alone for the first time, all alone in that big rambling mausoleum 07:03.600 --> 07:04.600 of a house. 07:04.600 --> 07:05.600 Diane? 07:05.600 --> 07:06.600 Yes? 07:06.600 --> 07:08.600 Come over here, won't you? 07:08.600 --> 07:09.600 I'm all right here. 07:09.600 --> 07:11.600 Then I'll come over there. 07:11.600 --> 07:13.600 I'm not used to these big spaces. 07:13.600 --> 07:15.880 But keep a little space, huh, Denny? 07:15.880 --> 07:17.440 I'm not used to no space. 07:17.440 --> 07:18.440 I know. 07:18.440 --> 07:20.600 I've got no business even looking at you. 07:20.600 --> 07:21.600 But... 07:21.600 --> 07:22.600 But what? 07:22.600 --> 07:26.640 For a week now, I've been watching you, thinking about you. 07:26.640 --> 07:27.640 I know. 07:27.640 --> 07:28.640 Do you? 07:28.640 --> 07:29.640 Did you? 07:29.640 --> 07:33.800 Well, those things don't usually happen to just one person, Denny. 07:33.800 --> 07:34.800 It takes two. 07:34.800 --> 07:35.800 Diane... 07:35.800 --> 07:36.800 Oh, wait a minute, Denny. 07:36.800 --> 07:37.800 Why? 07:37.800 --> 07:40.640 There are a couple of things we'd better get straight. 07:40.640 --> 07:41.640 All right. 07:41.640 --> 07:46.880 Oh, Denny, you poor big, beautiful character, you. 07:46.880 --> 07:49.000 Why did you have to marry her? 07:49.000 --> 07:53.000 Well, things look a little different sometimes from where you are, and they do when you get 07:53.000 --> 07:54.000 there. 07:54.000 --> 07:55.000 And where were you? 07:55.000 --> 07:56.800 I was a lifeguard. 07:56.800 --> 07:58.280 Just as simple as that. 07:58.280 --> 07:59.960 And you thought this looked even easier? 07:59.960 --> 08:04.080 Well, there wasn't anyone else, and I thought, well, Hollywood, glamour, luxury. 08:04.080 --> 08:07.560 I might even get a break myself if funny things have happened. 08:07.560 --> 08:08.560 Now you know. 08:08.560 --> 08:09.560 Yeah. 08:09.560 --> 08:10.560 Now I know. 08:10.560 --> 08:14.560 But you still want those things that you married her for, don't you? 08:14.560 --> 08:16.760 Sure, I suppose so. 08:16.760 --> 08:19.920 But I want something else now. 08:19.920 --> 08:20.920 Me? 08:20.920 --> 08:21.920 Yeah. 08:21.920 --> 08:22.920 Sure. 08:22.920 --> 08:27.600 You got what you want, but I haven't. 08:27.600 --> 08:29.280 And I'm not settling for anything less. 08:29.280 --> 08:32.120 I'm not going to be the little girl that you see when you want to and then come back and 08:32.120 --> 08:33.880 lie around in your swimming pool. 08:33.880 --> 08:35.440 I want a swimming pool too. 08:35.440 --> 08:38.920 Well, maybe there's a way we can have it together. 08:38.920 --> 08:39.920 Sure. 08:39.920 --> 08:42.240 There is a way. 08:42.240 --> 08:44.160 What way are you thinking about? 08:44.160 --> 08:48.120 A way that people like us would never want to take. 08:48.120 --> 08:49.120 Hmm. 08:49.120 --> 08:51.160 I suppose we did. 08:51.160 --> 08:53.160 It would be different. 08:53.160 --> 08:56.160 Is that a deal? 08:56.160 --> 08:57.160 Sure. 08:57.160 --> 09:00.160 That's a deal. 09:00.160 --> 09:03.160 Casual. 09:03.160 --> 09:04.160 The light touch. 