Suspense - The Well-Dressed Corpse

In "The Well-Dressed Corpse," Eve Arden stars as a woman who gets murderous after being jilted.

As the episode opens, Ruth Franklin is being held on a murder charge at the police station. Only six weeks earlier she had been chosen as one of the best- dressed women in America, and that was when all of her problems began...

At the awards banquet, she was seated next to Roy Mason, one of the best-dressed men in America. They hit it off and soon became a fashionable item together. Fashion columnists took note and assumed the two would be getting married. Ruth assumed that, too, but then Roy told her otherwise. He already had a fiance!

Ruth didn't take the news well. Later, she came over to his place for martinis...and pulled out a gun!

"The Well-Dressed Corpse" was written by John Michael Hayes and E. Jack Neuman. Elliott Lewis produced and directed. Eve Arden starred. This episode aired on January 18, 1951.

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Suspense presented this story a second time on October 13, 1957. Margaret Whiting and John Dehner starred. William N. Robson produced and directed.

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