 Personal notice dangers my stock and trade if the job's too tough for you to handle you got a job for me George Valentine write full details Greetings as always mystery lover welcome to another let George do an adventure I'm sure all of us at one time or another have wanted to sneak backstage and see for ourselves Just what goes on behind the scenes of show business Some of you may have been successful But for those of you who are not I'm gonna give you the insight on how a star should never act The rest of you can listen if you want to Dear mr. Valentine There are certain people in the world who aren't like other people They live in a place built of quicksilver and we don't always understand the secrets of their hearts and minds They're in a world of their own, but our world benefits because they are there That's the kind of a person I work for. I've been her secretary for the past six years She can't even remember my last name She's a combination of church music and just plain cat Mr.. Valentine. I'm writing because she needs your help. She's being threatened or blackmailed or something No, I'm sure she could be murdered before she bothered a writer letter herself She's not well. She works too hard and if she slaps your face don't quit don't slap back Because underneath she's nothing but a very small child and for some reason very very frightened Also, as I'm sure you'll agree Miss Flora steward is the greatest actress in the world Valentine Valentine I never heard of you. What have you done lately? Mr.. It's secretary. He said we should come here to our home. Never mind never mind here Sonny grab that light plug light plug Don't you know what a light plug is? Oh here. I'll do it ask the dark bear for a pill It'll brighten you up real sharp dialogue. Why didn't you say plug in the phonograph? Wouldn't you like a chair young lady? Shut up. Shut up. Listen The gentle way All right, listen Him that gives that hurt you. I guess Become the throne of monarch better than I said shut up This makes me cry you understand Yeah, so what do you do? I'm crying so yattata yattata yattata if you've got no appreciation shut up The mercy is not trained It drops us as the gentle rain from heaven Excuse me Somebody's got to answer that thing Hello, maybe a call for my out for the love of horses with your own Please do it New York. She don't know anybody in New York hang up. They got no appreciation anyway Wait a minute wait a minute How dare you flora baby Jake you shut up. Give me that telephone Yeah, here. I'm a steward. Yes. Hello Operator, I'm so sorry Will you please tell your party in New York than Miss Flora Stewart caught cold in a Turkish bath? There's a dear girl. Just say that she's thrown in the towel until Christmas Well, this looks like the birth of a nation Miss Stewart, my name is never mind doctor. What are you doing here? Get out now flora for heaven's sake? We haven't seen each other since your big tour and absence makes you so much fond of now go quack at somebody else I'm busy, but you're not well either. I noticed last night when we met on the street I'm sorry my dear, but your way past a checkup and now now don't push I'm fine. I'm perfect. There's nothing wrong at all with you're worried upset you look awful Maybe you can talk to your wife like that, but not to me go on darling go on go on You know that mortician's understudy has the nerve to think I should give up the stage me It's like asking Grant to give up his tomb Jake Jake Where is he? Where'd he go? If you mean that guy who cries and whose face you slapped I I don't think he liked it He walked into the other room. What is it a bar? You dear oh Excuse me, I'm Claire Brooke. Mr. Valentine and I work together. Oh Well, what are you looking so serious for eat drink and be merry I Thought I might go to work on him myself. That's all Darling, don't worry You're listening to let George do it our adventure will continue in just a moment now back to let George do it and George Valentine I'll slow down with you. I'm trying to get it straight. You've been threatened blackmailed your secretary said Yes, a very husky voice quite a cloak and dagger. He's phoned every night for three nights running You'll see for yourself. Maybe later on any connection between those calls the one you just had from New York The one you wouldn't answer what oh, no No, that's different. I started my tour six months ago in New York. That was just somebody I met there This other voices from town I'm sure and only a man could open the window like that. Don't you think do what well to break the records records Please missed your start at the beginning or some of the records. I've made of my performances on stage a master records They're not commercial just original the only ones and three nights ago Someone broke in the window to my study ransacked things and took one out and broke it all over the rug. Go on. Well, oh Blue Swan was the first one. That's a play five years ago. It only lasted a couple of weeks Then it was Alice Adams. I just tried that for the first time on tour and then last night It