09:04.160 --> 09:07.160 But it was there just the same. 09:07.160 --> 09:08.920 We never spoke about it after that. 09:08.920 --> 09:12.880 Things went along and, well, I'm only human too. 09:12.880 --> 09:15.880 But there was always that understanding between us. 09:15.880 --> 09:19.920 All that time we were just waiting, I guess, for what they call in the crime stories the 09:19.920 --> 09:21.320 opportunities. 09:21.320 --> 09:25.200 And then on the last week of the shooting schedule on Madame's new picture, it came. 09:25.200 --> 09:29.080 There was only one more take before we knocked off that day so I was free to go home. 09:29.080 --> 09:33.160 But everybody else was jumpy and irritable as usual, particularly Madame. 09:33.160 --> 09:34.160 And then I saw Demi walking down the stage. 09:34.160 --> 09:35.160 Don't blame me for holding up the picture. 09:35.160 --> 09:36.160 You're the director. 09:36.160 --> 09:37.160 I'm not. 09:37.160 --> 09:38.160 Oh, please, Madame. 09:38.160 --> 09:39.160 Are they ready any time you say? 09:39.160 --> 09:40.160 Make it ten minutes. 09:40.160 --> 09:41.160 Well, really. 09:41.160 --> 09:42.160 Okay, fellas, move in for the close-up. 09:42.160 --> 09:43.160 Oh, hello there, Maggie. 09:43.160 --> 09:44.160 Oh, it's you. 09:44.160 --> 09:45.160 Yeah, when are you quitting? 09:45.160 --> 09:46.160 Oh, Dennis, how do I know? 09:46.160 --> 09:50.160 I'm not the director. 09:50.160 --> 09:51.160 I'm merely the star. 09:51.160 --> 09:54.160 You know, we're supposed to be aboard the yacht by 730. 09:54.160 --> 09:55.160 There'll be people waiting. 09:55.160 --> 09:56.160 All right, all right. 09:56.160 --> 09:57.160 Let them wait. 09:57.160 --> 09:58.160 Yeah, but yesterday you said... 09:58.160 --> 09:59.160 Oh, yesterday, yesterday I said one thing. 09:59.160 --> 10:00.160 Today I am working. 10:00.160 --> 10:02.120 Now shut up and leave me alone. 10:02.120 --> 10:03.120 Don't talk to me that way, Maggie. 10:03.120 --> 10:04.120 What? 10:04.120 --> 10:05.120 I'm your husband, remember? 10:05.120 --> 10:06.120 Yes. 10:06.120 --> 10:07.120 And I've had about all of that. 10:07.120 --> 10:08.120 I can stand, too. 10:08.120 --> 10:09.120 Now you get out of here. 10:09.120 --> 10:10.120 Do you hear me? 10:10.120 --> 10:11.120 Get out of here. 10:11.120 --> 10:12.120 Okay, Maggie. 10:12.120 --> 10:13.120 And you might start looking for a good divorce lawyer. 10:13.120 --> 10:14.120 I think you're going to need one. 10:14.120 --> 10:17.120 All right, come on, now. 10:17.120 --> 10:18.120 Hello. 10:18.120 --> 10:19.120 What? 10:19.120 --> 10:20.120 Oh, hello, darling. 10:20.120 --> 10:23.920 Let's take a little stroll out of the gate, shall we? 10:23.920 --> 10:24.920 I could use some fresh air. 10:24.920 --> 10:25.920 Come on. 10:25.920 --> 10:28.920 We'll shut out the big stage door here. 10:28.920 --> 10:29.920 Okay. 10:29.920 --> 10:35.440 Well, it doesn't look like I have much longer, does it? 10:35.440 --> 10:36.440 Not much. 10:36.440 --> 10:38.120 Now or never. 10:38.120 --> 10:40.800 I'm not quite sure I know what you're talking about, Dennis. 10:40.800 --> 10:41.800 Let's quit kidding ourselves. 10:41.800 --> 10:42.800 You know what I'm talking about. 10:42.800 --> 10:43.800 If she divorces me, we're finished. 10:43.800 --> 10:44.800 All right, I'm finished. 10:44.800 --> 10:47.800 So if we are ever going to do anything, it's got to be now. 10:47.800 --> 10:48.800 All right, let's quit kidding ourselves. 