Sorry, Wrong Number
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Sorry Wrong Number StudySync Intro
Sorry, Wrong Number is a 1943 radio play by Lucille Fletcher that was adapted into a popular 1948 film starring Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. Altogether, Fletcher wrote more than a dozen radio plays in her career, including 1941’s The Hitch-Hiker, which debuted on the Orson Welles Show and was later adapted into a famous Twilight Zone episode in 1960. Sorry, Wrong Number first appeared on the radio series Suspense, on May 25, 1943, and is often considered Fletcher’s greatest work. The play relies on voices and sound effects to create a world of increasing fear for a neurotic woman alone in her New York apartment. In this excerpt from the first scene of Act I, the playwright develops the suspenseful plot through the use of a party line, or a shared telephone line in the days when operators used manual switchboards to connect one person to another.
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Lucille Fletcher's Sorry, Wrong Number presented by L.A. Theatre Works
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