Thursday, December 10, 2009

Radio review – CP#40 - “Vanessa” (1939) **

Wafty romance with Helen Hayes in the lead opposite Orson Welles. (Hayes was the most common co-star of Welles in Campbell Playhouse, you get sick of her.) It touches on insanity – a woman enters a loveless marriage with a bloke who goes bonkers – but the tone isn’t gothic, more… wet. Falls into the “sap” sub-genre of Campbell Playhouse, like The Apple Tree.

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