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    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number"
    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number"
    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number"
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    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number"

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    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 12, 2016
    ISBN9781535833851
    A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number"

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      A Study Guide for Lucille Fletcher's "Sorry, Wrong Number" - Gale

      09

      Sorry, Wrong Number

      Lucille Fletcher

      1943

      Introduction

      Lucille Fletcher's drama Sorry, Wrong Number was first performed as a radio play in 1943. In the preface to the published version, Fletcher writes, This play was originally designed as an experiment in sound and not just as a murder story. The voices on the telephone were to be the play's main focus. However, when her play was performed, the playwright realized that the drama had even more potential. The drama, in the hands of her actress, took on the quality of a character study—a look into the mind of a desperate and helpless woman. As it was performed, the drama became a thriller, which, the dramatist writes, was much more than she had originally intended.

      According to Lawrence Van Gelder, writing Fletcher's obituary for the New York Times, the playwright transfixed a national audience with her radio drama. The drama was so popular, according to Van Gelder, that it was broadcast nationally seven times from 1943 to 1948 and was ultimately translated into 15 languages. Later Fletcher adapted the radio play to a film script. Barbara Stanwyck, who portrayed the protagonist, earned an Academy Award nomination for her performance. The play also won the 1960 Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for best radio play, was remade for cable television in 1989, and inspired an opera by Jack Beeson in 1996. Sorry, Wrong Number is considered by many critics to be, if not her best, at least the most popular of Fletcher's works.

      Author Biography

      Fletcher was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 28, 1912. She later attended Vassar College and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1933. Shortly afterward, she worked at the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), typing up radio plays, managing the music library, and writing publicity. She became convinced during this time that she could write radio dramas at least as good as the plays she was typing.

      Fletcher is best known for the thrillers she would go on to write for radio. Her most notable play is Sorry, Wrong Number, which first aired in 1943. She later adapted the radio play into a screenplay, which was produced in 1948. Her 1946 drama Hitch-Hiker is often considered her second most

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