10:48.800 --> 10:49.800 Are we going to do anything? 10:49.800 --> 10:50.800 I would, if I knew how. 10:50.800 --> 10:51.800 There's the guard at the gate. 10:51.800 --> 10:52.800 Good evening, Mr. O'Brien. 10:52.800 --> 10:53.800 Miss Burke? 10:53.800 --> 10:54.800 Hey, madame, can I please have your autograph? 10:54.800 --> 10:55.800 I'm afraid you got the wrong gal, sonny. 10:55.800 --> 10:56.800 I'm not madame. 10:56.800 --> 10:57.800 You can't fool me, madame. 10:57.800 --> 10:58.800 You're shooting that picture, Carmelita. 10:58.800 --> 10:59.800 Oh, come on, Peter, will you? 10:59.800 --> 11:00.800 I even see you in the same dress lots of times. 11:00.800 --> 11:01.800 Oh, sure, they fixed me up to look like madame, but I'm not. 11:01.800 --> 11:02.800 I'm only your stand-in. 11:02.800 --> 11:03.800 Stand-in? 11:03.800 --> 11:04.800 Come on, darling. 11:04.800 --> 11:05.800 I'm not madame. 11:05.800 --> 11:13.800 Wait a minute. 11:13.800 --> 11:16.800 Look, sonny. 11:16.800 --> 11:20.800 They got to have somebody standing in there so they can focus everything just right, and 11:20.800 --> 11:21.800 that's me. 11:21.800 --> 11:24.800 Then when they're ready to shoot the scene, madame comes out all fresh and pretty in place. 11:24.800 --> 11:25.800 Have you seen her? 11:25.800 --> 11:26.800 Oh, you sure look like her, though. 11:26.800 --> 11:27.800 Well, that's what they pay me for. 11:27.800 --> 11:28.800 Diane. 11:28.800 --> 11:29.800 What? 11:29.800 --> 11:30.800 That's it. 11:30.800 --> 11:31.800 That's the how right there. 11:31.800 --> 11:32.800 The what? 11:32.800 --> 11:33.800 How. 11:33.800 --> 11:34.800 The kid just told us just now. 11:34.800 --> 11:35.800 How do you? 11:35.800 --> 11:36.800 Sure. 11:36.800 --> 11:37.800 Out of the mouths of babes. 11:37.800 --> 11:38.800 How to murder your wife. 11:38.800 --> 11:39.800 The whole thing would take about 20 minutes. 11:39.800 --> 11:40.800 But it had to be timed and planned to the split second. 11:40.800 --> 11:41.800 We planned it for the last day and the last shot of the picture. 11:41.800 --> 11:42.800 When everybody let down and get sort of half hysterical at the idea that the thing is finally 11:42.800 --> 11:43.800 over. 11:43.800 --> 11:44.800 Shooting schedule was made for us. 11:44.800 --> 11:45.800 The last shot with madame was on an enormous set of a kitchen table. 11:45.800 --> 11:46.800 Oh, that's great. 11:46.800 --> 11:47.800 It was a great idea. 11:47.800 --> 11:48.800 It was a great idea. 11:48.800 --> 11:49.800 Oh, dear. 11:49.800 --> 11:50.800 Oh, my dear. 11:50.800 --> 11:51.800 Oh, my dear. 11:51.800 --> 11:52.800 Oh, my dear. 11:52.800 --> 11:53.800 Oh, my dear. 11:53.800 --> 11:54.800 Oh, my dear. 11:54.800 --> 11:55.800 Oh, my dear. 11:55.800 --> 11:56.800 Oh, my dear. 11:56.800 --> 11:57.800 Oh, my dear. 11:57.800 --> 11:58.800 Oh, my dear. 11:58.800 --> 12:05.800 Oh, my dear. 12:05.800 --> 12:12.800 Oh, my dear. 12:12.800 --> 12:17.800 Oh, my dear. 12:17.800 --> 12:24.800 Oh, my dear. 12:24.800 --> 12:31.800 Oh, my dear. 12:31.800 --> 12:38.800 Oh, my dear. 12:38.800 --> 12:43.800 Oh, my dear. 12:43.800 --> 12:50.800 Oh, my dear. 12:50.800 --> 12:57.800 Oh, my dear. 12:57.800 --> 13:04.800 Oh, my dear. 13:04.800 --> 13:09.800 Oh, my dear. 13:09.800 --> 13:16.800 Oh, my dear. 13:16.800 --> 13:23.800 Oh, my dear. 13:23.800 --> 13:30.800 Oh, my dear. 13:30.800 --> 13:31.800 You're leaving, Guzlany? 