"The Lonely Hours" focuses on a young mother of three, Louise Henderson (Gena Rowlands), and a new arrival come to rent a spare bedroom, Vera Brandon (Nancy Kelly). Louise is certain she knows the childless Vera from somewhere but cannot remember, and there are things that the new boarder does not reveal to her, such as the fact that she already has an apartment elsewhere, under the name Williams. Quickly growing attached to Lonnie, the infant son of Louise, Vera eventually introduces him as her own child to her old landlady (Jesslyn Fax), who immediately comments on the resemblance between the two. Louise notices Vera's odd behavior, and begins to investigate her identity. Best remembered as the harried mother of "The Bad Seed" (1956), Nancy Kelly gets to play the other side, in a topical story that continues to be a mother's worst nightmare.
