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About
This was a live performance June 25, 1952 captured on a kinescope recording, and later transferred to tape. It has been restored to bring it closer to what the original may have looked like on TV in 1952. A much better restoration is possible with pro software if the kinescope film still exists. It was presented on the Celanese Theatre, which featured adaptations of plays by well-known authors. The commercials were of course for Celanese plastic and fiber made into products. There were other TV, radio, and movie adaptations of this successful play. The movie and TV adaptations took out Gramps’s profanity, but left in a few mild words. The profanity was a major source of humor. The expression “go where the Woodbine twineth” was a euphemism for death in a song about a soldier by Septimus Winner in the late 1800s.
Author: Paul Osborn
Based on Novel by: Lawrence C. Watkin
Producer/Director: Alex Segal
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Ralph Morgan - Gramps
Melville Cooper – Mr. Brink
Mildred Dunnock - Demetria
Philip Coolidge - Pilbeam
Billy Chapin - Pud
Clay Clement – Dr. Evans
Nell Harrison – Granny
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Film noir
- Licence or status
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Language
- English
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed