In the Name of Love
Description
A corporate executive, Celeste Manning, fabricates a personal life for herself and claims to have an adopted daughter, Maureen, an actress. Caught in her own web of lies, she battles to protect her fantasy, especially when her boss hires a detective to find the truth about Maureen. In the end, Celeste discovers Maureen's hidden drug problems and confronts her own reality.
Celeste Manning, a business executive, makes up a fake personal life and pretends she has an adopted daughter named Maureen who works as an actress. When her lies start to catch up with her, she fights to keep her made-up story alive, particularly after her boss brings in a detective to uncover the real truth about Maureen. Eventually, Celeste finds out that Maureen has secret drug troubles and must face the facts about her own life.
Advertising mongul, Celeste Manning, meets a billionaire industrialist, Roger Carlson, on a flight from Paris and tells him a personal secret: She has a daughter, but it’s only an illusion. The “daughter” is really movie star Maureen Lovell, whom Celeste, who has never found time to get married, has admired since she was a child actress. When Maureen, who has taken to using drugs, disappears, Celeste panics and begs Carlson to help her and Maureen.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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