What happens
Dr. Michael Toussaint meets Florence, an assistant to the artist Targale, in Chicago and is shaken by their connection. Flashing back, the story follows Michael and his wife Karen, a performer in Paris, whose romance and growing family are strained by a painful misunderstanding. When Karen leaves, Michael raises their daughter Suzette alone, and the two are later reunited under difficult circumstances. This episode from the Screen Guild Theater aired December 16, 1946, starring Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotton, and Sue England, with Elliot Lewis.
Chicago, Paris, and an American home, in the 1930s and 1940s
Characters: Dr. Michael Toussaint, Florence (Karen), Targale, Suzette, Dr. Barnes, Ed, Mac
Listen for: Michael's first meeting with Florence in the Chicago nightclub, and the scene where Suzette learns about her mother.
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.
