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AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE: LOVE AND OTHER SORROWS (TV)
Summary
One in this dramatic anthology series. Based on Harold Brodkey's short story "First Love and Other Sorrows," this program is about a teenage boy, Ben, living in St. Louis during the 1950's, who experiences his first adult lesson about the vagaries of love. While Ben begins experiencing his own awkward fascination with girls, he becomes a spectator in the active social life of his older sister. He becomes frustrated and confused, however, when his mother, a widow with her own fixed ideas about the role of love in marriage, begins to pressure his beautiful sister to marry one of her wealthy suitors, while his sister confesses to Ben her fears about ignoring love for security.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: March 1, 1989 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:09
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:19580
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama; Romance; Teenagers
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1982-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Robert Geller … Executive Producer
- Brian Benlifer … Producer
- Steven Gomer … Director
- Dick Goldberg … Writer
- Harold Brodkey … Based on the short story by
- Richard Robbins … Music by
- Elizabeth Franz … Cast, Mother
- Stephen Mailer … Cast, Ben
- Haviland Morris … Cast, Dodie
- Christopher Collet … Cast, Preston
- Tim Ransom … Cast, Joel
- Sheila Ball … Cast, Eleanor
- Frank Simpson … Cast, Coach Mackyz
- Spencer Garrett … Cast, Sonny
- Talia Paul … Cast, Mary Ann
- Karen Sellon … Cast, Sylvia
- Michael Haley … Voice, Radio Voice
- Dennis Horvitz … Voice, Radio Voice
- Sam Katz … Voice, Radio Voice
- Margaret Leary … Voice, Radio Voice
- Paul Sparer … Voice, Radio Voice
- Kathleen Yates … Voice, Radio Voice