Episode # 5621 SISTER ANN’S CHRISTMAS
(This episode aka THREE, AND TWO PLEASE )
Original airdate: 12-16-56
This is a Christmas story based on the good deeds of a real ‘Sister Ann’, a hospital nurse whose call sign is 'Three & Two".
Loretta Young portrays Sister Ann, the head nurse in a busy Catholic hospital, who works tirelessly to make Christmas merry for two of her more difficult patients - a crotchety old man played by Vaughn Taylor, and a small boy, played by Eugene Martin, who is in despair over the bicycle nobody can afford to buy him.
The reoccurring character of Sister Ann is based on a real nurse Miss Young met while recuperating in an Oxnard, California hospital in 1955. She and Sister Mary Rose remained close friends over their lifetimes.
Vaughn Taylor was a graduate of Northeastern University and the Leland Powers School of Elocution, and also a certified public accountant.
In his youth, he worked in summer stock and on radio. Taylor's film appearances include Jailhouse Rock (1957), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Warlock (1959), The Gallant Hours (1960), The Carpetbaggers (1964), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964), The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966), including an appearance in Alfred Hitchcock's original Psycho playing Mr. Lowery, Marion Crane's employer in a small real estate office.
Among his many television appearances, Taylor was cast in the CBS crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring David Janssen. He appeared in several episodes of CBS's Twilight Zone, and many other series. Taylor died in April 1983 at the age of 73.
Trivia fact: Taylor played the part of Mr. Cartwright in the film version of The Unsinkable Molly Brown. The director of this episode, Richard Morris, wrote the book to the original Unsinkable Molly Brown 1960 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Meredith Wilson.
Eugene Martin was a busy child actor of the era... appearing in the Lassie and Rifleman series, among others.
Ted Stanhope (Dr. Morris) was an Immensely prolific character actor who began his career as 'Ted Strobach' in Hal Roach comedies, starring Charley Chase and Thelma Todd. He also appeared in West Coast theatre productions where he changed his moniker to 'Ted Stanhope' sometime in the 1930's. In 1952, he married Marilyn Maxwell's stand-in, Margaret Roberts. He was known for Leave It to the Irish (1944), The Wild Wild West (1965) and Jungle Hell (1956). Stanhope died on July 10, 1977 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
Directed and written by Richard Morris.
Cast
Sister Ann Loretta Young
Mr. Atherton Vaughn Taylor
Guermo Eugene Martin
Dr. Morris Ted Stanhope
Nurse O'Brien Hope Summers
Nurse Holste Judith Ames
Sisler Verooica Carroll McComas
Father Whelan Pat Lawless
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