The Suspense Project: 1945-02-08 A Tale of Two Sisters - Free Audiobook

A Tale of Two Sisters is another Mel Dinelli script about two sisters who formed a childhood pact to always be together. Later, one of them falls in love and marries. The spurned sister's jealousy takes a wicked turn and becomes very dangerous. The production has creative use of flashbacks and disturbing background sounds of a mental institution. Claire Trevor and Nancy Kelly star.

There are two network recordings. The better recording is the west coast recording (WC). The east coast recording (EC) is very listenable.

This script would be presented again in 1949 as The Ten Years with Joan Crawford. That broadcast has backroom negotiations and meanderings that rival a Suspense drama itself. Crawford’s 1949 appearance on Suspense involved her insistence that Suspense alter its production methods, had her stage two publicity stunts, Auto-Lite rejecting a new Dinelli script (“The Hand,” which would never be broadcast), and other hiccups along the way. But other than that, it was just another humdrum week's work for radio's outstanding theater of thrills.

The cast:

NANCY KELLY (Adele Norris), CLAIRE TREVOR (Clara Foley), Joe Kearns (Man in Black), Wally Maher (Judge), Walter Tetley (Doug Foley, Jr.), Conrad Binyon? (Roy), unknown (Young Adele), unknown (Young Clara), unknown (Nurse Willard)