A couple of weeks ago, we had Part 1 of this series on the Belloc siblings, a sister and a brother who were both writers. You can find the first post in this series RIGHT HERE . And t his is a good time to mention that I was able to grab some of today's YouTube links from the excellent website Brenton On Film . Okay, so the Belloc sister, Marie Belloc Lowndes, wrote under her married name, and she gained fame when her book The Lodger became a movie in the earliest days of cinema. While the Hitchcock film is an amazing adaptation of Lowndes' work, there have been a number of other versions of the book. Just to start with, it's been made into an opera! You can find that HERE . In the 1940s there were lots of suspense-themed radio programs, so it's not surprising that Marie Belloc Lowndes' chilling tale went out over the radio airwaves. One of the most popular radio suspense programs was called -- well, "Suspense." There were two versions of "The L...
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