Stars on Suspense (Old Time Radio)
452 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 370 ratingsPresenting the biggest legends of Hollywood starring in "Suspense," radio's outstanding theater of thrills! Each week, we'll hear two chillers from this old time radio classic featuring one of the all-time great stars of stage and screen.
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Episode 135 - Dinah Shore
June 13, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBDinah Shore was one of the most popular singers of the 1940s, with nearly 100 chart-topping hits like "Blues in the Night" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside." For her one and only appearance on Suspense, she starred and sang in "Frankie and Johnny" (originally aired on CBS on May 5, 1952) = a dramatic retelling of the classic ballad. We'll also hear her clowning around with Groucho Marx in an episode from her musical variety show (originally aired on NBC on March 15, 1945).
Episode 134 - Van Heflin (Part 2)
June 06, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBIn movies like 3:10 to Yuma and Shane, Van Heflin shined as ordinary men standing up to evil. But in his visits to Suspense, Heflin usually shed his heroic trappings and kept audiences thrilled as villains. We'll hear him as a pair of heels in "Song of the Heart" (originally aired on CBS on August 26, 1948) and "Three O'Clock" (originally aired on CBS on March 10, 1949).
Episode 133 - William Bendix (Part 2)
May 30, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBThough he's best known to old time radio fans as lovable lug Chester A. Riley, William Bendix made a name for himself as rough and tumble tough guys in movies like Lifeboat and The Blue Dahlia. He showed off that side of his persona when he made visits to Suspense. We'll bid goodbye to him this week as we wrap up his run of shows on "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" - "Pearls are a Nuisance" (originally aired on CBS on April 19, 1945) and "Break-Up" (originally aired on CBS on Decembe...
Episode 132 - Jeff Chandler
May 23, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBBefore he was an Oscar nominee, Jeff Chandler was a busy radio actor. He played a western lawyer, private eye Michael Shayne, and bashful biology teacher Mr. Boynton in Our Miss Brooks. He also played supporting roles on "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." But after his breakout film role and his rise to leading man status, Chandler moved into starring roles on Suspense. We'll hear him in "The Steel River Prison Break" (originally aired on CBS on September 3, 1951) and "The Case Agains...
Episode 131 - Kirk Douglas (Part 2)
May 16, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBFor his final visit to Suspense, three-time Academy Award nominee Kirk Douglas starred as a man whose wandering eye lands him and his new love in danger. The star of Spartacus and Ace in the Hole brings his trademark explosive style of acting to “The Butcher’s Wife” (originally aired on CBS on February 9, 1950). Then, he recreates his role from William Wyler’s Detective Story in an April 26, 1954 broadcast from The Lux Radio Theatre.
Episode 130 - Doris Day
May 14, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.4 MBWe take a break from “radio’s outstanding theater of thrills” to salute the late legend of Hollywood, Doris Day. The Oscar-nominee, box office star, recording sensation, and animal activist passed away at age 97. We’ll hear a pair of episodes from The Doris Day Show, her musical radio program. Ms. Day sings along with special guests Danny Thomas (in an episode originally aired on CBS on March 28, 1952) and Gordon MacRae and Mary Wickes (originally aired on CBS on May 9, 1952).
Episode 129 - Marie Wilson
May 09, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBMarie Wilson was best known for her radio, TV, and film work as the ditzy, scatterbrained sweetheart Irma Peterson in My Friend Irma. She played to her comedy strengths in her only appearance on Suspense – the lighthearted caper “Star Over Hong Kong” (originally aired on CBS on February 22, 1959). We’ll also hear her in her signature role in an episode of My Friend Irma (originally aired on CBS on May 3, 1948).
Episode 128 - Paul Henreid
May 02, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBIn Casablanca as resistance leader Victor Lazlo, Paul Henreid rallies a crowd to drown out the Nazis with a spirited rendition of “La Marseillaise.” But in his two visits to Suspense, he played a pair of men with murder on their minds and diabolical plans. We’ll hear him in “The Angel of Death” (originally aired on CBS on January 3, 1946) and “No More Alice” (originally aired on CBS on March 14, 1946).