was my recording that you mean every night a different record is broken and nothing else is touched No, and then I get a phone call and the voice says Unless you leave $10,000 tonight in the study, I'll break every record you have and I'll tell everybody what I know about Well Tell what he knows about what? Well, you don't think I'm gonna tell you Really darling. I don't know you that well yet Don't for the lover Lady, can't you stop acting for once, but you're here to catch him. You're not here to write my biography Do so for my money you can either tell it Don't yell at me You're here now. You'll help. I'm not the detective. I'm just so frightened. I can't think straight You can look around you'll find some clues lady. You're gonna stick around and give them to me. Oh, I've got such a headache I can't even see you. It's my house. I'll do what I like I want to lie down and forget you all of it. Leave me alone It's not a case when you don't know what it is Now let's take a look at the study where those records are kept Maybe that's how we clear the air books. He'd be a little crazy ourselves There must be another door around through the sun Oh, hello, Mr. Valentine. I didn't realize I left the catch on are you the secretary who wrote us Betty Robinson? Just doing some work in here. Do you Smoke cigars while you work what oh I guess miss Stewart wanted you to see the records that were broken. Yeah, yeah sure stuff this praller breaks She saved all the pieces put them in an envelope. I thought you might get fingerprints or something I doubt it those records look more pulverized than stepped on This the cabinet they were taken out of. Oh, yes. Yes right there See how often do you water those in is up there? What oh out the window? There's a gardener every day the beds are pretty Only no marks on the rug. I don't understand. Well, this is a window is Mysterious man who comes in from the outside easy enough to force all right Yes, it's been found open or it was this morning only he makes no tracks on the rug and out there He'd have to stand in the wet flower bed and the window could be left open from the inside so that it would only look like Oh, oh, no if you think there's anyone inside this house I don't think anything yet. Mr. Robinson accepted. Maybe you could use some Kleenex What? Here honey, not your lipstick your mascara You've been crying haven't you? No You're here just to do something for miss Stewart Okay, and you are here to say nothing. I've been her secretary for six years She's the most wonderful person in the world. I dragged that in because you've been packing a suitcase yet Yes, I'm leaving for a little vacation It has absolutely nothing to do with why you're here You can take care of her now They guy told you I want to be left alone miss Brock's I have a job so I'm doing it. Mr. Stewart. I'm asking who smokes cigars What nice fancy cigars from the smell of it's Jake. Isn't it that agent of yours? No, it's my husband Jake's never smoked in his life. Oh your husband. I'd like to meet him. Oh, he's around someplace a big shaggy poodle who adores me Ah How does he get along with your secretary? Darling, have you seen her nothing but a little bacteria trails me around with such a worshipping look Why? I'm so tired. I don't think very strict. I'm not gonna bother you with why anything miss Stewart Oh, but I'm scared someone threatened me. I hired you to come. We're only trying to understand your household This is so simple. It's blackmail sure sure somebody from the outside the people in this house have nothing to do with anything They love me, but it must be a little hard living with a person who's been as famous as you have already a legend being married to you You're working for you already a legend Ha Course I'm peculiar and selfish There's nothing in the world as important as my work and I've been working so hard. I've done nothing Nothing but work every minute for the last six months. It was my own tour. I even organized and backed it myself What's the matter that stuff in your lap, what were you doing when we came in? Cleaning a gun Here you see what the name of sister. Give me that thing. Oh, no, you don't darling Maybe it's got a bullet in it How do you know look lady? Valentine. I'm frightened. I Want to have a gun not the way you handle it sister. No, come on Also, I'm too much for you am I my blackmail is too much for you. So you're afraid of my case. Well, baby, you can just Okay, okay lady, okay now nobody's hurt you still have your little toy, of course I have darling I Still have everything Call me a legend will you? Baby, you better be careful the next time this little toy will fit right in your eye You're listening to let George do it our adventure will continue in just a moment back to George Valentine The greatest actress in the world Laura Stewart, but she's scared to death of a mysterious stranger a blackmailer Who has been breaking the master records of her famous performances and threatens to continue until she pays him $10,000 Well, if your name is George Valentine, you're convinced that there's