MAX LIEBMAN PRESENTS: THE FOLLIES OF SUZY (TV)

Summary

One in this irregularly scheduled series of special presentations of musical comedies and revues. In this original television musical comedy, playwright George Randolph suffers initially from writer's block as he tries to construct a play around a ballerina, Suzy who inhabits his dream world. George falls in love with Suzy. George is having trouble with his play and Suzy advises him. In one of the settings for George's play, Suzy works at gangster Lilac Louis's cabaret, where she sings "You're Driving Me Crazy"; a jealous George transports Suzy to a college social, where she dances to Paul Whiteman's Band playing "Moanin' Low," and a shy college boy sings "Take a Lesson from a Little Bird."

In a hazing by senior women, freshman Suzy is forced to imitate a fish, bird, duck, rabbit, frog, and train. After Suzy sings "There's a Little Bit of Bad in Every Good Girl," she confronts George for removing her from love scenes; George agrees to write a love scene for Suzy and sets the scene at Rector's Cafe in 1910, where the floor show concludes with "Be My Little Baby Bumblebee." As George writes and corrects his scenario, the characters Suzy and Rudolph Ravenswood mime their romantic tete-a-tete in a private dining room at Rector's; and George writes a big finale. Includes commercials.

(Sections of this asset are not shown in chronological order.)

Details

NETWORK: NBC
DATE: October 23, 1954 9:00 PM
RUNNING TIME: 1:29:29
COLOR/B&W: B&W copy of a color telecast
CATALOG ID: T82:0340
GENRE: Music
SUBJECT HEADING: Musical revues, comedies, etc.; Dance
SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1954-1956
COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Oldsmobile

CREDITS

Max Liebman … Producer, Director
Bill Hobin … Associate Producer, Director
William Friedberg … Writer
Fred Saidy … Writer
Neil Simon … Writer
Will Glickman … Writer
Bill Jacobson … Writer
Charles Sanford … Conductor
Rod Alexander … Choreographer
Lee Bowman … Host
Ed Herlihy … Announcer
Zizi Jeanmaire … Cast, Suzy Roget
Steve Allen … Cast, George Randolph
Dick Shawn … Cast, Lilac Louis
Tom Avera … Cast
Jean Eliott … Cast
Harrison Muller … Cast
Cliff Norton … Cast
Connie Russell … Cast
Paul Whiteman … Cast