The Woman in the House

Ann Richards suffers from a type of agoraphobia which this episode of John Nesbitt's THE PASSING PARADE calls 'anthropophobia'. A quarrel with her fiance, a letter announcing his death, and for the next forty years, this big-eyed beauty remained in her house, filled with guilt and the fear of mockery of others.

Nesbitt was the writer-producer-narrator of this MGM series for a dozen years, from 1937 through 1949. In that period he discussed, and the actors portrayed mostly through dumb show, little tales of the ordinary and the macabre, nostalgia and humor.... and three or four times, Nostradanus, This one seems almost unique in that we hear actors' voices: her dead lover, and the woman come on a sympathy call, whose imagined voices on the porch she hears as mockery. The series was derived from Nesbitt's radio feature of the same name. It ran during the same period.