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...blossomed so suddenly; TV worked like that in its infancy. In 1951 Phyllis parlayed a research job at Theater Arts magazine into a stint producing a quarter-hour chat-fest, ?Footlights and Klieglights.? The local NBC affiliate WNBT (later WNBC) paired Phyllis? theater show with another 15-min. effort she produced, ?Bringing Up Mother.? For most of the week, Phyllis said, the show offered ?the usual junk presented for housewives,? while on Fridays it addressed serious issues. Four days of Martha Stewart, one day of Ms. magazine...
...Friday show quickly evolved into a half-hour daily discussion show, ?It?s a Problem,? which NBC sent out to 18 other stations. Given Phyllis? life of privilege, it?s not surprising that she was choosing topics less from personal experience than from her voracious curiosity. The Sun obit quotes her as telling the Times: ?I could count only nine or 10 problems that I had experienced and was sure we?d run out of problems within two weeks. I was scared to death when I got the assignment and left immediately on a trip to Bermuda.? Apparently, she recovered...
...when ?It?s My Problem? went off the air, Phyllis produced a lit-chat show, ?Author Meets the Critics,? for New York TV station WOR. The following year, she hooked up with Arlene Francis for the daily hour-long show, ?Home.? Arlene was already a TV celebrity as a panelist on ?What?s My Line.? But she had been on Broadway since 1936, when she appeared in the original production of Clare Boothe Luce?s ?The Women?; and in 1945 she starred briefly in the comedy ?The French Touch? - sets designed by George Jenkins...
...hour-long question and answer session which followed the screening, Orlean expressed her admiration for the shadowy Donald Kaufman, instantly naming him as the one person, dead or alive, with whom she would choose to dine given the chance...
Sonja jumps up, and is soon back with a French bottle. Gerlinde fetches glasses and proceeds to uncork the champagne with a confident hand. I am still a little surprised: at the early hour for champagne, and at the friendly atmosphere of this motley group...