You and Me and the Gatepost

15th episode of the 1st season of Playwrights '56
"You and Me and the Gatepost"
Playwrights '56 episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 15
Directed byDelbert Mann
Written bySumner Locke Elliott
Original air dateApril 15, 1956 (1956-04-15)

You and Me and the Gatepost is a 1956 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott.

Plot

A socialite has to "buy" friends.

Cast

  • Mary Astor as Georgina
  • John Emery as Binky Waldron
  • Arlene Francis
  • George Grizzard as Brad Taylor
  • Paula Laurence as Jane Widdy
  • Patricia Smith as Marie

Reception

Variety called the play "something of a mixture between melodrama and satire, with neither element coming into^ its own."[1]

"Timing, direction and pace couldn't have been better," wrote the Boston Globe.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Tele Follow Up". Variety. 18 April 1956. p. 36.
  2. ^ "Almost like Broadway". The Boston Globe. 11 April 1956. p. 11.
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  • Hollywood Tandem (1953)
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  • No Place to Run (1972)
  • The Man Without a Country (1973)
  • A Girl Named Sooner (1975)
  • Breaking Up (1978)
  • Home to Stay (1978)
  • Torn Between Two Lovers (1979)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
  • The Member of the Wedding (1982)
  • The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)
  • The Last Days of Patton (1986)
  • Ironclads (1991)
  • Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)
  • Incident in a Small Town (1994)