13:31.800 --> 13:32.800 Yeah, I got my orders. 13:32.800 --> 13:35.800 She said to call her when you're ready. 13:35.800 --> 13:36.800 Okay. 13:36.800 --> 13:37.800 Night, Guzlany. 13:37.800 --> 13:38.800 Night. 13:38.800 --> 13:39.800 Seven minutes. 13:39.800 --> 13:40.800 Seven minutes were gone. 13:40.800 --> 13:41.800 Now he'd be passing the gauze. 13:41.800 --> 13:46.800 Good night, Mr. O'Brien. 13:46.800 --> 13:47.800 Night. 13:47.800 --> 13:52.800 And now he'd be walking down the studio street and turning the corner at the other end of 13:52.800 --> 13:55.800 stage one and strolling over to the gauze at the main gate. 13:55.800 --> 13:56.800 Oh, hello, Mr. O'Brien. 13:56.800 --> 13:57.800 Going home now? 13:57.800 --> 13:58.800 I wish I knew. 13:58.800 --> 13:59.800 You married Matt? 13:59.800 --> 14:00.800 I know what you mean. 14:00.800 --> 14:01.800 Well, I got my orders and all I can do is carry him out. 14:01.800 --> 14:02.800 Ours is not to question why, huh? 14:02.800 --> 14:03.800 Yeah, that's right. 14:03.800 --> 14:04.800 I'm going to get my orders. 14:04.800 --> 14:05.800 I'm going to get my orders. 14:05.800 --> 14:06.800 I'm going to get my orders. 14:06.800 --> 14:07.800 I'm going to get my orders. 14:07.800 --> 14:08.800 I'm going to get my orders. 14:08.800 --> 14:09.800 I'm going to get my orders. 14:09.800 --> 14:10.800 I'm going to get my orders. 14:10.800 --> 14:11.800 You're going to get your orders? 14:11.800 --> 14:12.800 I am and I will get them. 14:12.800 --> 14:13.800 We're going to do a reception for you. 14:13.800 --> 14:14.800 Oh, that's great. 14:14.800 --> 14:15.800 That's great. 14:15.800 --> 14:16.800 I'll get my orders. 14:16.800 --> 14:17.800 What happened, Mr. O'Brien? 14:17.800 --> 14:18.800 You're going home now, aren't you? 14:18.800 --> 14:19.800 Yes. 14:19.800 --> 14:20.800 Oh, thanks. 14:20.800 --> 14:21.800 Good evening, Mr. O'Brien. 14:21.800 --> 14:22.800 Yes. 14:22.800 --> 14:23.800 Good evening. 14:23.800 --> 14:24.800 I was going home in the morning. 14:24.800 --> 14:25.800 Yes. 14:25.800 --> 14:26.800 That's right. 14:26.800 --> 14:27.800 You're waiting for Madame. 14:27.800 --> 14:28.800 Yup. 14:28.800 --> 14:29.800 She told me to wait until exactly eleven o'clock and if she wasn't out here to go on home 14:29.800 --> 14:30.800 so I got ten or fifteen minutes to kill. 14:30.800 --> 14:31.800 Take her in. 14:31.800 --> 14:32.800 Oh, thanks. 14:32.800 --> 14:33.800 Don't mind if I do. 14:33.800 --> 14:34.800 He'd stay there now. 14:34.800 --> 14:35.800 He'd stay there until it was time. 14:35.800 --> 14:42.800 Just five minutes before, I had passed that same guard on the safe door. 14:42.800 --> 14:44.800 Good night, Miss Burke. 14:44.800 --> 14:47.800 Good night. 14:47.800 --> 14:51.800 And I had walked down the same studio street and passed the same guard at the main gate. 14:51.800 --> 14:53.800 Well, finally knocking off, eh, Miss Burke? 14:53.800 --> 14:54.800 That's right. Good night. 14:54.800 --> 14:57.800 Yeah, good night, Miss Burke. Good night. 