1952
30m

Summary This show featured four rotating stars, Charles Boyer, David Niven, Ida Lupino, and Dick Powell in individual episodes consisting of everything from comedy to drama. View more details

1952
30m

Four Star Playhouse

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : David Niven Ida Lupino Dick Powell Charles Boyer

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7.5

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Genres : Comedy Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 24, 1952

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Republic Studios - 4024 Radford Avenue, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Four Star Productions

Summary This show featured four rotating stars, Charles Boyer, David Niven, Ida Lupino, and Dick Powell in individual episodes consisting of everything from comedy to drama. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 24, 1952

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Republic Studios - 4024 Radford Avenue, North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Four Star Productions

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David Niven and Barbara Lawrence in Four Star Playhouse (1952)

Robert Nichols in Four Star Playhouse (1952)

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Episode 1 • Sep 24, 1952

My Wife Geraldine

A man learns that he is suspected of murdering his wife, whom he now claims never existed.

Episode 2 • Oct 08, 1952

Dante's Inferno

Willie Dante owns a bar and gambling house called Dante's Inferno. One night, the wife of an acquaintance tells Willie that her husband has threatened her. Willie comforts her and sends her home, but she turns up dead the next day.

Episode 3 • Oct 22, 1952

The Lost Silk Hat

A refined man stands outside of a home trying to convince strangers who pass by to retrieve his silk hat from inside the house.

Episode 4 • Nov 05, 1952

Backstage

A well known actor encounters a woman attempting suicide by jumping off a bridge. He persuades her to let him put her up at a hotel for the night, but he accidentally provided fake stage money for her room.

Episode 5 • Nov 19, 1952

Welcome Home

A notorious criminal returns to his home town after 15 years away, and a young man wants to join him in notoriety and, probably, death at the hands of police.

Episode 6 • Dec 03, 1952

The Island

A doctor caring for natives on a tropical island is dismissed by the bully owner of the island who discovered a discrepancy in his medical past. Suddenly, the owner is struck with acute appendicitis and the just-fired doctor is called to perform emergency surgery.

Episode 7 • Dec 17, 1952

The Officer and the Lady

A reformed pickpocket in Paris obtains the purse of an attractive woman. He reads a letter telling about her dying son, and he decides to grant the boy's wish to meet his father.

Episode 8 • Dec 31, 1952

Knockout

A young man follows a quick trajectory from beginning boxer to the middleweight championship match. The night before the championship fight, he learns that the match is fixed, with him as the chosen winner.

Episode 9 • Jan 14, 1953

The Man on the Train

William encounters an old acquaintance, John Dwerrihouse, on a train with 75,000 pounds. Only later did William learn that Dwerrihouse had disappeared four months earlier after embezzling 75,000 pounds from the train company.

Episode 10 • Jan 28, 1953

Trail's End

A famous marshal of Dodge City sets out in search of the murderous Sonoma Kid and runs into a tragedy of the desert.

Episode 11 • Feb 11, 1953

Sound Off, My Love

A woman with a reputation of being hard of hearing secretly gets a hearing aid, and starts overhearing people making fun of her. Everyone knows her husband is having an affair, but she also discovers that he is trying to kill her.

Episode 12 • Feb 25, 1953

Man in the Box

Theater-goers are surprised to see actor Victor Sherman at the play, considering what happened a year earlier. As the play proceeds, the man in the box imagines himself playing each of the characters in the drama being performed onstage.

Episode 13 • Mar 11, 1953

No Identity

Mitch Carver befriends and eventually adopts an orphan boy. Mitch's wife is pregnant with their first child, and she treats the boy as a threat to the natural family that she wants to have.

Episode 14 • Mar 25, 1953

The Man Who Walked Out on Himself

After separating from his wife, a wealthy clubman is about to marry a much young woman -- whereupon his mirror image walks out on him in disgust.

Episode 15 • Apr 22, 1953

The Last Voyage

A sea captain on his final voyage learns that there is a bomb on his ship, timed to go off soon after reaching port.

Episode 16 • May 06, 1953

Night Ride

On a late night subway car, five passengers try to determine which of them is a homicidal maniac, the subject of a city-wide manhunt.

Episode 17 • May 20, 1953

Ladies on His Mind

A psychiatrist listens to his female patients go on about their troubles. As they talk, he imagines himself within each of their stories.

Episode 18 • Jun 03, 1953

To Whom It May Concern

A bank employee mails a letter to his boss confessing to stealing $7000 and includes the stocks he bought with the money. As he puts a gun to his head, he sees in the paper that the stocks' worth have gone through the roof. Now he wants to live and goes on a frantic chase to get the letter back from the post office before it gets delivered.

Episode 19 • Jun 17, 1953

Shadowed

Burt Stroude is about to be chosen as the party's senatorial candidate. At the same time, he hears from the married woman he'd had an affair with in his youth. She's dying and wants him at her bedside, but going to her would destroy his political career and possibly his marriage.

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