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.

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"THE FOURPOSTER"

Directed By: Clark Jones, Associate Director Dominick Dunne
Written By: Jan de Hartog
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Air Date: 7/25/55
Stars: Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, Barbara Dodd, Anita Cooper, Anita Coursant, Bob Heller, Roy Johnson, Eli Rill
Show: television version of Broadway comedy hit by Jan de Hartog, directed by Clark Jones, Associate Director Dominick Dunne, produced and staged by Hume Cronyn; stars Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy reprising their Broadway roles in the gently humorous and perceptive story of a marriage, from the wedding night in 1890, through 35 years of marriage, all in or near the couple's old four-poster bed, which finally has to be left behind as being too large for their retirement apartment; cast includes Barbara Dodd, Anita Cooper, Anita Coursant, Bob Heller, Roy Johnson, Eli Rill

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