Four Star Playhouse - Season 3 - Episode 37 - Frightened Woman | David Niven, Dick Powell

Carol buys a book at a quaint bookstore but forgot to take it with her. The next day, the store has disappeared. Her husband and a therapist think she's imagining it, but Carol encounters the saleswoman who sold her the book on the street.
Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956. Four Star Playhouse was owned by Four Star International. Its episodes ranged anywhere from surreal mysteries, such as "The Man on the Train", to light comedies, such as "The Lost Silk Hat". The original premise was that Charles Boyer, Ida Lupino, David Niven, and Dick Powell would take turns starring in episodes. However, several other performers took the lead from time to time, including Ronald Colman and Joan Fontaine.
Directed by Roy Kellino, Robert Florey
Starring David Niven, Dick Powell, Charles Boyer
Cast
David Niven as Adams
Dick Powell as Willie Dante
Charles Boyer as Paul
Ida Lupino as Ellen
Herb Vigran as Monte
Ray Walker as Conversing official at funeral
Regis Toomey as Lt. Manny Waldo
Ralph Moody as Conductor
Richard Hale as Judge
Robert Bice as Al Newsome

[@BAM-jc7uy]

wonderful twist LOL👍 ....had us assuming something nefarious about the husband trying to drive his wife insane...was also a promo for seeing a mental health doctor.

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on June 23, 1955.

[@katiezee2]

This seems like a story the Twilight Zone would have done

[@miapdx503]

The cast in the box above is not the cast in this story. We have Merle Oberon, Beaver Cleaver's dad and Peter Gunn...😏

[@Fred-mp1vf]

That still doesn't explain why the book store was closed up when she went back.

[@joyceday115]

It wasn't at the same location. She thought it was the Pelican Bookstore when she saw the woman but it wasn't the same store.

[@pattih7]

Different store, brought back memory.

[@nedludd7622]

Disappointing.

[@alpha-omega2362]

I know, I wanted it to be the husband conspiring with the others, "gaslighting" her so he could run away with the slut he was "working late" with "at the club"... of well,,