The Shadow of a Man

"The Shadow of a Man"
Studio One episode
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 42
Directed by	James Sheldon
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Based on	novel by May Sarton
Original air date	July 20, 1953 (1953-07-20)

"The Shadow of a Man" is a 1953 American television play based on a 1950 novel by May Sarton. Its starred French actor Claude Dauphin who was appearing on Broadway in The Happy Time.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Premise

A Bostonian man travels to Paris and falls in love with a friend of his mother.

Cast

Claude Dauphin
Douglas Dick
Lydia St Clair

Reception

The Independent called it "a truly adult production and one of which Studio One can long be proud."^[4]

1950 Version

The play had been filmed by Studio One in November 1950 with Ilona Massey. Sumner Locke Elliott also did that adaptation.^[5]^[6]

Boston Globe wrote "the time was well spent and the result well worth the effort."^[7]

References

^ "French star on Studio One". The Niles Daily Star. 20 July 1953. p. 5.
^ "Shadow of Man Studio One offering". The Indianapolis News. 20 July 1953. p. 23.
^ "Backstage with New York TV star". The Idaho Statesman. 26 July 1953. p. 28.
^ "Clickin the channels". The Independent. 22 July 1953. p. 11.
^ Australian Broadcasting Commission. (22 July 1950), "Radio ROUNDABOUT", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1503355882, retrieved 26 September 2024 – via Trove
^ Ross reports on television programming. 27 November 1950. p. 4.
^ "TV Diary". The Boston Globe. 28 November 1950. p. 47.

External links

"The Shadow of a Man" at IMDb
"1950 Studio One version" at IMDb

v t e Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels	Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) Some Doves and Pythons (1966) Edens Lost (1969) The Man Who Got Away (1972) Going (1975) Water Under the Bridge (1977) Signs of Life (1981) About Tilly Beamis (1984) Waiting for Childhood (1987) Fairyland (1990) Radio Days (1993)
Plays	The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937) Interval (1939) The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940) Goodbye to the Music (1942) Your Obedient Servant (1943) The Invisible Circus (1946) Wicked Is the Vine (1948) Rusty Bugles (1948) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
TV scripts	Wicked Is the Vine (1949) The Crater (1949) Pengallen's Bell (1949) Of Human Bondage (1949) Jane Eyre (1949) The Willow Cabin (1950) The Passionate Pilgrim (1950) The Shadow of a Man (1950) Little Women (1950) The Rose Garden (1951) The Devil in Velvet (1952) The Thin Air (1952) Dusty Portrait (1952) Miss Hargreaves (1952) We Were Children (1952) Elegy (1953) Wish on the Moon (1953) Before I Wake (1953) The Shadow of a Man (1953) The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Moment of Panic (1954) Friday the 13th (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Run Girl Run (1954) The Women (1955) Beloved Stranger (1955) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Peter Pan (1955) Daisy, Daisy (1955) You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) Keyhole (1956) Company Manners (1956) Peter Pan (1956) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) Whereabouts Unknown (1957) Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957) Babe in the Woods (1957) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Winslow Boy (1958) We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958) The Laughing Willow (1958) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US) Peter Pan (1960) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust) The Prisoner of Zenda (1961) Notorious (1961) Spellbound (1962)
Adaptations	Rusty Bugles (1965) Water Under the Bridge (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
Radio	Crazy Family (1939) Tradesman's Entrance (1941) Jezebel's Daughter (1941) Grand City (1942) Girl of the Ballet (1942) The Man in the Dark (1944) The Army Hour (1944) Lily Parker (1947) Scarlet Rhapsody (1947) Wicked Is the Vine (1947) Ride a Cock Horse (1948) The Crater (1948) The Rose Garden (1950) Dusty Portrait (1953) The Thin Air (1954) We Were Children (1954) Friday the 13th (1955)