In 1943, Suspense gave silent-screen legend Lillian Gish a voice in Marry for Murder. Thirty-two years later, CBS Radio Mystery Theater broadcast an entirely different mystery with exactly the same title.
Coincidence? Homage? Or simply proof that some suspicions never grow old?
In this Listen with Gilbert Deep Dive, we put the two broadcasts side by side—from the remarkable paradox of a silent-film icon performing in radio’s invisible theater to the revival of dramatic radio under Himan Brown. Along the way, we consider a distinctly Chestertonian question: we can follow the money, examine the evidence, and investigate a person’s past—but can we ever completely know another human heart?
Two eras of CBS radio. Two marriages shadowed by suspicion. One title.
Marry for Murder.
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