a lot going on in this Stewart's strange household besides just blackmail Particularly when she pulls a gun on you Look at the great detective. Okay. Okay, lady. So you win round one round one throw in the ammonia folks Oh, go on get out of here. They're not big enough to help me All you can do is try to pad your part with guesses about things that don't matter Well, darling Tata, I'll turn it off. You say maybe I don't slap back, but I got bad news for you. I'm staying Thank you, Mr. Valentine and It's not true what you think People do love me like I've loved them. Oh sure. Sure lady. I love you too. Don't you listen to the critics I think you're still the greatest actress in the world You act all the time Of cobwebs isn't it whole house full of God look, mr. Stewart. I wanted to meet you because you're Oh, listen to me laughing as they're over a joke by this time. I'm Kenneth. Yes, but Kenneth McLaughlin Yeah, have a drink. Oh, thanks. Do you expect her to take my name? Well, they're the hero of Aphrodite's husband Sarah Bernhardt's Go on drink this stuff. It's important how much of it do you drink enough to remember the name McLaughlin? Don't think anything of that been married 18 years, and I adore Everybody does can't help them sure sure keep telling it to yourself What do I say now? I beg your pardon? No, you tell me what you do for a living Foolish boy, okay, so she's the moneymaker she give you an allowance. No No, I can't be insulted. I'll stop smiling. I'll be goaded into saying anything you ask about my wife, mr. Valentine, what's there to say? She's been on tour for six months. I'm Crazy idea of doing every part. She's ever done and for good measure of the one she's left out Galloping Arjanoo. I've barely seen her. Why are you here today? I don't know that. Why won't she see me today? Why anything? Okay Have a drink. That's right. Tell me how it is to be tied to the great lady How she never thinks of you the way Betty does What you know Betty nice little secretary who says she loves the great actress too only she's leaving Don't tell me you didn't know she was going not after that little scene You must have had in the study when you ducked out just before we came in. I'll get out of my way. She's gone I tell you You hate your wife. Don't you shut up you fool. He lives for herself and her career and nobody else And all the time right under her nose you and her secretary and I'm warning you Oh now what All right, what is it buddy? I was just on my way out. I was walking through here. Yeah, well, you're not leaving now Hey, let me see it was all in pieces on the rug the same place as the others that person's been here again And the window drape shoved aside again only this time the windows closed. Yeah, you heard me So you're not leaving nobody's leaving mr. Valentine matches in the frame the last time I was in here The window can't be opened but somebody tried awful hard here You see hand prints all over the top of the glass Yeah, sure, of course. I thought so before now. I know it So we're going to find out whose prints those are which one of the people inside this house has been trying to frighten Flora Stewart at a $10,000 You ever swindled blood out of a turn of Valentine. I'm business manager to a bunch of back taxes That's all and that Betty if she had half a brain would have quit long ago She hasn't been paid in four months. Well, it up with your check Okay, this star client of mine is flat broke Laura Stewart. Oh now wait a minute She used to make a fortune and that tour financing herself and all the parts she wanted to do playing the city She thought liked her whether the houses were good or not promoting herself with producers. I tell you friend It's cleaned out everything. She had left a great business manager. You must be Still don't understand Yeah But it's there can't you hear it in that old record She makes me cry Sure, I love her. She tears people apart. She's she's often that world of her own She can't help it. I think she gives two pins for what happens to her Well, am I supposed to be a watchdog forever? I can't order her around nobody can nobody ever could Why don't you get smart and go home? Brooks scene I'm just beginning to realize what this is all about We do George that was a shot Who George no It's flour Dead Brooks scene. She's dead. Oh Brother see it all backwards until it's too late get a client She can't understand and then let her be killed must have been her own gun that was used It's gone. She was scared to death. She really was frightened Brooks. He's sick and upset George. Stop it Wanted protection. She would have said You hear that yeah, yeah, I hear it shake car starting a car starting get out of the way Well, thanks. You didn't run over me. All right, Betty get out. Come on. Come on. I know you have miss Stewart Don't touch me. I killed her Betty. Yes. I killed her. So now what are you gonna do Betty? Suppose you just take it easy let him go and I killed her They loved her and hated her for 18 years and I killed her. I loved it You know, I'm getting a little sick of all the