Episode 127 - Anne Baxter (Part 2)
April 25, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBOscar-winning star and Batman villain Anne Baxter makes her final visit to the podcast in “The Thirteenth Sound,” a Suspense story from April 26, 1951. We’ll also hear her as she recreates her big screen, award-nominated performance from All About Eve on the Lux Radio Theatre (originally aired on CBS on October 1, 1951).
Episode 126 - Charles Boyer
April 18, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBOver the course of a nearly sixty-year career that spanned two continents, Charles Boyer was one of the screen’s most popular stars. The French actor was acclaimed for his romantic leading roles, but he could also be a memorable villain – like when he played Ingrid Bergman’s manipulative husband in Gaslight. We’ll hear the four-time Oscar nominee in a pair of tales from Suspense: “The Case of Henri Vibard” (originally aired on CBS on June 8, 1950) and “Another Man’s Poison” (originally aired...
Episode 125 - Fred MacMurray (Part 2)
April 11, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBFred MacMurray leaves flying cars and Flubber behind for his third and final appearance on Suspense. We’ll hear the star in “The Great Train Robbery” (originally aired on CBS on April 13, 1953) – a story that finds MacMurray more in Double Indemnity than Disney territory. Then, MacMurray co-stars with Irene Dunne in an episode from Bright Star, their syndicated newspaper comedy-drama series.
Episode 124 - Thomas Mitchell
April 04, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MBOne of the earliest winners of the "Triple Crown" of acting, Thomas Mitchell was an always-welcome presence in some of the greatest movies of old Hollywood. Whether he was the bumbling but lovable Uncle Billy in It's a Wonderful Life or the drunk Doc Boone in Stagecoach, Mitchell is always a treat to watch with an impish charm to his performances. He sheds that friendly nature for his two visits to Suspense: "Case History of Edgar Lowndes" (originally aired on CBS on June 8, 1944) and "John ...
Episode 123 - James Mason (Part 2)
March 28, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBFor his third and fourth visits to Suspense, James Mason played two criminals who feel the pressure of the law closing in on them. In two different tales, the star of North by Northwest and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea proves once again that the wages of sin is death. First, he’s “The Greatest Thief in the World” (originally aired on CBS on June 21, 1951). Then, he recreates his film role in an adaptation of Carol Reed’s 1947 classic noir film Odd Man Out (originally aired on CBS on February...
Episode 122 - 60s TV Stars
March 21, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 63 MBSometimes 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 ...
Episode 121 - Ray Milland (Part 2)
March 14, 2019 04:00 - 1 hour - 63.8 MBOscar-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)
March 07, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 58.5 MBVincent 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
February 28, 2019 13:00 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBFour-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 ...
Episode 118 - Ronald Colman (Part 2)
February 21, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 59 MBOscar-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
February 17, 2019 02:30 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBWhether 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)
February 07, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBCharles 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
January 31, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBAfter 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)
January 24, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBOscar-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
January 17, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBOscar 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,...
Episode 112 - Maureen O'Hara
January 10, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBFeisty, fiercely independent Maureen O'Hara - the red-headed Irish-American leading lady of old Hollywood - made only one visit to "radio's outstanding theater of thrills," but it's a great episode that finds her playing a strong woman stepping up to track down a killer. It's "The White Rose Murders" (originally aired on CBS on July 6, 1943). Then she recreates her screen role from How Green Was My Valley in a broadcast from the Gulf Screen Guild Theatre (originally aired on CBS on March 22,...
Episode 111 - Joseph Cotten (Part 3)
January 03, 2019 05:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBJoseph Cotten - hero of The Third Man and heel of Shadow of a Doubt - is back for two more visits to "radio's outstanding theater of thrills." He stars as a director caught up in a real-life mystery in "Sneak Preview" (originally aired on CBS on March 23, 1944) and as a convict who assumes the identity of a dead reverend in "Beyond Good and Evil" (originally aired on CBS on October 11, 1945).
