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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"HAPPY BIRTHDAY"

Directed By: Alex Segal
Written By: Anita Loos
Produced by: Alex Segal
Air Date: 6/25/56
Stars: Betty Field, Barry Nelson, Enid Markey, Tina Louise, Harry Belaver, Parker McCormick, Harold Vermilyea, Luella Gear, Wynn Gibson, Sidney Armus, Buster Davis.
Show: adapted from the 1946 Anita Loos Broadway comedy; produced and directed by Alex Segal; story of modest and inhibited Newark librarian who secretly loves handsome young bank clerk, schemes to meet him in a bar and gets drunk herself but successfully pursues a campaign to woo him, aided by the bar patrons; stars Betty Field, Barry Nelson, Enid Markey, Tina Louise, Harry Belaver, Parker McCormick, Harold Vermilyea, Luella Gear, Wynn Gibson, Sidney Armus, Buster Davis.

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