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Violet Lucille Fletcher (March 28, 1912 – August 31, 2000) was an American screenwriter of film, radio and television. Her credits include The Hitch-Hiker, an original radio play written for Orson Welles and adapted for a notable episode of The Twilight Zone television series.
Sep 24, 2021 · 4 min read. Sorry, Not Sorry: The Career of Mystery Writer Lucille Fletcher. Updated: Feb 3, 2022. By John C. Alsedek: Lucille Fletcher. As a kid, I was of course very familiar with The Twilight Zone episode "The Hitch-Hiker," which was easily one of the spookiest shows of the whole series.
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She was 88 and lived in Oxford, Md. Besides her radio plays, Miss Fletcher was the author of novels, stage plays and screenplays, but she was best known for ''Sorry, Wrong Number,'' a 22-minute...
Aug 31, 2000 · Lucille Fletcher is best known for her suspense classic Sorry, Wrong Number, originally a radio play, later a novel, TV play and motion picture. She has written extensively for both screen and television, and is the author of several successful mystery novels, including Blindfold , . . .
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Sep 5, 2000 · Sept. 5, 2000 12 AM PT. From Times Staff and Wire Reports. Lucille Fletcher, who wrote the 1940s radio suspense drama “Sorry, Wrong Number” and expanded the script into a motion picture...
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."
Sorry, Wrong Number is a 1948 American thriller and film noir directed by Anatole Litvak, [2] from a screenplay by Lucille Fletcher, based on her 1943 radio play of the same name. The film stars Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster. It follows a bedridden woman who overhears the plot of murder while on the telephone.
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