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Playhouse 90 :: The Greer Case (01x18)

 
Episode Information
 
Title: The Greer Case
Episode #: 01x18
Production Number: 56-18
Original Airdate: Thursday January 31st, 1957
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Writer: Whitfield Cook
 
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A wealthy widow who's dying decides to change her will to leave everything to the child she abandoned years before. When the woman dies before signing the will a lawsuit breaks out between the man claiming to be her son and Harvard University to whom she'd originally left the money.
 
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Guest Stars
 
Guest Stars
Edmund GwennplayedJack BaldwinRecurring (first appearance)
Jane DarwellplayedAnnie JacksonRecurring (second appearance)
Melvyn DouglasplayedHoward HoaglandRecurring (first appearance)
Raymond BurrplayedLester FriedmanRecurring (first appearance)
Zsa Zsa GaborplayedErika SegnitzRecurring (first appearance)
Alan MarshalplayedRaymond Armbruster 
Anita LouiseplayedMabel Seymour Greer 
Philip ReedplayedFrancis Wells 
Una MerkelplayedLouise Hoagland 
 
Episode Notes
 
This episode is based on David W. Peck's 1955 novel of the same name.
 
Edmund Gwenn's most famous role is that of Kris Kringle in the Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street.
 
Raymond Burr would soon afterwards be cast in the title role of the classic CBS legal drama Perry Mason.
 
Melvyn Douglas won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his roles in Hud and Being There.
 
 
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