Radio Mystery Theater The Venus D'Ille 0083

Original Airdate: April 30, 1974

Episode 0083 "The Venus D'Ille"

Original Story by Prosper Merimee, Adapted by Sam Dann Directed by Himan Brown, Host: E.G. Marshall

A down on his luck gambler marries for money. However, when he carelessly places the ring on a statue, he finds himself betrothed to a goddess.

The Romans called her Venus. The Greeks knew her as Aphrodite. To other ancient peoples she was Ishtar, Isis, and Astarte. But whatever the name, she was always the same, the mysterious, passionate, voluptuous goddess of love, and sometimes of death.

Who was it that said, some men are born wise, others are more fortunate, they're born handsome? We commend to your attention the young Vicomte Claude Louis de Charbert. At 38, Who can count the hearts he has already broken? And who can even guess at the vast amount of golden francs he has already lost at such aristocratic pastimes as Baccarat, Vingt-et-un, Chemin-de-Faire?

But this is of small importance to our handsome hero. He has long ago learned that his true fortune is in his face. And so, On this evening, this intoxicatingly beautiful evening, In the spring of the year 1908, we find our Claude Louis in a luxurious casino on the coast of southern France.

Starring: Dan Ocko, Evie Juster, Robert Dryden, Joan Lovejoy, Norman Rose