Hollywood Tandem
"Hollywood Tandem" | |
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Philco Television Playhouse episode | |
Directed by | Delbert Mann |
Written by | Sumner Locke Elliott David Shaw |
Original air date | 23 August 1953 |
Running time | 60 mins |
Hollywood Tandem is a 1953 episode of the American television series Philco Television Playhouse. It consisted of two television plays both of which were directed by Delbert Mann and produced by David Susskind. The show marked the television acting debut of Hedda Hopper.
The plays were:
- "Fade Out" by Sumner Locke Elliott - an ageing movie star attempts to make a comeback
- "The New Process" by Davis Shaw - a satire on the 3D craze
Cast of "Fade Out"
- Jesse Royce Landis
- Sidney Blackmer
- Hedda Hopper as herself
Cast of "The New Process"
- Walter Matthau
- Carole Matthews
- Ernest Truex
Reception
Variety said Hopper "came through as a definite personality, completely at ease and with a certain intriguing charm. What Miss Hoppor unfortunately could not do was to improve the quality Of the show which, especially in its second part, suffered from a variety of serious shortcomings."[1]
Radio version
Fade Out was adapted for radio by the Philco Radio Playhouse adapted by Paul Dudley. Many of the cast from the television production reprised their roles.[2] It was the first production for the series.[3]
Variety said it "was no great shakes as a dramatic vehicle, but its performances put it into the hit class."[2]
Cast of radio show
- Jessie Royce Landis
- Sidney Blackmer
- Hedda Hopper
- Everett Sloane
- Joan Shea
- George Petrie
- Ann Tobin
- Peggy Lobbin
- Marian Brash
- Joseph Cotten - narrator
References
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- Careful, He Might Hear You (1963)
- Some Doves and Pythons (1966)
- Edens Lost (1969)
- The Man Who Got Away (1972)
- The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937)
- Interval (1939)
- The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940)
- Goodbye to the Music (1942)
- Your Obedient Servant (1943)
- The Invisible Circus (1946)
- Wicked Is the Vine (1948)
- Rusty Bugles (1948)
- Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951)
- John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
- Of Human Bondage (1949)
- Wicked Is the Vine (1949)
- The Crater (1949)
- Jane Eyre (1949)
- Little Women (1950)
- The Rose Garden (1951)
- The Thin Air (1952)
- Dusty Portrait (1952)
- We Were Children (1952)
- The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953)
- Wish on the Moon (1953)
- Before I Wake (1953)
- Friday the 13th (1954)
- Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954)
- Run Girl Run (1954)
- Time Bomb (1954)
- The Women (1955)
- Beloved Stranger (1955)
- The King and Mrs. Candle (1955)
- Daisy, Daisy (1955)
- Keyhole (1956)
- You and Me and the Gatepost (1956)
- Love at Fourth Sight (1957)
- Whereabouts Unknown (1957)
- Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957)
- Babe in the Woods (1957)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1958)
- The Winslow Boy (1958)
- The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US)
- The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust)
- The Prisoner of Zenda (1961)
- Notorious (1961)
- Spellbound (1962)
- Rusty Bugles (1965)
- Water Under the Bridge (1980)
- Rusty Bugles (1981)
- Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
- Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
- Crazy Family (1939)
- Tradesman's Entrance (1941)
- Jezebel's Daughter (1941)
- Grand City (1942)
- Girl of the Ballet (1942)
- The Man in the Dark (1944)
- The Army Hour (1944)
- Lily Parker (1947)
- Scarlet Rhapsody (1947)
- Wicked Is the Vine (1947)
- Ride a Cock Horse (1948)
- The Crater (1948)
- The Rose Garden (1950)
- Dusty Portrait (1953)
- The Thin Air (1954)
- We Were Children (1954)
- Friday the 13th (1955)