Radio review - Ford Theatre - "The Late Christopher Bean" (1947) ** (warning: spoilers)

Sidney Howard originally wrote this dull satire about a lodger who dies then becomes famous as a painter and the household where he lived squabble over his now-valuable paintings. The only one who likes them for art is the household maid, of whom he did a portrait and who loved him - her nasty treatment at the hands of the head of the house (bullying rather than violent) gives this some kick, but it's all rather mild, with an unconvincing deux ex machina of the maid turning out to be married to the painter. This was recently revived on Broadway but I can't see a hell of a lot of point to it.