14:57.800 --> 15:00.800 I had walked straight ahead, as though I was going to the bus line. 15:00.800 --> 15:05.800 And then, when I was out of sight of the main gate, I ducked up a little side street that runs along the west end of the lot. 15:05.800 --> 15:07.800 I kept in the shadows now, watching every move. 15:07.800 --> 15:09.800 About a hundred feet from the corner, there's another gate. 15:09.800 --> 15:11.800 It's usually locked and never used. 15:11.800 --> 15:14.800 But they'd been shooting in exterior and they'd taken the gate off the hinges. 15:14.800 --> 15:19.800 There were barricades across the entrance and a watchman would pass by every fifteen minutes and then round up the corner. 15:19.800 --> 15:23.800 He was passing now. I waited in the shadows. 15:23.800 --> 15:27.800 Now, he was gone. Now. Now was the time. 15:27.800 --> 15:29.800 I took a quick look around. There was no one in sight. 15:29.800 --> 15:34.800 I dashed to the gate and was over the barricades in an instant and running as softly as I could to the back of stage one. 15:34.800 --> 15:37.800 A big door at the back where they move in the scenery and the flats was open about a foot. 15:37.800 --> 15:38.800 We'd seen to that. 15:38.800 --> 15:44.800 And I squeezed in and I made my way behind the scenes to Madame's dressing room. 15:44.800 --> 15:47.800 I opened the door and closed it behind me. 15:47.800 --> 15:51.800 And then I knew for sure that Denny had been there and done his part. 15:51.800 --> 15:56.800 She was lying on the floor with the marks of his big hand still on her throat. 15:56.800 --> 15:59.800 She was dead. 16:04.800 --> 16:11.800 It was 1057. I had on the costume with the veil over my face and there was nothing to do but wait. 16:11.800 --> 16:15.800 Wait there, shot up in a little room with a dead woman. 16:15.800 --> 16:18.800 For them to call her and for me to play her part. 16:18.800 --> 16:24.800 I tried not to look at her lying there and finally... 16:24.800 --> 16:27.800 We're all ready, Madame. 16:30.800 --> 16:32.800 I waited for the steps to die away. 16:32.800 --> 16:34.800 And then I opened the door. 16:34.800 --> 16:38.800 As Denny had said, it was now or never. 16:38.800 --> 16:41.800 I walked out and took my place on the set. 16:41.800 --> 16:43.800 I nodded my head. 16:43.800 --> 16:45.800 Rolling. 16:45.800 --> 16:48.800 Feet. 16:48.800 --> 16:54.800 Action. 16:54.800 --> 16:58.800 Out of the corner of my eye, I caught the camera on the big boom. 16:58.800 --> 17:01.800 Slowly beginning to pull back. 17:01.800 --> 17:03.800 It seemed a million miles away. 17:03.800 --> 17:06.800 I began walking down the aisle of the cathedral. 17:06.800 --> 17:10.800 There was no sound so I was getting direction all the way. 17:10.800 --> 17:12.800 And that was Madame. 17:12.800 --> 17:14.800 Slowly now. 17:14.800 --> 17:20.800 Slowly. Remember your overwhelmed with grief. 17:20.800 --> 17:22.800 Now you kneel. 17:22.800 --> 17:24.800 That's it. 17:24.800 --> 17:28.800 Now you clasp your hands together. 17:28.800 --> 17:31.800 Now cast your eyes upward. 17:31.800 --> 17:34.800 That's it. Perfect. 17:34.800 --> 17:36.800 Now hold it. 17:36.800 --> 17:38.800 A little longer. 17:38.800 --> 17:41.800 A little longer. 17:41.800 --> 17:42.800 Cut. 17:42.800 --> 17:44.800 That's all boys. 17:49.800 --> 17:50.800 That was all. 17:50.800 --> 17:53.800 I had to keep myself from running as I started back to the dressing room. 17:53.800 --> 17:55.800 But when I got there, I sprinted. 