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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

Screen Directors Playhouse · June 23, 1950 · 29 min · 3,350 words

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RCA Victor, world leader in radio, first in recorded music, first in television, proudly present Green directors, playhouse, star Barbara Stanwick, production, the strange love of Martha Ivers, director, Lewis Milestone The Hollywood screen directors present a play on murders, the motion picture drama, the strange love of Martha Ivers, starring Barbara Stanwick in her original role

A murder has many parts. The murderer, the murdered, and those who see the witnesses. It was an accident. An accident. I didn't want to kill her. You hated her, Martha. Yes.

Hated her, Martha. Hated her. I was glad she was dead. The years have washed it away. You had washed nothing away. Your aunt has forgotten. She'll never be forgotten. Nobody knows. Walter knows. Walp was your husband.

And Masterson knows and Masterson is gone. Gone. He ran away. Gone the night of the murder. I was a child. Murder in the hands of a child. Mother, come closer. Yeah? Your wick. Fluffy wick.

Yeah. You tried to run away again. My niece was Sam Masterson. They didn't catch them. They'll never catch him. Each time you run away you'll be brought back. Back to Ibertown back to this house. I'll get away you'll be an I was I'll watch the dirt and grime up You my name is Smith same as my father's was your and I was the same as your mother was

Your father was a nobody a dirty mill hand I have no need for your assistance mr. O'Neill. Oh Oh, but his Martha's tutor. Martha, go upstairs, change your clothes. I hate you. Oh, Mrs. Ivers, if Martha could only have the proper companionship, my son, Walter, he's a good boy, a good influence.

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