{
  "title": "CARMILLA",
  "category": "[SHORT-STORY]",
  "article": "“Miss Fletcher will be remembered by Columbia network fans for her delightful whimsy, ‘My\nClient, Curley,’ story of a caterpillar who danced like a cobra whenever anyone played ‘Yes Sir,\nThat’s My Baby.’\n“Earle McGill, author of ‘Radio Directing,’ says the production is a challenge to the art of hiding\nthe real plot until the climax. ‘Carmilla’ McGill says, “is the story of a personality so disarming\nthat the most delicate nuances of character have to be guarded, so that when the awful truth\nbecomes known, the shock will be sudden—and the reaction correspondingly quick. Otherwise\nwe’ll all have insomnia.’”\n[Northern Ireland Drama] “Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic novella Carmilla was published in the\n1872 ghost story collection 'In a Glass Darkly', since when its influence can be traced on\neverything from Bram Stoker’s novel 'Dracula' to Dreyer’s 1920s film 'Vampyr' and Hammer’s\nlurid 1970s film 'The Vampire Lovers'. Le Fanu’s original is far more than a vampire story,\nhowever, offering a love story plausible in its complexity, a subtle psychological study of\nindividuals at the mercy of the unknown, and an elegant chiller all in one.”",
  "origination": "",
  "duration": "",
  "personnel": "",
  "extant_recordings": "“Carmilla” (The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre, July 31, 1975), “Carmilla”\n(Nightfall, 11/20/81).",
  "chronology": "THE COLUMBIA WORKSHOP (WABC, NEW YORK—CBS)\n[Sunday—\nJuly 28, 1940\n“Carmilla”\n[“…‘Columbia Workshop’ audiences are in for the spine-tingling surprise\nof their lives—plus an understandable desire to lock all the doors and\nwindows—when Director Earle McGill presents Lucille Fletcher’s\nmodernization of Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Carmilla’…”]\nSCRIPT: Lucille Fletcher.\nPERSONNEL: Earl McGill (director).\nCAST: Peter Cappell (Tony), Jean Colbert, Maurice Franklin (Reverend\nWitherspoon), William Johnstone (Dodge), Jeanette Nolan (Carmilla), Neal\nO’Malley, Effie Palmer, Joan Tetzel (Helen Dodge)., Gladys Thornton (Mrs.\nWood), Tom Tully.\nEXTANT RECORDING\nUNUSUAL PEOPLE (WEVD, NEW YORK)\n[Tuesday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nMarch 6, 1945\n“Carmilla”\nSCRIPT: Lucille Fletcher.\nPERSONNEL: Jack Curtis (announcer), Edward Ludlum (producer-director).\nCAST: Michael Blair, Harriet Burke, Marion Chancer, Sterling Cheseldine, Helen\nThomas (Carmilla).\nTHE HALL OF FANTASY (WGN, CHICAGO)\n[Monday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nJuly 3, 1950\n“The Tomb of Carmilla”\nHALLOWEEN DRAMA (WFUV, NEW YORK)\n[Thursday—8:00-   PM]\nOctober 31, 1957\n“Carmilla”\n[“…front the Gothic tale by Sheridan Le Fanu about a mysterious girl, a\nmoldering castle on the Rhine and manifestations of ancient evils…”]\nTHE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE (WRVR, NEW YORK—CBS)\n[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]\nJuly 31, 1975\n“Carmilla”\n[“…Nineteen-year-old Laura Stanton, living with her father in an isolated\nAustrian mansion, is delighted when one of the victims of a carriage\naccident, 19-year-old Carmilla, agrees to stay with them. They become\nvery close friends until Laura learns who—and what—Carmilla really\nis…”]\nSCRIPT: Ian Martin.\nPERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-director).\nCAST: Court Benson (Dr. Zulig), Staats Cotsworth (Mr. Stanton), Martha\nGreenhouse (Contessa), Mercedes McCambridge (Laura Stanton), Marian Seldes\n(Carmilla).\nEXTANT RECORDING\nSEARS RADIO THEATER (\n[Wednesday—\nMarch 7, 1979\n“Carmilla”\nSCRIPT: Brainard Duffield.\nPERSONNEL: Elliott Lewis (producer), Fletcher Markle (director), Vincent Price\n(host, narrator).\nCAST: Antoinette Bower, Ann Gibson, Anne Seymour, Olan Soule, et al.\nEXTANT RECORDING\nNIGHTFALL (TORONTO—CBC)\n[Friday—7:30-8:00 PM]\nNovember 20, 1981\n“Carmilla”\n[“…Vampire classic delves into the psychology of friendship between two\ngirls…”]\nSCRIPT: John Douglas, Graham Pomeroy.\nPERSONNEL: Bill Howell (producer).\nCAST: Eve Crawford, Douglas Campbell, Maureen Fitzgerald, Dorothy Ann Haug,\nMartha Henry, Eric House, Douglas Rain.\nEXTANT RECORDING\nAFTERNOON PLAY (RADIO 4, LONDON—BBC)\n[???day—\nJune 5, 2003\n“Carmilla”\nSCRIPT: Don McCamphill.\nPERSONNEL: Lawrence Jackson.\nCAST: Brana Bajic (Carmilla), Kenneth Cranham (General Spielsdorf), Anne-\nMarie Duff (Laura), Celia Imrie (Madame Perrodon), Jacqueline Pearce (The\nDuchess), David Warner (Father).",
  "sources": "“Spine Tingler Booked on Air Sunday Night.” Mason City Globe-Gazette (July 27, 1940).",
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}