What happens
Bart Kendrick, a New York book publisher, wants to divorce his wife Diana so he can marry Johnny Jones, a Viennese refugee facing deportation. Johnny is in danger of being sent back to Europe, and she proposes a marriage of convenience to an American citizen to keep her in the country. Bill Smith, a struggling writer, agrees to marry her for money and a short-term arrangement. The episode is from the Screen Guild Theater series, first broadcast on July 1, 1946, and stars Henry Fonda, Ilona Massey and Leon Ames. Bill's unfinished novel draws the attention of Bart and Diana Kendrick, and the pair's situation becomes more complicated.
New York City, mid-1940s, including Johnny's and Bill's apartments and the Kendrick publishing office.
Characters: Johnny Jones, Bill Smith, Bart Kendrick, Diana Kendrick, Inspector
Listen for: Bill's emotional reaction when Johnny reveals her plan, and the tense confrontation in the Kendrick office over the novel's ending.
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.