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Friday, October 30, 2020


 

4 comments:

James said...

I love the young Ida Lupino in this one. I remember her best from tv shows in the fifties.

CyberKitten said...

Wow! She definitely got around on 50's TV!! I had no idea.

[From Wiki]

Lupino appeared in 19 episodes of Four Star Playhouse from 1952 to 1956. From January 1957 to September 1958, Lupino starred with her then-husband Howard Duff in the sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, in which the duo played husband-and-wife film stars named Howard Adams and Eve Drake, living in Beverly Hills, California. Duff and Lupino also co-starred as themselves in 1959 in one of the 13 one-hour installments of The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour and an episode of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show in 1960. Lupino guest-starred in numerous television shows, including The Ford Television Theatre (1954), Bonanza (1959), Burke's Law (1963–64), The Virginian (1963–65), Batman (1968), The Mod Squad (1969), Family Affair (1969–70), The Wild, Wild West (1969), Nanny and the Professor (1971), Columbo: Short Fuse (1972), Columbo: Swan Song (1974), Barnaby Jones (1974), The Streets of San Francisco, Ellery Queen (1975), Police Woman (1975), and Charlie's Angels (1977).

She has two distinctions with The Twilight Zone series, as the only woman to have directed an episode ("The Masks") and the only person to have worked as both actress and (uncredited) as a director in an episode ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine").

mudpuddle said...

Basil Rathbone is SH reincarnated: the one and only...

interesting re Ida L. i remember seeing her back in the fifties from time to time; on tv, of course...

CyberKitten said...

@ Mudpuddle: Whenever I think of or read anything with Holmes in it I either picture Rathbone (SO iconic) or Brett (VERY good to) in the part. I really must read some of the post-Conan Doyle Holmes books to see if they're any good. There's a whole INDUSTRY of them out there - along with separate stuff with Watson, Moriarty and Mycroft too. Plus, I think, Inspector Lagrange!