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The Girl with the Stop Watch

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"The Girl with the Stop Watch"
Goodyear Television Playhouse episode
Directed byArthur Penn
Written bySumner Locke Elliott
Original air dateOctober 25, 1953 (1953-10-25)
Running time60 mins

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

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A TV script girl, Evelyn Blanchard, buries herself in her job to avoid the truth about her mother.

Cast

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  • Betty Miller as Evelyn Blanchard
  • Philip Abbott as Chester Nicholson
  • Louis Wilson as Mrs Blanchard
  • Martin Brooks
  • Bert Thorn
  • Laurie Shelby

Reception

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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

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  1. ^ "Television world". Tulsa World Magazine. 8 November 1953. p. 34.
  2. ^ "25 October 1953". Ross Reports on Television. 1953.
  3. ^ "Tele Follow Up Comment". Variety. 28 October 1953. p. 24.
  4. ^ "TV reviews". The Memphis Press-Scimitar. 27 October 1953. p. 12.