emotions being spilled in this house Just because you lived with an actress doesn't mean you have to I killed her. Don't you want to stand? You come one step closer. I'll kill myself Yeah Yeah, look who's coming Betty the boyfriend himself. It's all the excitement. I was on the sleeve Betty says she killed your wife What? Flora, yeah, that's right Little Betty here managed to wrestle her gun away. Can you imagine and then with one shot she all right sister give me that gun That's better You don't have to pretend you don't have to cover for him Betty Betty what in heaven hold it All right. Now Jake tell me something if Flora carry life insurance, huh? Yes Yes, it's a matter of fact quite a bit Took it out just recently. It was the only way I could get it to save Why because after we heard the shot Betty it took us a little time to find out where it came from But you were upstairs already What did you do run in there see the body see a gun and think Kenneth had actually killed it With me in the house and Jake Didn't you notice the cotton wadding the cleaning fluid the gun oil? That's right. Yeah If I found a setup like that, I'd be more inclined to think her death was an accident All right now come on inside. We're going to phone back to New York Okay, thanks operator keep on trying to locate that party in New York, will you? All right, I know it's awful sudden. I know you all loved her a lot no matter how you talk She really tore people apart didn't she but an accident right in the middle of all that blackmail business. Oh George No, it's too convenient. Yes, Valentina if you don't explain just guessing Jake adding two and two in The first place that blackmail thing she put that up herself. Well, she must have Look at the records that were so carefully broken Alice Adams the part of an adolescent girl just recorded this year on tour She might have been able to play that part well 30 years ago And then blue swan a flop that lasted two weeks and in this last one a turkey you said don't you see all her recent performances? All her bad performances. She broke the records herself to get rid of But why would she call you well? She wanted me here because it was all phony was all an act and she made a big point of having me see her cleaning a gun handling It clumsily she wanted us for witnesses wanted us to testify. She died accidentally. That's right, Bruxy And I don't think I need to kick myself. She would have done it anyway Yeah, the big selfish actress so self-centered But she knew she wrecked lives and the rest of it wasn't an act She was frightened. All right, but she had to keep on being a star The doctor said she'd have to give up the stage. It was her whole life. She had to keep working feeble flat gesture wasn't it? But maybe she figured it was the least she could do for all of you Yeah, that's right Make a death look like it was an accident So the insurance companies wouldn't refuse to pay off On suicide. Oh She went on tour to play all the parts She used to like burning the candle at both ends for the last big try financing herself the great actress But I noticed her biggest successes were in the past. She still was great, Sonny. You sure about that That's my call. Hello. Hello, miss Stewart there. Who is this place? I know all about miss Stewart at least I think I do Well, tell her it's James Sharon James Sharon the producer give me that hold a check Wait a minute. How about you taking a message? Maybe it'll be easier that way Nothing is easy friend, but go ahead. Well, look He's been haunting me for years to put in something big, but I can't anymore I wrote her I could get her a small part and would phone her for an answer For a slap in the face. She knows the truth as well as I do. What does she want to make me suffer for? I love her. Why don't you say it straight mr. Sharon? Candles all burned out my friend the anginews finished. She's through Back to the conclusion of our let George do an adventure in just a moment She had to quit the stage Maybe she could have even done that Stage you'd already put her Didn't have any life outside. That's right. She's been slipping for years and she must have known it to That last disaster store was a payoff. They all knew it Never admit it anyone particularly Jake in there wagon hitch to a burned-out star I Haven't done for Betty interfering the accidental death stunt might have gone through that insurance idea to help the people She'd hurt clumsy as it was might have worked. George. It doesn't make any difference. They don't care about the money Don't blame yourself for having to expose Jake still in there beating She really had these people tired of a nuts her heart As long as better How do you explain a woman like her? Maybe you don't You have just heard and hope to die another let George do an adventure Robert Bailey was starred as George Valentine with Virginia Greg is Bruxy David Victor and Jackson Gillis wrote the story with music by Eddie Dunsteader Now this is yours truly inviting you to another visit with Valentine when you will again hear what happens When you let George do it