The Queen of Darkness
Description
A failed actress gets a job pretending to be the queen of a faraway nation. She questions whether this opportunity will happen just once.
A washed out actress is hired to masquerade as the queen of a remote country. She wonders if this is a one shot deal.
Destitute actress Josephine Dennison is offered $25,000 by the Grand Duke of Dalhran to portray the queen. Despite her government's protests, she becomes the first American to enter the country in 50 years. When a lady-in-waiting translates her rehearsal lines, Josephine realizes her queenly role has dangerous political implications.
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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