Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
  • Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
  • Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
  • Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
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Sorry, Wrong Number Cast
 

On-Screen Couples
Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster Barbara Stanwyck (as Leona Stevenson) with Burt Lancaster (as Henry Stevenson)

 

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Other Information

Awards
Best Written American Drama Writers Guild of America, USA [1949] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Motion Picture Edgar Allan Poe Awards [1949] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Best Actress in a Leading Role Academy Awards [1949] (Won/Nominated: Nominated)
Plot Summary
Wealthy New York invalid Leona Cotterell Stevenson`s lifeline is the telephone. Consequently, when she is left alone after her maid departs and gets a continuous busy signal from her husband Henry`s office, she becomes worried and asks a telephone o...
Tagline
Tangled Wires... Whispering of Murder! Tangled Lives... Fighting to Escape!
The most famous radio drama of all time now electrifies the screen!
Heiress to millions...who bought everything she wanted...including this man!
Helpless ... alone ... she heard her own murder being planned on the telephone!
The prize-winning radio suspense drama that thrilled 40,000,000 people ... now electrifies the screen!
She overheard the plans for her own destruction!

Discography

Singles
Wedding March
Symphony No. 8 in B Minor (Unfinished)
June in January
Passacaglia
 

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Awards
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) was nominated for the following awards:

Academy Awards

1.
Oscar
1949
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated  
 

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Trivia

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Quotes
  • [first lines] Leona Stevenson: Operator! Operator! Operator! Voice of Operator: Your call please? Leona Stevenson: Operator, I`ve been ringing Murray Hill 35097 for the last half hour and the line is always busy. Will you ring it for me, please?
  • [opening title card] [Prologue]: In the tangled networks of a great city, the telephone is the unseen link between a million lives... it is the servant of our common needs ~~ the confidante of our inmost secrets... life and happiness wait upon its ring... and horror... and loneliness... and... death!
  • Henry Stevenson: [to Leona] I want you to do something. I want you to get yourself out of the bed, and get over to the window and scream as loud as you can. Otherwise you only have another three minutes to live.
  • Henry Stevenson: Besides, what does a dame like you want with a guy like me?
  • Henry Stevenson: You can`t live on dreams forever. Waiting only weakens you and your dream. My motto is: "If you want something, get it now!"
    Trivia
  • Leif Erickson and Jimmy Hunt would play father and son again, five years later, in Invaders from Mars (1953).
  • Film noir adaptation of the famous 1943 radio play.
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