Rebecca - Margaret Sullivan - Campbell Playhouse - Orson Welles

Margaret Sullivan stars as "The Scarlet O'Hara of 1938"... Orson Welles talks to the author Daphne du Maurier after the play.

On this first Campbell Playhouse program Orson Welles shares his vision for the shows: "Everybody likes a good story and I think radio is about the best storyteller there is. The Campbell Playhouse is dedicated to the radio production of good stories. Stories from everywhere, from the stage, from motion pictures and from literature."

While working as the companion to a rich American woman on holiday in Monte Carlo, the unnamed narrator, a naïve young woman in her early 20s, becomes acquainted with a wealthy Englishman, George Fortescue Maximilian "Maxim" de Winter, a 42-year-old widower. After a fortnight of courtship, she agrees to marry him and, after the wedding and honeymoon, accompanies him to his mansion in Cornwall, the beautiful estate Manderley.

Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel by English author Dame Daphne du Maurier. It concerns an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, only to discover that he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife

The Campbell Playhouse (1938–1940) is a live CBS radio drama series directed by and starring Orson Welles. Produced by Welles and John Houseman, it was a sponsored continuation of The Mercury Theatre on the Air. The series offered hour-long adaptations of classic plays and novels, as well as adaptations of popular motion pictures.

This first episode of the Campbell Playhouse was broadcast 12/9/1938 - just after his legendary Mercury Theater "War of the Worlds" show that terrified the nation.

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