"The DuPont Show of the Month" Ethan Frome (1960)

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Director:

Alex Segal

Writers:

Jacqueline Babbin (writer)
Audrey Gellen (writer)

TV Series:

"The DuPont Show of the Month" (1957)

Original Air Date:

18 February 1960 (Season 3, Episode 6)

Genre:

Drama | Comedy

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Based On Novel | Character Name In Title | Anthology | Company Sponsor Name In Title | Based On Play

Cast

Jack Betts	...	Denis Eady
Clarice Blackburn	...	Zeena Frome
Heywood Hale Broun	...	Postmaster
Philip Coolidge	...	Ed Varnum
Roy Fant	...	Simon
Julie Harris	...	Mattie Silver
Sterling Hayden	...	Ethan Frome
Arthur Hill	...	Narrator
Kim Stanley	...	Sarah Anne Howe
Charles Tyner	...	Jotham Powell

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

CBS Television Network

Trivia:

Kim Stanley replaced Geraldine Page who withdrew because of a contractual obligation to a Broadway play.

Movie Connections:

Version of Ethan Frome (1993)

great tv version of classic novel

This is a great tv version of the classic Edith Wharton novel, one of my favorite books in college. It was part of the DuPont Show of the Month series of classic plays and novels. When Julie Harris was not busy giving perfect portrayals of classic roles on the Hallmark Hall of Fame, she was giving them in other series such as this, along with The Heiress, The night of the Storm, and He Who Gets Slapped. She is the young, pretty Mattie Silver in this, and gives a very good performance. Also Sterling Hayden, he also of some great tv performances of that era, as Ethan Frome. This was originally to have starred Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, and Mildred Natwick in a Warner Brothers' movie in the late 1940's. It was never made, but fortunately this was and is it is far more lively and interesting than the 1992 American Playhouse movie.