17:55.800 --> 17:57.800 Around the corner and out to the big door. 17:57.800 --> 17:58.800 Denny's car was there all right. 17:58.800 --> 18:01.800 With the back door open and I slipped into it and laid down on the floor of the back seat. 18:01.800 --> 18:03.800 It was 11 o'clock. 18:03.800 --> 18:05.800 Now it looks like my time's up. 18:05.800 --> 18:06.800 Yes. 18:06.800 --> 18:08.800 Couple of minutes after 11. 18:08.800 --> 18:09.800 Guess she's not coming, huh? 18:09.800 --> 18:10.800 Guess not. 18:10.800 --> 18:12.800 Well, orders is orders. 18:12.800 --> 18:15.800 Yes, that's right Mr. O'Brien. 18:15.800 --> 18:18.800 I could hear his steps coming over to the car. 18:18.800 --> 18:22.800 And then getting in and then we were starting off. 18:22.800 --> 18:24.800 Good night Mr. O'Brien. 18:24.800 --> 18:26.800 Good night. 18:32.800 --> 18:33.800 You back there Diane? 18:33.800 --> 18:36.800 Yes. I'm here. 18:36.800 --> 18:38.800 Well we made it baby. 18:38.800 --> 18:40.800 We made it. 18:47.800 --> 18:49.800 We knew they probably wouldn't find her till the next day. 18:49.800 --> 18:53.800 Even a director wouldn't dare disturb her if he got no answer at the dressing room door. 18:53.800 --> 18:54.800 And that's what happened. 18:54.800 --> 18:58.800 We got the news about mid-morning and of course everybody in the lot was grief stricken. 18:58.800 --> 19:04.800 And that afternoon everybody who'd be on the Carmelita set or had anything to do with Madame was called into projection room A. 19:04.800 --> 19:07.800 That's when we first met Lieutenant Malone. 19:07.800 --> 19:12.800 I know you folks all feel bad about this. 19:12.800 --> 19:15.800 But we might as well lay it on the line. 19:15.800 --> 19:17.800 The lady's dead. 19:17.800 --> 19:21.800 And someone who was on that set is the one who killed her. 19:21.800 --> 19:25.800 Now, you're the husband aren't you, Dennis O'Brien? 19:25.800 --> 19:27.800 That's right. 19:27.800 --> 19:30.800 Well, you know how we work these things. 19:30.800 --> 19:33.800 Motive and opportunity. 19:33.800 --> 19:35.800 And just off hand Mr. O'Brien. 19:35.800 --> 19:38.800 You practically got a corner on the motive, Marcus. 19:38.800 --> 19:40.800 I suppose I have. 19:40.800 --> 19:42.800 Oh, but Lieutenant, a dozen people saw Dennis. 19:42.800 --> 19:44.800 Mr. O'Brien leave the set before she was killed. 19:44.800 --> 19:46.800 Before she made the last shot. 19:46.800 --> 19:48.800 And he was out talking to the guard the whole time after that. 19:48.800 --> 19:50.800 And then he went straight home and he couldn't have done it. 19:50.800 --> 19:53.800 Yeah, I know. It's a good alibi. 19:53.800 --> 19:54.800 Awful good. 19:54.800 --> 19:57.800 But how do you know some stranger didn't kill her? 19:57.800 --> 20:01.800 Maybe she fell asleep in the dressing room after the shot and some prowler... 20:01.800 --> 20:05.800 Nah, nah, nah. It just doesn't feel right. 20:05.800 --> 20:08.800 You got the film of that last shot you made. 20:08.800 --> 20:10.800 Yeah, we got it here. 20:10.800 --> 20:13.800 Let's see it, huh? 20:13.800 --> 20:17.800 Will you run that last camo lead to take again, please? 