Screen Directors Playhouse
(1955–1956)
A daydreaming man discovers that his imagined adventures are happening in real life.
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Title: Life of Vernon Hathaway (09 Nov 1955)
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| Alan Young | ... | Ernest Stockhoeffer aka Vernon Hathaway | |
| Cloris Leachman | ... | Irma | |
| Jay Novello | ... | Lucius Morley | |
| Douglass Dumbrille | ... | Red Beecham (as Douglas Dumbrille) | |
| Raymond Bailey | ... | Howard Barnes | |
| Florenz Ames | ... | J.B. Vandemeer | |
| Susan Morrow | ... | Gloria Smith | |
| Herb Vigran | ... | Stranger with $1000 | |
| Roy Glenn | ... | Train Porter | |
| Norman Z. McLeod | ... | Himself | |
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A daydreaming man discovers that his imagined adventures are happening in real life.
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9 November 1955 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Hal Roach Studios - 8822 Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USACompany Credits
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Ernest Stockhoeffer lives a dull life in a small, dull town. When a man who shoplifted a watch from his shop ten years earlier atones by giving him a thousand dollar bill, Ernest realizes it, stops the express train to go down to Miami and live a little and winds up bluffing his way into success.
Screen Director's Playhouse was a very good anthology series, but this is one of the weakest entries and it is not helped much by Alan Young's washrag characterization of Stockhoeffer and his alter ego, Vernon Hathaway. Director Norman McLeod could direct a great comedy given a script or talented comics -- he managed to direct the Marx Brothers in two of their more chaotic Paramount comedies -- but can't do much with the script of this one.