Episode 110 - Judy Garland
December 27, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBWe couldn't let 2018 end without one more Star On Suspense, and our final leading lady of the year is the great Judy Garland. She doesn't sing in her one and only visit to Suspense but she delivers a terrific dramatic performance in "Drive-In" (originally aired on CBS on November 21, 1946). Then, she recreates her iconic film role of Dorothy Gale as The Lux Radio Theatre presents "The Wizard of Oz" (originally aired on CBS on December 25, 1950).
Episode 109 - Herbert Marshall (Part 2)
December 20, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBDapper British leading man Herbert Marshall returns to the Suspense microphone in two radio thrillers - including a chiller of a Christmas story. The star of Foreign Correspondent and The Little Foxes stars in "My Own Murderer" (originally aired on CBS on May 24, 1945) and in "Holiday Story" - an adaptation of John Collier's "Back for Christmas" - (originally aired on CBS on December 23, 1948).
Episode 108 - Mary Astor
December 13, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBOscar-winning actress Mary Astor started in the silent era, transitioned to the talkies, and worked on stage, screen, and television even as she struggled with tragedies and trials off screen. We'll hear her in the only visit she made to Suspense - "In Fear and Trembling" (originally aired on February 16, 1943). Then, Mary Astor recreates her screen role of Brigid O'Shaughnessy in a Screen Guild Theatre production of "The Maltese Falcon" (originally aired on CBS on September 20, 1943).
Episode 107 - Gene Kelly (Part 2)
December 06, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBFor Gene Kelly's final performances on Suspense, he headlined two stories as a pair of dangerous, desperate men - characters who were miles from the men he played in musicals like Anchors Away and Singing in the Rain. Kelly trades song and dance for sinister scares in "The Man Who Couldn't Lose" (originally aired on CBS on September 28, 1944) and "To Find Help" (originally aired on CBS on January 4, 1949).
Episode 106 - Gregory Peck (Part 3)
November 29, 2018 05:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBGregory Peck stars in a "ripped from the headlines" tale of teenage drug addiction in his fifth and final appearance on Suspense. Peck plays a juvenile investigator in "The Truth About Jerry Baxter" (originally aired on CBS on June 14, 1951). Then, he recreates his screen role in a radio adaptation of Yellow Sky from the Screen Director's Playhouse (originally aired on NBC on July 15, 1949).
Episode 105 - Jane Wyman
November 21, 2018 18:30 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBJane Wyman won as Oscar for her performance as a deaf-mute woman in Johnny Belinda, but this week we'll hear her put her voice to excellent use acting and singing. She stars in "Catch Me If You Can" (originally aired on CBS on February 17, 1949) and visits Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in an episode of their comedy show from November 30, 1951.
Episode 104 - Edmund Gwenn
November 16, 2018 03:30 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBEdmund Gwenn may be best known as Kris Kringle in Miracle on 34th Street, but in his two visits to Suspense no one would mistake him for Santa Claus. We'll hear the Oscar-winning English actor in Dorothy L. Sayers' "The Fountain Plays" (originally aired on CBS on August 10, 1943) and in "Murder in Black and White" (originally aired on CBS on April 14, 1949).
Episode 103 - Gloria Swanson
November 09, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 82.9 MBGloria Swanson is ready for her close-up. The silent movie star and box office sensation ruled Hollywood in the 1920s and returned with a vengeance with a sensational turn in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard. We'll hear Swanson recreate her Oscar-nominated role of Norma Desmond in a Lux Radio Theatre adaptation (originally aired on CBS on September 17, 1951). We'll also hear her one and only visit to Suspense - "Murder by the Book" (originally aired on CBS on July 10, 1947).