20:17.800 --> 20:20.800 Here we go. 20:22.800 --> 20:24.800 That's it, madam. 20:24.800 --> 20:26.800 Slowly now. 20:26.800 --> 20:28.800 Slowly. 20:28.800 --> 20:30.800 Remember you. 20:30.800 --> 20:31.800 What was that? 20:31.800 --> 20:33.800 That's me giving directions. 20:33.800 --> 20:35.800 It was supposed to be a silent shot. Of course, that won't be used. 20:35.800 --> 20:37.800 There'll be music to cover that. 20:37.800 --> 20:39.800 Well, let's hear it anyway. 20:39.800 --> 20:41.800 Whatever you say. 20:44.800 --> 20:46.800 That's it. Perfect. 20:46.800 --> 20:48.800 Hold it. 20:48.800 --> 20:50.800 A little longer. 20:50.800 --> 20:52.800 Just a little longer. 20:52.800 --> 20:54.800 Cut! 20:54.800 --> 20:56.800 That's all there is to it. 20:56.800 --> 20:58.800 Yeah. Not much there. 20:58.800 --> 21:02.800 My lieutenant, nobody in the studio would have touched a hair of madame's head. 21:02.800 --> 21:04.800 We all loved her so much. 21:04.800 --> 21:10.800 Yeah, you better learn a little more about the picture business before you start throwing wild accusations around. 21:10.800 --> 21:13.800 I think you got something there, Mike. 21:13.800 --> 21:15.800 Maybe I'll do that. 21:15.800 --> 21:17.800 Maybe I'll just do that little thing. 21:23.800 --> 21:25.800 A month went by. 21:25.800 --> 21:29.800 Of course, Denny and I didn't dare see much of each other, but things were going along. 21:29.800 --> 21:31.800 I'd even had a couple of small parts. 21:31.800 --> 21:36.800 On the strength of all the publicity about madame, somebody discovered that maybe I did have the right face for the scream. 21:36.800 --> 21:39.800 And then one day we got a call to go to projection room A. 21:39.800 --> 21:42.800 And there was Lieutenant Malone again. 21:42.800 --> 21:45.800 Just make yourselves comfortable, folks. 21:45.800 --> 21:47.800 I've got something to show you. 21:47.800 --> 21:49.800 I hope it's more than you had the last time. 21:49.800 --> 21:51.800 Yeah, Mike, yeah. 21:51.800 --> 21:54.800 I've been learning the picture business, like you said. 21:54.800 --> 21:56.800 I've learned a lot, too. 21:56.800 --> 22:02.800 All about silent shots and sound shots and wild track and dubbing and stand-ins. 22:02.800 --> 22:04.800 What? 22:04.800 --> 22:07.800 You were madame stand-in, weren't you, Miss Burke? 22:07.800 --> 22:09.800 Yes, I was. 22:09.800 --> 22:11.800 Uh-huh. 22:11.800 --> 22:13.800 You looked quite a lot like her, too. 22:13.800 --> 22:15.800 Well, a little, I suppose. 22:15.800 --> 22:19.800 Oh, you'd fool me, all right, if your back was turned. 22:19.800 --> 22:23.800 Well, I've been fooling around down in the cutting rooms. 22:23.800 --> 22:27.800 I never realized before how much stuff got thrown away. 22:27.800 --> 22:29.800 I made a little collection of it. 22:29.800 --> 22:31.800 I want to show it to you. 22:31.800 --> 22:33.800 Here we go. 22:33.800 --> 22:42.800 ... 22:42.800 --> 22:45.800 That is a wild soundtrack. 22:45.800 --> 22:48.800 You make that separate and mix it in after you've made your film, right? 22:48.800 --> 22:53.800 You can make sound without pictures just the same as you can make pictures without sound, right? 