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Summertime (Episode 161) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky
When it came time make the film of Arthur Laurents successful play The Time of the Cuckoo, the natural casting choice was Shirley Booth, who won a Tony for the Broadway production and had an Oscar for the 1952 film Come Back Little Sheba. But producers felt she was too old and not enough of a box office draw. Director David Lean was determined to get Katherine Hepburn and the star needed little convincing. As her love interest, he cast Italian Rossano Brazzi. Future Night Stalker star and suffering Dad in A Christmas Story Darren McGavin made his film debut in the small role of a philandering…
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