“Oldsmobile Music Theatre” Films, 1959

Contents List

Container Title
DE 497
"A Nice Place to Hide," 1959 March 26
Note: Written by Thom Blake
Directed by Jack Smight
Cast: Jackie Cooper, Genevieve, Ford Rainey, Joanna Roos, Richard Slattery, The Herbie Mann Quartet
Title of show: Oldsmobile Music Theatre
Scope and Content Note: A drifter comes into town and takes a temporary job at the library. He falls in love with a visiting French librarian and they must decide if they will have a relationship together.
DE 501
"An Almost Perfect Plan," 1959 April 2
Note: Written by Bob Van Scoyk
Directed by Gerald Freedman
Cast: James Shigeta, Michi Kobi, Philip Ahn, Richard Kuen Loo
Title of show: Oldsmobile Music Theatre
Scope and Content Note: A rich Japanese girl is pursued romantically by a poor young man. Her uncle disapproves and does not trust the young man's motives.
DE 493
"Too Bad About Sheila Troy" [Part 1], 1959 April 16
Note: Written by Art Wallace
Directed by Jack Smight
Cast: Chester Morris, Carol Lawrence, Roddy McDowall, Hurd Hatfield, Whitfield Connor, Arthur Storch, Lorraine Rogers
Title of show: Oldsmobile Music Theatre
Scope and Content Note: Sheila Troy, a movie star since she was a young girl, has a nervous breakdown after her marriage to a producer fails. She finds a temporary solace in her new marriage until she understands what her new husband is really after.
DE 494
"Too Bad About Sheila Troy" [Part II], 1959 April 23
DE 488
"The Magic 88 [Eighty Eight]," 1959 April 30
Note: Directed by Paul Bogart
Title of show: Oldsmobile Presents
Scope and Content Note: A salute to the piano and to Richard Rodgers.
DE 496
"The Sound of Murder," 1959 May 7
Note: Written by Irving Gaynor Neiman
Directed by Dennis Vance
Cast: Dorothy Collins, Ralph Meeker, Cameron Prud'homme, John McQuade
Title of show: Oldsmobile Presents
Scope and Content Note: The owner of a carnival sideshow act witnesses a murder. The next day he denies seeing anything. When his daughter decides to leave the act with the singer of the show he must tell her who the murderer is.