The Girl with the Stop Watch is a 1953 episode of the TV series Goodyear Television Playhouse directed by Arthur Penn, produced by Fred Coe and written by Sumner Locke Elliott.[1][2]
Premise
A TV script girl, Evelyn Blanchard, buries herself in her job to avoid the truth about her mother.
Cast
- Betty Miller as Evelyn Blanchard
- Philip Abbott as Chester Nicholson
- Louis Wilson as Mrs Blanchard
- Martin Brooks
- Bert Thorn
- Laurie Shelby
Reception
Variety called it "a mixture between a bore and some rather unpleasant bits of overplayed dramatics."[3]
Another review said "there wasn't much real character development."[4]
References
- ^ "Television world". Tulsa World Magazine. 8 November 1953. p. 34.
- ^ "25 October 1953". Ross Reports on Television. 1953.
- ^ "Tele Follow Up Comment". Variety. 28 October 1953. p. 24.
- ^ "TV reviews". The Memphis Press-Scimitar. 27 October 1953. p. 12.
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