Episode 102 - Edward G. Robinson (Part 2)
November 02, 2018 02:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBEdward G. Robinson - one of the great big screen gangsters, begins and ends his run on Suspense with these two old time radio thrillers. We'll hear him as a man with an imaginary wife in "My Wife, Geraldine" (originally aired on CBS on March 1, 1945) and as a man who wants his actual wife to disappear in "A Case of Nerves" (originally aired on CBS on June 1, 1950).
Episode 101 - Robert Taylor
October 25, 2018 21:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB"The man with the perfect profile" enjoyed great success as a Hollywood leading man, but Robert Taylor explored darker, more complex roles as his career went on. We'll hear the star in a pair of radio thrillers - "Four Hours to Kill" (originally aired on CBS on January 12, 1950) and - just in time for Halloween - the classic chiller "The House in Cypress Canyon" (originally aired on CBS on December 5, 1946).
Episode 100 - Beginnings and Endings
October 18, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBIt's the 100th episode of well-calculated tales from Stars On Suspense, and we're marking the occasion with the first and last episodes of "radio's outstanding theater of thrills" - "The Burning Court" (originally aired on CBS on June 17, 1942) and "Devilstone" (originally aired on CBS on September 30, 1962). Plus - we'll hear "The Lodger," the Forecast episode that served as a sort of audition for the program (originally aired on CBS on July 22, 1940).
Episode 99 - Myrna Loy
October 11, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MBOne of the screen's brightest stars, Myrna Loy broke out with her wry and sophisticated comedy turn as Nora Charles in The Thin Man and grew so popular she earned the nickname "Queen of the Movies." Her one and only appearance on Suspense played to her talents with both comedy and drama. It's a tale of a librarian on a quest to find a vandal in "Library Book" (originally aired on CBS on September 20, 1945). We'll also hear her recreate her big screen role in The Best Years of Our Lives from ...
Episode 98 - Robert Mitchum
October 04, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBEqually effective as weary heroes and psychotic villains, Robert Mitchum had a screen presence that few actors could replicate. Best known for his turns in film noir and thrillers, Mitchum gave Hollywood some of its most iconic baddies and toughest antiheroes. We'll hear him as a man plotting a murder in "Death at Live Oak" (originally aired on CBS on May 15, 1947) and as Washington Irving in a biographical drama from The Cavalcade of America (originally aired on NBC on May 3, 1948).
Episode 97 - William Conrad
September 27, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.8 MBThe great William Conrad lends his booming voice to two outstanding "tales well calculated to keep you in Suspense." One of the all-time legends of the medium, Conrad was best known as US Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, and he made these visits to Suspense during his run in one of radio's best westerns. We'll hear him in a terrifying one-man show in "The Waxwork" (originally aired on CBS on May 1, 1956) and in an amazing radio tale of high adventure in "Leningen vs. the Ants" (originally ai...
Episode 96 - Cornel Wilde
September 20, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBActor, writer, and director Cornel Wilde was a gifted mimic with a talent for languages. It served him well in his screen career, and it especially helped in his five appearances on Suspense, where Wilde could play characters both good and bad from all corners of the world. He's a man plotting a dangerous insurance fraud in "A Ring for Marya" (originally aired on CBS on December 28, 1950), and then he's a southern lawyer in the Big Apple in "Allen in Wonderland" (originally aired on CBS on O...
Episode 95 - James Cagney (Part 2)
September 13, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBIn his second and final appearance on Suspense, Jimmy Cagney stars in "No Escape," a cautionary tale of distracted (and deadly) driving (originally aired on CBS on December 16, 1948). Then we'll hear the star of Angels with Dirty Faces and Yankee Doodle Dandy in an adaptation of "Night Must Fall" from the Lady Esther Screen Guild Theater (originally aired on CBS on July 24, 1944).
Episode 94 - Claire Trevor (Part 2)
September 06, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.2 MBClaire Trevor - the "queen of film noir" - returns to the Suspense microphone in two more old time radio thrillers. We'll hear Trevor as a woman scorned out for revenge against a cheating husband in "The Light Switch" (originally aired on CBS on May 12, 1949). Then, she stars in a story from Cornell Woolrich - the master of noir fiction - in "Angel Face" (originally aired on CBS on May 18, 1950).
