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"Sunday Showcase" What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 1 (1959)
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27 September 1959
(Season 1, Episode 2)
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(Episode Credited cast)| Sidney Blackmer | ... | H.L. Harrington | |
| Larry Blyden | ... | Sammy Glick | |
| Norman Fell | ... | Sammy's Brother | |
| John Forsythe | ... | Al Manheim | |
| Jay Lawrence | ... | Sheik Romero | |
| Horace McMahon | ... | Mike Crowley (as Horace MacMahon) | |
| Dina Merrill | ... | Laurette Harrington | |
| Nelson Olmsted | ... | Ben Osborne | |
| David Opatoshu | ... | Sidney Fineman | |
| William Post Jr. | ... | Lucky Westover | |
| Barbara Rush | ... | Kit Sargent | |
| Milton Selzer | ... | Julian Blumberg | |
| Monique van Vooren | ... | Zizi Molnari | |
| Earl Wilson | ... | Himself |
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Around 1956, 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.
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