Mary Noble, Backstage Wife
Regina and Her Cousin Conspire
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Mary Noble, Backstage Wife is a daytime radio drama centered on Mary Noble, an actress navigating the demands of marriage and life in the theater. Her husband, Larry Noble, is a successful Broadway actor, and the series follows the couple through the personal and professional complications that come with show-business life.
The program unfolds as a continuing domestic melodrama, with relationships, ambitions, and backstage intrigues shaping its stories. Its title places Mary at the intersection of home and theater, where the pressures of a public career can spill into private life. This installment is identified as “Regina and Her Cousin Conspire.”
The listening experience is intimate and character-focused, built around serialized storytelling and the emotional turns of a long-running radio soap opera. Theater-world settings give the drama a distinctive backdrop, while Mary’s perspective keeps its concerns grounded in marriage, loyalty, and the choices people make under pressure.
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.