#Producers Showcase

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Our Town - NBC - September 19, 1955

A presentation of "Producers' Showcase" Season 2 Episode 1

Musical

Running Time: 90 minutes

Stars:

Frank Sinatra as The Stage Manager

Eva Marie Saint as Emily Webb

Paul Newman as George Gibbs

Ernest Truex as Dr. Gibbs

Sylvia Field as Mrs. Gibbs

Paul Hartman as Mr. Webb

Peg Hillias as Mrs. Webb

Anthony Sydes as Joe Crowell

Shelley Fabares as Rebecca Gibbs

David Saber as Wally Webb

Carol Veazie as Mrs. Soames

Charlotte Knight as Mrs. Slocumb

Harvey B. Dunn as Mr. McCarthy

[peterlorrefanpage]

I so want his Poffy to be one of the two male leads in that teleplay instead of the "just a friend" side character. Though he probably stole every scene as usual, even the ones he wasn't in.

Ooooooooooooooooo the Baron is someone to look forward to.

Poffy! 🥰 I LOVE the newest picture you found of him and Greer Garson! In my imagination, the entire teleplay is all about Poffy, even though I know this is certainly not the case. I just want the whole story to be a romantic adventure where Peter-as-Poffy flirts with every woman and they all love him for it. Because that's basically what happens in my imagination on a constant loop.

Also I love that this post has reappeared because the pictures are a great character reference for a certain Baron who will (hopefully) make an appearance in a new story of mine before Halloween. It won't be finished until November, probably, but I just couldn't help starting a new Lorre fic, even if it is complete fluffy fetish nonsense. :D

[mothyandthesquid]

Preparation for The Scottish Wool Producers Showcase. This is the delightful Gunpowder Flock pedigree Hebridean yarn I will be bringing to the show this weekend. I look forward to sharing its beauty with you and telling you all about it!

[cursedthing]

.the void calls, what will you do? Will you answer it?

[inkspottie]

Whatcha think of the small movement where actual artists take AI generated images, redraw them and claim these as theirs??

Personally I think it’s not the best idea to even put attention to AI art. Sure, it’s a good sentiment but at the end of the day it still points back to AI.

It’s better to do human trends than AI ones

[banrionceallach]

Me: I would like to watch someone cook something very well and have a fun relaxed time while doing it.

Netflix: Here are twenty multi-season, heavily competitive cooking shows where people regularly scream, shout, get disturbingly aggressive and break down in tears because there's a life-changing cash prize hinging on their being better than the competition.

Me: :(

Netflix: Fine. Here are maybe four single season shows where someone has fun cooking.

Me: :)

Netflix: I see you've finished the extremely limited amount of nice relaxing shows. Are you sure you don't want to watch the screaming, crying, aggressive and borderline verbal abuse cooking shows? We have so many! And they have many seasons! Are you sure????

Me: Please let me watch The Cook-A-Long in peace (T-T)

Netflix: But you could be watching someone have a mental breakdown over their cupcake's consistency! Doesn't that sound fun!

[milesworld96]

GUYS I need opinions pls

What tarot card would Jungleboy be? I’m contemplating making pins based off of him, and I already have a design set for the Scapegoat tarot card. But I have absolutely ZERO idea what card Jungleboy would be considered. 😭😭 pls help

[citizenscreen]

Anatole Litvak directing Audrey Hepburn in "Mayerling,” 1957 episode of “Producer’s Showcase.”

[dragonsongmakhali]

Was gonna do some glam crafting/arcadion posing on my one free night of the week, but I have been assigned a dire purpose (put together furniture) from heaven (amazon delivery), and I cannot stray from it any more than the sun can stray from rising each morning 😔

[peterlorrefanpage]

"I strongly urge that we all smother our justifiable grievances and pretend to be having a very devil of an uproarious carousal. Let us close our eyes to the fact that we all look a bit moth-eaten and concentrate on getting through this with a show of good grace." -Poffy (Reunion in Vienna)

Here is Robert E. Sherwood's 1932 play for "Reunion in Vienna"!

See all previous pics here.

While the 1955 television episode (pictured above) is currently lost, and I haven't gotten ahold of the actual 1955 script, I can but hope that Peter Lorre, who played Poffy, still got to say awesome lines like the above in the episode. And these:

"Because you realize this celebration will be nothing more than a gathering of broken-down old outcasts, like myself—with no one to give us animation, no one to give us the illusion of youth . . . but . . . I'm afraid that it may not be quite what you expect. . . ."

Poffy is a tragic but gallant ex-officer of the Imperial Army, who is now engaged in the great work of guiding American tourists about the Hofburg.

Other versions:

There was a 1933 John Barrymore picture that seems hard to find commercially, but here's a deliciously spoilery review. The Poffy character isn't mentioned once.

We do have this 1966 radio broadcast:

If the above won't play in your country, try this site instead.

Incidentally, in the play, Poffy is Baron Povoromo, which became Lord Pofferoff in Barrymore's version, et al. It's just as well I saw the latter first because I dearly love the alliteration. And I'm definitely keeping it as such for my Blackadder II crossover story, ahem, ahem, start here. :D

[karmaphone]

saw some drawings of some tummies peeking out of shirts w tattoos and got real excited thinking it was butches and then I read the caption and it was fight club fanart

[mothyandthesquid]

We are in Perth for the Scottish Wool Producers Showcase with the gorgeous Gunpowder Flock Hebridean Yarn.

[busterkeatonsociety]

This Day in Buster…September 17, 1956

Buster Keaton appears as a sad clown on CBS’ Producer’s Showcase - ‘The Lord Don’t Play Favorites’ - a drought-ridden Kansas town fines the visiting circus in order to pay for the services of a rainmaker. The circus doesn't take it lying down - watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/PqS2iSrItMw

[teddy06]

ME WHEN MY WRITING WON BEST SCRIPT FOR THE 24 HOUR PLAY SLAM

[jackdawsfavorite]

My ad blocker doesn’t like that link for some reason. Here’s a direct link to the article in case yours doesn’t either.

[cheyennix]

Here's a little reel of my music from the past year!

All of them are on all streaming services & YouTube!