Beloved Stranger

"**Beloved Stranger**"
"Beloved Stranger"
Goodyear Playhouse episode
Episode no.	Season 4; Episode 14
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	April 10, 1955

"Beloved Stranger" is a 1955 American television play, which aired as an episode of the Goodyear Playhouse.^[1]

The Independent thought the plot was clearly inspried by A Letter to Three Wives but felt "the story was suspenseful and the acting and directing was superior almost anything seen in recent weeks."^[2]

Premise

A ships' captain, Joe Saxon, has left his belongings to a "beloved stranger" who could be one of three women: his ex-wife Bambi, actor Magda or English girl Laura.

Cast

Hugh Reilly as Joe Saxon
John Alexander as Charlie Wickes
Elaine Stritch
Sally Gracie as Bambi Saxon
Carol Veazie as Mother Barker
Will West as Possum Barker
Ed Walsh as Matt Clune
Constance Ford as Magda Owens
Margaret Hamilton as Letty
Maureen Hurley as Laura Maitland
Cynthia Latham as Miss Teasdale

References

^ "Tangled loves in strange will". The Wichita Eagle. 10 April 1955. p. 98.
^ "Clickin on the channels". The Independent. 13 April 1955. p. 22.

External links

"Beloved Stranger" at IMDb

[1] "Tangled loves in strange will". The Wichita Eagle. 10 April 1955. p. 98.

[2] "Clickin on the channels". The Independent. 13 April 1955. p. 22.

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v t e Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels	Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) Some Doves and Pythons (1966) Edens Lost (1969) The Man Who Got Away (1972) Going (1975) Water Under the Bridge (1977) Signs of Life (1981) About Tilly Beamis (1984) Waiting for Childhood (1987) Fairyland (1990) Radio Days (1993)
Plays	The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937) Interval (1939) The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940) Goodbye to the Music (1942) Your Obedient Servant (1943) The Invisible Circus (1946) Wicked Is the Vine (1948) Rusty Bugles (1948) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
TV scripts	Wicked Is the Vine (1949) The Crater (1949) Pengallen's Bell (1949) Of Human Bondage (1949) Jane Eyre (1949) The Willow Cabin (1950) The Passionate Pilgrim (1950) The Shadow of a Man (1950) Little Women (1950) The Rose Garden (1951) The Devil in Velvet (1952) The Thin Air (1952) Dusty Portrait (1952) Miss Hargreaves (1952) We Were Children (1952) Elegy (1953) Wish on the Moon (1953) Before I Wake (1953) The Shadow of a Man (1953) The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Moment of Panic (1954) Friday the 13th (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Run Girl Run (1954) The Women (1955) Beloved Stranger (1955) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Peter Pan (1955) Daisy, Daisy (1955) You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) Keyhole (1956) Company Manners (1956) Peter Pan (1956) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) Whereabouts Unknown (1957) Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957) Babe in the Woods (1957) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Winslow Boy (1958) We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958) The Laughing Willow (1958) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US) Peter Pan (1960) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust) The Prisoner of Zenda (1961) Notorious (1961) Spellbound (1962)
Adaptations	Rusty Bugles (1965) Water Under the Bridge (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
Radio	Crazy Family (1939) Tradesman's Entrance (1941) Jezebel's Daughter (1941) Grand City (1942) Girl of the Ballet (1942) The Man in the Dark (1944) The Army Hour (1944) Lily Parker (1947) Scarlet Rhapsody (1947) Wicked Is the Vine (1947) Ride a Cock Horse (1948) The Crater (1948) The Rose Garden (1950) Dusty Portrait (1953) The Thin Air (1954) We Were Children (1954) Friday the 13th (1955)