Episode no. Season 2
Episode 1 Featured music Jimmy Van Heusen Show Producers' Showcase Episode number 12 Previous episode The Skin of Our Teeth Produced by Fred Coe | Directed by Delbert Mann Running time 90 minutes Season number 2 Air date 19 September 1955 Next episode Cyrano de Bergerac | |
Written by David Shaw (adaptation)
Thornton Wilder (play) Original air date September 19, 1955 (1955-09-19) | ||
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Our Town is a 1955 episode of the American series Producers' Showcase directed by Delbert Mann and starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. The episode is a musical adaption of Thornton Wilder's 1938 play Our Town, with songs by Jimmy van Heusen and Sammy Cahn. It was Sinatra's only performance in a dramatic role specifically for television until Contract on Cherry Street in 1977.
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Reception
The show was praised by television critics, although several writers have questioned Sinatra's suitability for the role of the Stage Manager. Thornton Wilder reportedly disliked the production.
Cast
Soundtrack
This television production marked the beginning of the lengthy and successful collaboration between Cahn and Van Heusen. Among their songs for the production was "Love and Marriage", later known as the theme song to the TV show Married... with Children. Sinatra's version of the song from the program became a chart success, as did another version quickly recorded by Dinah Shore. The show was also Nelson Riddle's first time to take charge as conductor of an entire television production.