OMG I have a SInger 221 Featherweight! From the 1940's...a wedding present to my mother from her mother in law...I am two years younger (75) than the machine. Which I still use every day, BTW!!! Runs like a top, purrs like a kitten....
I remember my dear Mum sitting at her Singer many years ago, creating some lovely outfits for me and my sister! Don't know what model it was but we all loved it. And these short films are great!
Ida Lupino looks so much like my late mother when she was young, it’s uncanny! It was great seeing this, even if with it was with a bit of a lump in my throat.
I was disappointed when it ended I wanted it to go on and on and on such a good actress one of the best she's up there with Betty Davis too bad she didn't get the glory of Betty Davis and she had her own studio for a while also and did directing she was a genius I'll look forward to more of these movies.
I LOVED the ending! I just loved it and felt VERY happy with the way it ended. It's also a new beginning for my two favorite characters in this story. Ida Lupino was a class act. And the fashions in this play were all in such good taste.
I really enjoyed this play. Ida Lupino was a great actress. In the commercials, the Singer Featherweight machine is fantastic! If you find one, it can sell for anywhere from $500 to over 1K in mint condition. I also have a slant needle machine and it's a workhorse!
1:06- "J. Gwen Bagni" was actually Gwen Bagni. She previously wrote screenplays and episodes of various TV series (including "FOUR STAR PLAYHOUSE") with her husband, John Bagni- who died the previous February. She later wrote further screenplays and scripts for TV series [and adapted Skip & Gloria Fickling's "Honey West" for Four Star Television in 1965], often with her second husband, Paul Dubov.
I've been watching the Loretta Young shows, adore them, it's when decency meant something. Just found this. The 50s, when women dressed like ladies and men had the ability to act like a gentleman. Both a lost art.
Yes. The 1950s were great for women. They couldn't own property in some states. They couldn't get credit in their own name. And were looked down upon if they worked outside of the home or were single past their early 20s.
I assume the name "Four Star Playhouse" was used because the 4 stars shown at the beginning took turns appearing in different episodes...I was wondering why Dick Powell, Charles Boyer and David Niven were shown in the credits when it became clear after awhile that they weren't going to show up in this program.
The whole Cinderella thing is so played out...and this outing is not only unoriginal, it's lame. The fantasy of "shop girls" being courted by wealthy men...while the real, honest, hard working men don't get their due.
He's crying for his mother, I'm crying for the civilization we've thrown away as represented by this nice normal entertainment. Not much like Sex in the City, is it!
@@kathleenking47 I remember it well. They still should. Hollywood is run by shocking degenerates but for many years they had no choice but to produce quality cinema.
