Episodes Fathers and Daughters A Gift of Love The Tent Dwellers Going Home
Fred Astaire makes an agreeable appearance as an old pool shark with a heart condition. His sister considers him to be a reprobate but he's beloved by another sister, his daughter, (Laura Devon), who has become a nun. To add to the pathos, the nun is dying of leukemia. Harry Morgan, another beloved performer shows up as the manager of a disabled boxer Fred befriends.
One aspect of this episode brought home the passage of time and human mortality. It is remarked that the nun is young and beautiful, and so she is, because Laura Devon was at the time. He was 34 when this was filmed. She's one of the top beauties of 60's television. She later married the famous film composer Maurice Jarre, (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago), and retired from show business. Her last credit was in 1967. She died 40 years alter at age 76. She has some scenes with the also young and beautiful Lee Kurty, playing the head nurse at 26, who died 44 years alter at age 70 of dementia. But here they are young and beautiful, the way we should remember them.
Fred Astaire makes an agreeable appearance as an old pool shark with a heart condition. His sister considers him to be a reprobate but he's beloved by another sister, his daughter, (Laura Devon), who has become a nun. To add to the pathos, the nun is dying of leukemia. Harry Morgan, another beloved performer shows up as the manager of a disabled boxer Fred befriends.
One aspect of this episode brought home the passage of time and human mortality. It is remarked that the nun is young and beautiful, and so she is, because Laura Devon was at the time. He was 34 when this was filmed. She's one of the top beauties of 60's television. She later married the famous film composer Maurice Jarre, (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago), and retired from show business. Her last credit was in 1967. She died 40 years alter at age 76. She has some scenes with the also young and beautiful Lee Kurty, playing the head nurse at 26, who died 44 years alter at age 70 of dementia. But here they are young and beautiful, the way we should remember them.
