It was dramatized as a half-hour radio play on the January 20, 1947, starring Vincent Price and Teresa Wright. But when he became ill, pre-production was delayed, and Peck dropped out.ĭragonwyck was adapted as an hour-long radio play on the Octobroadcast of Lux Radio Theater, starring Vincent Price and Gene Tierney. Gregory Peck was the first choice for Nicholas Van Ryn when Ernst Lubitsch was to direct. As they part, Turner repeats the words the patroon Nicholas van Rijn spoke when first wooing Miranda: Can he see her again? I suppose so, says Miranda. Miranda returns accompanied by Turner to her family in Greenwich. Miranda learns that Nicholas and his wife Johanna are estranged from each other and from their daughter, and that the Van Ryn bloodline is cursed as only they can hear the harpsichord played by the ghost of Nicholas’s great-grandmother Azilde.
Miranda convinces her parents to let her go to Nicholas’s estate of Dragonwyck manor as companion to his young daughter Katrine (Connie Marshall). Miranda gets her chance when mother receives letter from distant cousin Nicholas Van Ryn (Vincent Price), a wealthy patroon in Hudson. Raised in 1844 Greenwich, Connecticut by her strict religious parents, Ephraim (Walter Huston) and Abigail (Anne Revere), Miranda Wells (Gene Tierney) is a farm girl who daydreams of a more romantic and luxurious life. The film stars Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, and Vincent Price. The music score was by Alfred Newman, and the cinematography by Arthur C. P-27 in this important series, a historical novel, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI.
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