The Girl with the Stop Watch

Episode of Goodyear Television Playhouse

"The Girl with the Stop Watch"
Goodyear Television Playhouse episode
Directed by	Arthur Penn
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	October 25, 1953 (1953-10-25)
Running time	60 mins

The Girl with the Stop Watch is a 1953 episode of the TV series Goodyear Television Playhouse directed by Arthur Penn, produced by Fred Coe and written by Sumner Locke Elliott.^[1]^[2]

Premise

A TV script girl, Evelyn Blanchard, buries herself in her job to avoid the truth about her mother.

Cast

Betty Miller as Evelyn Blanchard
Philip Abbott as Chester Nicholson
Louis Wilson as Mrs Blanchard
Martin Brooks
Bert Thorn
Laurie Shelby

Reception

Variety called it "a mixture between a bore and some rather unpleasant bits of overplayed dramatics."^[3]

Another review said "there wasn't much real character development."^[4]

References

^ "Television world". Tulsa World Magazine. 8 November 1953. p. 34.
^ "25 October 1953". Ross Reports on Television. 1953.
^ "Tele Follow Up Comment". Variety. 28 October 1953. p. 24.
^ "TV reviews". The Memphis Press-Scimitar. 27 October 1953. p. 12.

Works of Sumner Locke Elliott

Novels

Careful, He Might Hear You (1963)
Some Doves and Pythons (1966)
Edens Lost (1969)
The Man Who Got Away (1972)

Plays

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)

TV scripts

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)
We Were Children (1952)
The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953)
Before I Wake (1953)
Friday the 13th (1954)
Buy Me Blue Ribbons (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)
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)

Adaptations

Rusty Bugles (1965)
Water Under the Bridge (1980)
Rusty Bugles (1981)
Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)

Radio

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)
The Thin Air (1954)
We Were Children (1954)
Friday the 13th (1955)

v t e Films directed by Arthur Penn
Feature films	The Left Handed Gun (1958) The Miracle Worker (1962) Mickey One (1965) The Chase (1966) Bonnie and Clyde (1967) Alice's Restaurant (1969) Little Big Man (1970) Visions of Eight (1973) Night Moves (1975) The Missouri Breaks (1976) Four Friends (1981) Target (1985) Dead of Winter (1987) Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989)
Television	The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Friday the 13th (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Invitation to a Gunfighter (1957) Portrait of a Murderer (1958) Flesh and Blood (1968) The Portrait (1993) Inside (1996)