What happens
Frankie and Johnny is a 1952 Suspense episode. In New Orleans, Frankie confronts her lover Johnny, a clarinet player who often leaves her to play in a back room and who has been spending time away from her. Frankie suspects he is seeing another woman, a girl named Nellie, and she sets out through the city's bars and streets searching for him. Miss Willie, a woman who watches the street, tells her Johnny has been seen with Nellie. Frankie hears that they went out together, and she goes looking for them, insisting she has grown tired of being wronged. The Suspense series aired on CBS, and the original air date of this episode was May 5, 1952, with Dinah Shore starring.
New Orleans, in the early twentieth century, in the city's clubs, bars and streets.
Characters: Frankie, Johnny, Miss Willie, Nellie, Jelly Cake, Miss Willie
Listen for: Frankie's growing suspicion and anger as she tracks Johnny through the nightclubs and streets of New Orleans.
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.