What happens
Sam Doddsworth and his wife Fran are separating after twenty years of marriage while touring Europe. Fran has grown restless with their life in Zenith, Michigan, and wants her freedom to marry a younger Austrian baron, Kurt Bonaver. Sam tries desperately to save their marriage, but Fran insists on the divorce and remains in Vienna. This Screen Guild Theater adaptation of the 1943 film Doddsworth was broadcast on February 1, 1943, starring Walter Houston, Betty Davis and Nan Sunderland. The episode follows the couple's strained conversations, their travels across Europe, and the complications surrounding Fran's romance.
Europe in the 1920s, including Paris, Vienna and Naples, and a transatlantic steamer approaching England
Characters: Sam Doddsworth, Fran Doddsworth, Edith Courtwright, Kurt Bonaver, Arnold Iselin
Listen for: Sam's attempts to hold the marriage together while Fran insists on her freedom, and his growing friendship with Edith Courtwright
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.