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Title
- Angel. Promise to a friend
Other Title
- Promise to a friend
Summary
- Angelique, known as Angel, moves from France to the United States to marry American architect, John Smith. The newlyweds set up housekeeping in Los Angeles, California. She tries her best to be a good housewife but sometimes runs into problems as she learns English and adapts to her new life and culture. In this episode, Angel's friend Erika is worried about her mother-in-law, who is coming to visit. Erika is a widow and a single mother who works in a nightclub. She thinks her mother-in-law will disapprove, and will try to take her baby. Angel volunteers to take Erika's shift in the nightclub during the mother-in-law's visit, but when Johnny sees the skimpy "uniform" he forbids Angel to go. She agrees to wear a coat over the costume. Johnny acquiesces, but insists on going with her. When the rough customers who patronize the nightclub hear of Erika's problem, they devise a scheme to fool the mother-in-law, but it turns out she only wants to help Erika and her grandchild.
Names
- Oppenheimer, Jess, creator, television producer
- Feldman, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1920-1988, television producer
- Sheldon, James, 1920-2016, television director
- Quillan, Joe screenwriter
- Davenport, William, 1925-1989, screenwriter, consultant
- De Grasse, Robert, 1900-1971, cinematographer
- Molin, Bud, editor of moving image work
- Daniel, Eliot, composer
- Fargé, Annie, 1934-2011, actor
- Thompson, Marshall, 1925-1992, actor
- Singleton, Doris, 1919-2012, actor
- Keefer, Don, 1916-2014, actor
- White, Jesse, actor
- Peters, Erika, actor
- Lorimer, Louise, 1898-1995, actor
- Reeves, Richard, 1912-1967, actor
- Welden, Ben, 1901-1997, actor
- Merrill, Lou, actor
- Burlingame Productions, production company
- CBS Films (1955-1968) production company
- CBS Television Network, broadcaster
Created / Published
- United States : CBS Television Network, 1961-06-14.
Headings
- - Housewives--California--Humor
- - French--United States--Humor
- - Women immigrants--United States--Humor
- - Promises--Humor
- - Friendship--Humor
- - Mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law,--Humor
- - Nightclubs--Humor
- - Gamblers--Humor
Genre
- Situation comedies (Television programs)
- Fiction television programs
Notes
- - LP20029 U.S Copyright Office
- - Copyright: Burlingame Productions, Inc.; 9Jun61; LP20029.
- - Annie Fargé, Marshall Thompson, Doris Singleton, Don Keefer, Jesse White, Erika Peters, Louise Lorimer, Richard Reeves, Ben Welden, Lou Merrill, Larry Marshall, Terry Sue Heide, Rob Barran.
- - Executive producer, Jess Oppenheimer ; script consultant, Bill Davenport ; director of photography, Robert De Grasse ; supervising film editor, Bud Molin ; music by Eliot Daniel.
- - Original broadcast date from donor inventory.
- - Filmed at Desilu Studios, Culver City, California in 1960 or 1961.
- - Episode no. 33 (Internet movie database). Episode no. 31 (donor inventory).
- - Includes commercials for Yuban instant coffee, Johnson's shoe polish, and Post 40% Bran Flakes cereal. Also includes a promo for The Andy Griffith show.
- - Includes two public service announcements: "Help the college of your choice now" from the Council for Financial Aid to Education, and Smokey Bear's "Remember, only you can prevent forest fires" from the USDA Forest Service.
- - Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1960-1969, p. 22; OCLC record no. 818353897; Internet movie database, March 2, 2021; Terrace, V. Encyclopedia of television shows, 1925 through 2010, p. 44 viewed March 2, 2021 via Google books; M/B/RS digital donor inventory (Oppenheimer (Jess) Collection); Hammond times (Hammond, Indiana), June 8, 1961, p. 10, viewed March 2, 2021 via the NewspaperArchive; Independent record (Helen, Montana), June 16, 1961, p. 6, viewed March 2, 2021 via the NewspaperArchive.
Medium
- 1 video file (digital) (29 min.) : sd., b&w.
Source Collection
- Oppenheimer (Jess) Collection (Library of Congress)
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021604016
Online Format
- image
- video
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Contributor
- Burlingame Productions
- CBS Films
- CBS Television Network
- Daniel, Eliot
- Davenport, William
- De Grasse, Robert
- Fargé, Annie
- Feldman, Edward H. (Edward Henry)
- Keefer, Don
- Lorimer, Louise
- Merrill, Lou
- Molin, Bud
- Oppenheimer, Jess
- Peters, Erika
- Quillan, Joe
- Reeves, Richard
- Sheldon, James
- Singleton, Doris
- Thompson, Marshall
- Welden, Ben
- White, Jesse