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As Lucille once explained in an interview, Sorry, Wrong Number was partially inspired by an incident from someone else's life. While Herrmann was sick at home, Lucille went down to the corner drug store for medicine.
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Downloadable PDFs. Plot Summary. Lucille Fletcher’s Sorry, Wrong Number is a one-act play and radio drama concerning Mrs. Stevenson, a housewife who experiences extreme anxiety and must remain in bed. Mrs. Stevenson never leaves the house, and the only people she sees are her husband, Elbert, and her maid, Eloise.
Downloadable PDFs. Lucille Fletcher first penned Sorry, Wrong Number as a radio play because she was drawn to the idea of a thriller that relies on sound, not image, to build suspense. In recent years, dramatized podcasts and audiobooks have risen in popularity, with one of the most beloved genres being true crime.
Sorry Wrong Number by Lucille Fletcher - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. story/poem
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This is the case of Lucille Fletcher’s “Sorry, Wrong Number” (1952), the story of a disabled woman who listens to the plotting of her own murder through the phone, the forgotten classic that initiated a tradition of missed calls and bad connections in the horror industry.
Lucille Fletcher's drama Sorry, Wrong Number was first performed as a radio play in 1943. In the preface to the published version, Fletcher writes, "This play was originally designed as an experiment in sound and not just as a murder story."
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Apr 9, 2012 · Lucille Fletcher, McGraw Hill. Dramatists Play Service Inc, Apr 9, 2012 - Drama - 41 pages. THE STORIES: SORRY, WRONG NUMBER. A mystery thriller, the tale of a neurotic invalid, whose only...
