Showcase Productions, Inc. was the original packager/producer of much of the prime time, live, dramatic, color, 60 minute and 90 minute programming which appeared primarily on NBC during the period between September 1954 and September 1957.

Producer's Showcase Library

"TONIGHT AT 8:30"

Directed By: Otto Preminger, Associate Director Dominick Dunne
Written By: Noel Coward
Produced by: Otto Preminger and John Bloch
Air Date: 10/18/54
Stars: Ginger Rogers, Martyn Green, Estelle Winwood, Dermot McNamara
Show: 3 playlets by Noel Coward, produced and directed by Otto Preminger (and John Bloch), Associate Director Dominick Dunne, original music composed and conducted by Carmen Dragon: "Red Peppers," a satirical affectionate look at small-time vaudeville with two musical numbers, stars Ginger Rogers, Martyn Green, Estelle Winwood, Dermot McNamara; "Still Life," in which couple "see a stranger across a crowded room" and which was eventually made into a movie titled "Brief Encounter," stars Ginger Rogers, Trevor Howard, Ilka Chase, and Philip Borneuf; "Shadow Play," musical about a crisis in an otherwise happy marriage, stars Ginger Rogers, Gig Young, Margaret Hayes, David Orrick, John Baragrey, and in her television debut, Gloria Vanderbilt.

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