Suspense · January 28, 1962 · 25 min · 3,189 words
The transcript of “Please Believe Me”, an episode of Suspense first broadcast January 28, 1962. 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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And now, a tale well calculated to keep you in, spent. Listen now to Please Believe Me, starring Joan Lorring and Robert Redick, and written a specially for suspense by Ben Kagan. There it is.
Oh. Your new home, Mrs. Cooper. Furnished by Louis I. That's when he comes around for the rent. Oh, Tony. Oh Tony, it's charming. No, bet you say that to all your new husbands. No, I mean Tony, it's so casual.
Bohemian. Yes, good use of cleaning. Oh, silly, I didn't mean that. Not anywhere you'll find it all very compact. Living room, bedroom, kitchen. It's exactly as I imagined it would be. Easily, paints and brushes.
Large window. Oh Tony, I still can't believe it's true. We just think if I hadn't gone to that exhibit three weeks ago and if it hadn't rained that afternoon we would never have met. Probably not.
Three weeks? I've known you only three weeks darling. Does it seem possible that three weeks ago we were total strangers? Well, it's this new atomic age, my jet propulsion. In three weeks you can go around the world twice and make a million dollars.
That's what I tried to tell the family. But oh, you know how families are, especially if they happen to have been born and bred in New England. They hate me, don't they? Oh. They didn't give me a terrible mistake.
Of course they don't. They... Well, they only said we should have waited, that I should have found out more about you, but oh, Tony, they'll come around. Tailing? When? In time. I promise, Tony. They're really very nice and...
Yes, you're on the move for excavating. That's not fair. They have a point of view as well, Tony. Oh, now I'm sorry, darling. I didn't mean that. Please believe me. I realize what a shock it must have been when you told me when marrying a struggling artist without a family tree.
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