"Sunday Showcase" (1959) TV series 1959-1960

Directors:

Sidney Lumet
Delbert Mann

Writers:

Reginald Rose (writer) (episode)
Budd Schulberg (writer) (episode)

Seasons:

1 | unknown

Release Date:

20 September 1959 (USA)

Genre:

Biography | Comedy | Drama | Music | Romance

Plot:

A show featuring various specials. Some specials were comedy and others were serious drama by famous authors.

Plot Keywords:

Male Female Relationship | Anthology

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

 (Series Cast [48])

Robert Emhardt	...	Governor Fuller / ... (4 episodes, 1960-1961)
Jimmy Durante	...	Himself / ... (3 episodes, 1959-1961)
Larry Blyden	...	Sammy Glick (3 episodes, 1959-1960)
E.G. Marshall	...	William Thompson / ... (3 episodes, 1959-1960)
Milton Selzer	...	Julian Blumberg / ... (3 episodes, 1959-1960)
Royal Beal	...	Walter Ripley / ... (3 episodes, 1960)
Stuart Germain	...	Judge Webster Thayer / ... (3 episodes, 1960)
Steven Hill	...	Bartolomeo Vanzetti / ... (3 episodes, 1960)
Milton Berle	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1959)
Teresa Wright	...	Julia Grant / ... (2 episodes, 1960)
Bob Hope	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1959-1961)
Ralph Bellamy	...	Himself / ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Henderson Forsythe	...	General Buckner / ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Cedric Hardwicke	...	Himself / ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Sidney Blackmer	...	H.L. Harrington (2 episodes, 1959)
Norman Fell	...	Sammy's Brother (2 episodes, 1959)
John Forsythe	...	Al Manheim (2 episodes, 1959)
Jay Lawrence	...	Sheik Romero (2 episodes, 1959)
Horace McMahon	...	Mike Crowley (2 episodes, 1959)
Dina Merrill	...	Laurette Harrington (2 episodes, 1959)
Nelson Olmsted	...	Ben Osborne (2 episodes, 1959)
David Opatoshu	...	Sidney Fineman (2 episodes, 1959)
William Post Jr.	...	Lucky Westover (2 episodes, 1959)
Barbara Rush	...	Kit Sargent (2 episodes, 1959)
Monique van Vooren	...	Zizi Molnari (2 episodes, 1959)
Earl Wilson	...	Himself (2 episodes, 1959)
Humphrey Davis	...	Captain Feidman / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961)
Allen Nourse	...	Governor Yates / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961)
Alfred Sandor	...	Lieutenant Hodges / ... (2 episodes, 1960-1961)
Martin Balsam	...	Nicola Sacco (2 episodes, 1960)
John C. Becher	...	Chief Stewart (2 episodes, 1960)
Frank Campanella	...	Prison Guard (2 episodes, 1960)
Tom Carlin	...	Gardner Jackson (2 episodes, 1960)
Tom Clancy	...	Will H. Daly (2 episodes, 1960)
Harry Davis	...	Michael Levangie / ... (2 episodes, 1960)
Dana Elcar	...	Newspaperman (2 episodes, 1960)
Rex Everhart	...	Officer LeBaron (2 episodes, 1960)
Ben Grauer	...	Narrator (2 episodes, 1960)
Wyley Hancock	...	John Vaney (2 episodes, 1960)
Anne Hegira	...	Lola Andrews (2 episodes, 1960)
Mary James	...	Mary Splaine (2 episodes, 1960)
House Jameson	...	A. Lawrence Lowell (2 episodes, 1960)
Dan Morgan	...	Captain Proctor (2 episodes, 1960)
Carroll O'Connor	...	Frederick Katzman (2 episodes, 1960)
Christopher Plummer	...	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (2 episodes, 1960)
Charles Tyner	...	Clerk (2 episodes, 1960)
Ben Yaffee	...	C.A. Barr (2 episodes, 1960)
Lowell Thomas	...	Host / ... (2 episodes, 1961)

Also Known As:

Breck Sunday Showcase (USA) (promotional title)
NBC Sunday Showcase (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Trivia:

Around 1956, singer Eddie Fisher and his agent Lew Wasserman were discussing roles for Fisher's acting debut. A project being discussed at the time was "What Makes Sammy Run?" by Budd Schulberg and Stuart Schulberg. Fisher wanted to play aggressive producer Sammy Glick, "the ultimate Jewish hustler. I knew a lot of real Sammy Glicks and I felt confident that was a character I could play." Lew Wasserman decided that the character was too much of a classic negative Jewish stereotype and that it would be bad for Fisher to play it. So Fisher went in the complete opposite direction (in retrospect, perhaps too far) with then-wife Debbie Reynolds in the squeaky clean comedy that Fisher hated, Bundle of Joy (1956), a film made to capitalize on the birth of their daughter, future Star Wars (1977) "Princess Leia" Carrie Fisher. The Schulberg project "What Makes Sammy Run?" was eventually produced in 2 parts for this show, episodes #1.2 and #1.3.