What happens
Margaret Elliott, a former film star, watches her belongings sold at auction in Hollywood, and her agent Harry Stone tries to help her find a comeback role. Her ex-husband John Morgan has left her, her daughter Gretchen lives with him, and her finances are gone. After a night of trouble, a mechanic named Jim Johansson posts her bail. He takes her to his house by the water, where she lives quietly for a time and begins to reconsider her life and her career. The episode is part of the Lux Radio Theatre series and aired on April 19, 1954.
Hollywood, California, in the 1950s, including a Hollywood auction house, an apartment, a department store and Jim Johansson's home by a shipyard.
Characters: Margaret Elliott, Harry Stone, Jim Johansson, John Morgan, Gretchen, Peggy, Mrs. Adams, Roy
Listen for: Margaret's first sales job at the department store and the sharp exchanges between Margaret and Harry Stone about her career.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.