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Stand-In

Suspense · June 12, 1947 · 26 min · 4,071 words

The transcript of “Stand-In”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast June 12, 1947. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Suspense plays Suspense free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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She's here, Diana. Get WSC. Tell him, will you? And Jensen, yeah, take on those 40 Western Union boys It was supposed to come out and sing, here comes the bride. Lady Goodset, and everybody take it easy now.

Keep calm. What do you want to do? Give her a nervous breakdown. Right home again. I was always the way with Madame. A grand entrant for her and all her confusion for everybody else. She was rotten and spoiled.

But what could you do? On the screen, she looked like an angel. And she was the top box office door of the biggest studio in Hollywood. Everybody heard the story by now. Of course, that is the nine day wonders version that the newspapers carried.

But there are only two people in the world who know the real story. And I'm one of them. You see, I was her stand-in. This particular little taper all began just before her latest picture was supposed to go in front of the camera.

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