Word: teleplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). An original teleplay by Reginald Rose, starring Red Buttons and Diana Lynn as a shy couple who finds marriage a little more complicated than the lonely-hearts club had implied it would...
United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* A first teleplay by Joe Palmer Jr.; Actor Richard Boone (The Rivalry; Have Gun, Will Travel) plays a tuberculosis patient of unusual imagination...
...drama last week over CBS's Playhouse go (Thurs., 9:30-11:00 p.m.). Writer Frank D. Gilroy had the sense to stick close to Marquand's story, and the talent to weave many of the bland Marquand nuances of class and manner into a go-minute teleplay that had consistency, pace and believability. Good direction (by Vincent Done-hue) carried the story past Gilroy's occasional rough spots and got good performances out of a good cast. Sarah Churchill was a handsome, if not sufficiently Scott Fitzgeraldean, Bess Harcourt of the mill-owning Harcourts. Particularly when...
Most Original Teleplay: Robert Alan Aurthur's A Man Is Ten Feet Tall...
Studio One opened its sixth TV season last week by boldly offering an hour of utter despair. A grim, gruesome, humorless show, it was television at its best. The teleplay: George Orwell's bitter satire, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which Mrs. Orwell released to Studio One only after assurances that there would be no tampering with her late husband's blueprint of the ultimate police state...