Shadow of A Doubt - Radio Adaptions and Remake

Radio Adaptions and Remake

The film was adapted for Cecil B. DeMille's Lux Radio Theater aired on January 3, 1944 with its original leading actress and William Powell as Uncle Charlie. (Patrick McGilligan said Hitchcock had originally wanted Powell to play Uncle Charlie, but MGM refused to lend the actor for the film.) In 1950, Shadow of a Doubt was featured as a radio-play on Screen Directors Playhouse. It starred Cary Grant as Uncle Charlie and Betsy Drake as the younger Charlie. It was also adapted to the Ford Theater (February 18, 1949). Joseph Cotten reprised the role on radio in The Screen Guild Theater adaptations of May 24, 1943 and June 21, 1948 and again in the Academy Award Theatre production of Shadow of a Doubt which aired Sept. 11, 1946.

The film was remade as Step Down to Terror (1958).