MYSTERY THEATER "The Resident"

A move from the countryside to town leaves a retired lady prey to a cat named Evil and a young girl who forcefully moves in with her! A CBS Mystery Theater drama which aired on January 15, 1974. In New York City the program aired on WOR radio. This was episode 10 starring Carmen Mathews. Carmen Sylvia Mathews (May 8, 1911 – August 31, 1995) was an American actress and environmentalist. Mathews was born in Philadelphia. She studied first at Bennett Junior College and then in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She began her professional acting appearance with the Stratford-on-Avon Shakespearean Company before moving back to the United States. Her Shakespearean roles included Ophelia in Hamlet and the Queen in Richard II. Her film credits include Butterfield 8 (1960), A Rage to Live (1965), Rabbit, Run (1970), Sounder (1972), Top of the Hill (1980) and Daniel (1983). On television she performed on a wide variety of series over a span of four decades. A few of those series include appearances on six episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–65), as well as roles in a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone and a 1964 episode of The Fugitive. One of her more memorable televised performances is as Colonel Lilian Rayborn on Episode 150 of M*A*S*H. Toward the end of her career, in 1990, she was cast in the Last Best Year with Mary Tyler Moore and Bernadette Peters.