What happens
At a Park Avenue party, socialite Hilda Rutherford meets Alan Baker, a brash young architect who has crashed her coming-out celebration. Their attraction grows despite her initial resistance, and the pair marry and start a family. Her longtime friend Paul Ferguson remains close to her during the years that follow. This Screen Guild Theater broadcast presents the drama Can We Forget, starring Betty Davis, Robert Montgomery, Basil Rathbone and Louise Beavers. The transcript covers the first part of the play, which follows Hilda's growing bond with Alan and the early years of their marriage.
A Park Avenue hotel party in New York, followed by the Baker household in later years.
Characters: Hilda Rutherford, Alan Baker, Paul Ferguson, Camille, Carol
Listen for: Alan's bold, teasing first conversation with Hilda at her party, and the lines about her being unable to forget him.
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.