Screen Directors Playhouse
Hired Wife
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Screen Directors Playhouse brings Hollywood filmmaking to radio, with celebrated film directors presenting stories adapted for the air. Each broadcast offers a self-contained drama, using sound and performance to evoke the atmosphere of a motion picture without its images.
The program draws on a range of film genres and storytelling styles, with directors introducing or guiding adaptations of screen material. Its radio cast and sound effects carry the action, while the director’s presence connects the broadcast to the craft of filmmaking. This episode is titled Hired Wife.
The result is a blend of Hollywood prestige and intimate radio drama: a chance to hear familiar cinematic storytelling reshaped for listening, where dialogue, music, and sound create the scene in the imagination.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.