#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.

[shinigabi-tan]

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

[wordfromoursponsor]

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

[pop-sesivo]

Hoy se cumple el centenario del nacimiento de Rod Serling (1924-1975), quizás el más grande guionista de la TV estadounidense. No solo porque fue el creador y guionista de casi dos tercios de los guiones de 'La dimensión desconocida' ('The Twilight Zone', 1959-1964) sino porque alumbró la primera edad dorada de la TV, con su guion 'Requiem for a Heavyweight' para la serie 'Playhouse 90' en 1956. También concibió la serie 'Night Gallery' (1969-1973) y escribió guiones para películas, algunas de ellas consideradas hoy clásicas como 'Planet of the Apes' (1968) y 'Seven Days in May' (1964). En YouTube se consiguen entrevistas en las que diserta admirablemente sobre el oficio de escribir para TV. Un coloso.

[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

[emmynominees]

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

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price

Playhouse 90; Forbidden Area (1956)

[citizenscreen]

Dress rehearsal for CBS TV’s “Playhouse 90” adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgeralds “The Great Gatsby” in 1958. Pictured: Rod Taylor (as Nick Carraway), Jeanne Crain (as Daisy Fay Buchanan), Phillip Reed (as Tom Buchanan), Robert Ryan (as Jay Gatsby), and Patricia Barry (as Jordan Baker).

[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]

"Say you're a railroad man, and you have to lay tracks through a pass. You get your surveyor's report and you see six possible routes, and not one seemingly any better than the others but you've got to choose one way. You can't test the best way except by doing it. So you choose one way, maybe because that mountain's pink or the blueprint's a better blue. But you make up your mind so quickly and so firmly that everybody figures you must have a reason."

"In other words, you bluff."

"I want the picture released because I want it released, I don't because I don't. Call it bluffing, if you like. I'm not always right."

Playhouse 90: The Last Tycoon (1957, dir. John Frankenheimer)

[oldshowbiz]

Playhouse 90

[theimpossiblescheme]

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.