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Podcast: Breaking Walls: The Podcast on the History of American Network Radio Broadcasting
Episode: BW - EP154—007: Stars On Suspense In 1944—Listen to Vincent Price As A Mad Man In "Fugue In C Minor"
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The man you just heard is famed actor Vincent Price. While Price was a film star, he had a unique contract which allowed him to act in as much radio as he wanted.
By early June 1944 Price was thirty-three years old and had starred on Broadway and appeared in more than ten films.
On Thursday June 1st and then again on Monday June 5th for the west coast, Price appeared with Ida Lupino in an episode of Suspense called “Fugue in C Minor.” Written by Lucille Fletcher, it’s a horror story...