#playhouse 90

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price in an episode of Playhouse 90 (1955)

[citizenscreen]

Hoagy Carmichael with Polly Bergen and Sylvia Sydney in 'The Helen Morgan Story,’ a 1957 episode of ‘Playhouse 90.’

[busterkeatonsociety]

#WIPWednesday Buster Keaton & Hope Emerson on the set of “The Innocent Sleep,” a Playhouse 90 that aired on CBS 66 years ago today.

[ufonaut]

Yeah, sure it hurts, but I'm getting used to it. You know, it's getting like an old friend. Every punch you take for fourteen years, you just slough it off because it's part of the bill you pay going up. But after that, all those punches, they start to hurt. They hurt sometimes like you want to scream.

Jack Palance & Kim Hunter in Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956), a teleplay written by Rod Serling for the live television show Playhouse 90.

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James Mason in a publicity photo for an episode of Playhouse 90 (1958)

[wordfromoursponsor]

"BBDO Network TV Clients' Booth" (1957 house ad)

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Eloise - CBS - November 22, 1956

A presentation of "Playhouse 90" Season 1 Episode 8

Musical Comedy

Running Time: 90 minutes

Directed By: John Frankenheimer

Produced By: Martin Manulis

Hosted by: June Lockhart

Stars:

Evelyn Rudie as Eloise

Ethel Barrymore as herself

Louis Jourdan as himself

Kay Thompson as herself

Hans Conried as Rupert

Charlie Ruggles as Murphy

Mildred Natwick as Nanny

Jack Mullaney as Philip

Conrad Hilton as himself

Maxie Rosenbloom as himself

Monty Woolley as himself

William Roerick as Manager of the Plaza

Inger Stevens as Joanna

Bartlett Robinson as Eloise's Lawyer

[tuttle-did-it]

Murder She Wrote ‘From the Horse’s Mouth (s7, e16)

Kevin McCarthy (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Innerspace, Addams Family Reunion, Batman the Animated Series, Father Dowling Investigates, Matlock, Simon & Simon, Dynasty, Fantasy Island, Twilight Zone The Movie, etc)

Tricia O’Neal (ST:TNG, ST:DS9, Titanic, Babylon 5, JAG, Diagnosis Murder, Matlock, Dallas, Simon & Simon, Dynasty The A-Team, Columbo, etc)

Nanette Fabray (The Munsters Today, One Day at a Time (1979-86), The Love Boat, Maude, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Love American Style, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Playhouse 90, and Coach - incidentally, she’s Shelley Fabray’s aunt)

Aired 24 Feb 1991

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piper laurie as kirsten clay in playhouse 90's "days of wine and roses"

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding lead actress in a limited series or movie

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Peter Lorre with Donald O'Connor in Playhouse 90's "Jet-Propelled Couch." October 29, 1957. So far I've been unable to find this loose out there...

And with Gale Gordon from the same episode.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price

Playhouse 90; Forbidden Area (1956)

[citizenscreen]

#OnThisDay in 1956, a new CBS series, “Playhouse 90,” premiered. The live TV dramatic anthology series featured great actors and, throughout its run, gave voice to acclaimed writers like Tad Mosel, Rod Serling, and Paddy Chayefsky.

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…June 5, 1958

CBS airs “The Innocent Sleep” for Playhouse 90. In this Archive of American Television interview, director Tad Mosel recalls working with Buster Keaton.

[ufonaut]

"This kind of guy don't take getting laughed at."

"What are you talking about, this kind of guy? What is he, a prima donna all of a sudden? All of a sudden he's sensitive? All of a sudden he's fragile like a piece of precious china or somethin'? Since when does a guy like this get so sensitive all of a sudden?"

"Since when? Since we knew him, that's since when. You never see things like that, Maish. […] He only has one thing left, that's his pride. He was a somebody."

Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956)

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Playhouse 90

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On the topic of Ed Wynn being a shockingly good dramatic actor, if you haven’t seen the Playhouse 90 version of Requiem for a Heavyweight, please for the love of God, do yourself a favor.