22:53.800 --> 22:57.800 Now, that day you folks were making that last shot of Carmelita, 22:57.800 --> 23:02.800 the sound engineers were sort of slap happy, it being the last day and all, 23:02.800 --> 23:05.800 and so they just pushed their microphones out of the way. 23:05.800 --> 23:09.800 But they forgot to turn off the sound, 23:09.800 --> 23:15.800 and they pushed that mic right up against madame's dressing room before the last shot. 23:15.800 --> 23:19.800 And the cameraman was running some test film, and here's what he got. 23:19.800 --> 23:23.800 I found this in a cutting room trash bin. 23:26.800 --> 23:29.800 Close the door, Danny. 23:29.800 --> 23:30.800 Yes, that's it. 23:30.800 --> 23:32.800 You sit down, make yourself comfortable. 23:32.800 --> 23:33.800 No, thanks. 23:33.800 --> 23:35.800 Oh, don't be silly. There's just one more take, and then we'll talk. 23:35.800 --> 23:36.800 You're not going to make it though, Maggie. 23:36.800 --> 23:37.800 What do you mean? 23:37.800 --> 23:39.800 I mean, you're through, Maggie. You're through. 23:39.800 --> 23:46.800 I'm finished. 23:46.800 --> 23:50.800 Well, I guess that's it. 23:50.800 --> 23:54.800 Huh, Mr. O'Brien? Miss Burke? 23:54.800 --> 24:10.800 Yes. Yes, I guess that's it. 24:10.800 --> 24:15.800 I haven't seen Danny since the trial. I wonder if I'll see him afterwards. 24:15.800 --> 24:18.800 If what the preachers say is right, I suppose I will. 24:18.800 --> 24:21.800 And of course madame will be down there too. 24:21.800 --> 24:26.800 I can't think of any worse punishment than being her stand-in through all eternity. 24:26.800 --> 24:48.800 So I suppose that's what I'll get. 24:48.800 --> 24:56.800 Suspense presented by Roma Wines, R-O-M-A, Roma, America's favorite wines. 24:56.800 --> 25:00.800 In a moment, we'll hear again from June Havoc, star of tonight's suspense play. 25:00.800 --> 25:05.800 Meanwhile, this is Truman Bradley with a suggestion that you try Roma Wines 25:05.800 --> 25:10.800 and discover for yourself the important difference, the extra taste luxury 25:10.800 --> 25:14.800 that makes Roma America's most preferred wine. 25:14.800 --> 25:18.800 You'll find that Roma Wines taste better because Roma alone 25:18.800 --> 25:22.800 selects from the world's greatest reserves of fine wines. 25:22.800 --> 25:26.800 You will also find that you now pay less for Roma's premium quality, 25:26.800 --> 25:31.800 that you actually save up to 20% on these better tasting wines. 25:31.800 --> 25:34.800 Tomorrow, buy a supply of Roma California Sherry, 25:34.800 --> 25:40.800 that perfect appetizer before dinner, that gracious gesture when friends drop in. 25:40.800 --> 25:43.800 This is June Havoc. Suspense is one of my favorite programs, 25:43.800 --> 25:45.800 and I got a real thrill appearing on it tonight. 25:45.800 --> 25:49.800 I'm going to be listening to next week's suspense show when Elliot Reid will be the star. 25:49.800 --> 25:51.800 Thanks a lot and good night. 25:51.800 --> 25:56.800 June Havoc will soon be seen opposite George Raft in the United Artists Production Intrigue. 25:56.800 --> 26:00.800 Tonight's suspense play was by Robert Richards and Pamela Wilcox. 26:00.800 --> 26:06.800 Next Thursday, same time, you will hear Mr. Elliot Reid as star of Suspense. 26:06.800 --> 26:24.800 Produced by William Spear for the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California.