Here’s a brief clip of Ida Lupino and Franchot Tone in the “Award” episode of Four Star Playhouse, aired in 1955 — one of 19 episodes Lupino did for Four Star.

For more on Ida Lupino’s initial foray into television with this show, check out my latest essay, “The Fourth Star”: https://pmbryant.typepad.com/letyourselfgo/2023/05/the-fourth-star.html

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“CAST AS ACTRESS AND DIRECTOR are Ida Lupino and Franchot Tone in ‘Award,’ the play to be staged on Four Star Playhouse at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, over Channel 4. Miss Lupino portrays a Hollywood actress with ambitions to become a stage star. Tone portrays a Broadway director.”

“Award” was first aired on June 30, 1955.

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Ida Lupino in a scene from the Four Star Playhouse episode, “A Bag of Oranges,” aired Jan. 6, 1955. This was Lupino’s sixth episode of 19 she did for the anthology series from 1953-‘56.

“She plays the wife of a condemned man who waits in a bar near the prison and encounters a reporter who is to cover the execution”

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