SWC75
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I like to use You-Tube as a time machine - to look at something from what is now along time ago and remember when it wasn't. I'm checking out some so the anthology series of the 50's, which contain many perfectly watchable and entertaining stories from the "Golden Age of Television" and feature many famous actors. They are just as good as watching episodic TV from that period. If you don't check these out, you have missed a lot of what those famous performers did.
This one is from Kraft Theater on January 23, 1950. A good but forgotten actor named Mark Roberts plays a GI who falls for a French mademoiselle. His best friend is is sergeant, played by George Reeves, a year before he started playing Superman. It's a wonderful comic performance. His CO is played by E.. Marshall, later of The Defenders, (the original one, not the Las Vegas one), who insists on being called a lawyer, rather than a colonel, because that's his real profession. Despite the IMDB cast listing, Anne Francis, (later Honey West), is not in this. 'Odette' is played by Olive Deering. But it's fun watch in any case.
This one is from Kraft Theater on January 23, 1950. A good but forgotten actor named Mark Roberts plays a GI who falls for a French mademoiselle. His best friend is is sergeant, played by George Reeves, a year before he started playing Superman. It's a wonderful comic performance. His CO is played by E.. Marshall, later of The Defenders, (the original one, not the Las Vegas one), who insists on being called a lawyer, rather than a colonel, because that's his real profession. Despite the IMDB cast listing, Anne Francis, (later Honey West), is not in this. 'Odette' is played by Olive Deering. But it's fun watch in any case.