Episode 93 - Roddy McDowall
August 30, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MBDespite his long career in Hollywood (and his fantastic voice), Roddy McDowall made only one visit to Suspense. We'll hear the star of Planet of the Apes in "One Way Street" (originally aired on CBS on January 23, 1947). Then he's in lighter fare in an adaptation of Mark Twain's "The Prince and the Pauper" from Family Theater (originally aired on the Mutual Network on March 8, 1950).
Episode 92 - Ava Gardner
August 25, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 58.3 MBOscar-nominated actress and singer Ava Gardner turned in sensational performances in The Killers, Seven Days in May, and more, and her off-screen romances with Mickey Rooney and Frank Sinatra made for memorable chapters in Hollywood history. We'll hear Ms. Gardner in her one and only Suspense appearance - "Lady in Distress" (originally aired on CBS on May 1, 1947). Then we'll hear her as she makes a visit to Edwards Air Force Base with Bob Hope in an episode from the comedian's radio show fr...
Episode 91 - Agnes Moorehead (Part 4)
August 17, 2018 02:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBThe "First Lady of Suspense" is back! Agnes Moorehead stars in a pair of eerie thrillers that will keep you on the edge of your seat: "Uncle Henry's Rosebush" (originally aired on CBS on June 23, 1943) and an adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" (originally aired on CBS on July 29, 1948).
Episode 90 - Ronald Reagan
August 10, 2018 03:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBHail to the Chief! Before he sat in the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan made a pair of visits to the Suspense microphone. Tune in and “hear one for the Gipper.” Better yet, hear two as Reagan stars in “One and One’s a Lonesome” (originally aired on CBS on March 23, 1950) and “Circumstantial Terror” (originally aired on CBS on March 8, 1954).
Episode 89 - Alfred Hitchcock
August 08, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 60 MB“Stars On Suspense” salutes the master of suspense – Alfred Hitchcock. We’re celebrating the anniversary of the legendary director’s birth with an old time radio adaptation of one of his big screen classics. Tallulah Bankhead recreates her role in Hitch’s wartime drama set on the high seas – Lifeboat. Jeff Chandler and Sheldon Leonard join her aboard this production from the Screen Directors’ Playhouse, originally aired on NBC on November 16, 1950.
Episode 88 - John Lund
August 03, 2018 04:00 - 1 hour - 60.3 MBWe're back with more legends of Hollywood in tales well calculated to keep you in Suspense. This week, our star is John Lund, the boyishly good looking leading man who made thirteen visits to the program. He plays a man conspiring to bump off his wife's lover in "A Plane Case of Murder" (originally aired on CBS on October 10, 1946). Then, Lund is first mate on a ship with a killer among the crew in "Murder Aboard the Alphabet" (originally aired on CBS on August 21, 1947).
Episode 87 - Robert Young (Part 2)
May 25, 2018 02:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBFather may have known best, but when Robert Young starred on Suspense he played characters miles away from beloved radio and TV dad Jim Anderson. We'll hear Young co-star with Geraldine Fitzgerald in "A Friend to Alexander" (originally aired on CBS on August 3, 1943). Then, Young plays a patient in an insane asylum fighting to regain his memory in "The High Wall" (originally aired on CBS on June 6, 1946).
Episode 86 - Van Johnson
May 18, 2018 02:30 - 1 hour - 59.3 MBWith his good looks and affable demeanor, Van Johnson was a matinee idol to the bobbysoxer crowd during the war years. He went on to success on the big and small screens in a career that stretched into the 1980s. We'll hear Johnson on Suspense in "The Singing Walls" (an AFRS rebroadcast of a show from November 2, 1944) and "The Defense Rests" (originally aired on CBS on October 6, 1949).