John G. Stephens

From My Three Sons to Major Dad

My Life as a TV Producer

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the course of his five-decade career in television, John Stephens produced many hit shows, including My Three Sons, Family Affair, Gunsmoke, How the West Was Won, and Simon & Simon. He also produced a number of failures, including The Smith Family (starring Henry Fonda and Ron Howard) and arguably the worst Movie of the Week, the pilot to Wonder Woman (starring Cathy Lee Crosby). Along the way, Stephens encountered the usual-and not so usual-difficulties that accompany work on such projects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9780810852792
• ISBN-10: 0810852799
• Artikelnr.: 21700717

Autorenporträt

John G. Stephens

Inhaltsangabe

Part 0 Acknowledgments
Part 0 Preface
Chapter 1 Martinis and Quaker Oars with Bill Frawley
Chapter 2 Thanks for the Job, Dad!-Barbara Stanwuck and George Sanders
Chapter 3 New York Moves West-Dickie Widmark and Charles Bronson
Chapter 4 Katy Jurado Needs a Job and Tommy Kirk Gets His Start
Chapter 5 The Great Gildersleeve-Unchained and Hall Bartlett
Chapter 6 I Ruin a Preview
Chapter 7 "Why Did You Bring That Bum in Here?"
Chapter 8 Aaron Spelling, Chuck Connors, and Angie Dickinson
Chapter 9 Encounters with Betty White and Tallulah Bankhead
Chapter 10 Keenan Wynn, the Actor and the Writer
Chapter 11 Good Days and Bad Nights on The Millionaire
Chapter 12 Las Vegas with Bob Altman
Chapter 13 How We Filmed My Three Sons
Chapter 14 Casting My Three Sons
Chapter 15 Fred's Frugality
Chapter 16 From Bill Frawley to Bill Demarest
Chapter 17 Three Sons Directors
Chapter 18 Jimmy Stewart at Scale
Chapter 19 My Toughest Show: Family Affair
Chapter 20 Sebastian Cabot and Trailer Sizes
Chapter 21 Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, and Zsa Zsa
Chapter 22 Henry Fonda and Ron Howard: Bullets and Brownies
Chapter 23 John Forsythe and Walter Brennan in Rome
Chapter 24 Lunch with Ray Walston-I Make a Few Mistakes
Chapter 25 Twenty-Five Girls with Beautiful Whats?
Chapter 26 Don Fedderson
Chapter 27 Fred Henry-Brian Keith to the Rescue
Chapter 28 "Garry Marshall's Italian, Brian"
Chapter 29 I Produce TV's Worst Ninety-Minute Movie of the Week
Chapter 30 If the Script is Bad, Filming It Doesn't Make It Better
Chapter 31 Premier Sadat-Gunsmoke's Last Season
Chapter 32 I Help to Put 60 Minutes into Prime Time
Chapter 33 Jim Arness and How the West Was Won
Chapter 34 Season Two of West
Chapter 35 Season Three-Burgess Meredith Needs Toilet Paper
Chapter 36 Marciano and Working with Boxers
Chapter 37 Meeting with Brandon Tartikoff
Chapter 38 Elizabeth Montgomery as Dorian Gray?-I Enter the 25th Century
Chapter 39 The Start of Simon & Simon
Chapter 40 Simon Season Two: Where the Cheapest Becomes the Best
Chapter 41 The Stars Become STARS
Chapter 42 The Enquirer Catches Up with Simon & Simon
Chapter 43 The Stars Strike Back
Chapter 44 A Good Script to Start the Season
Chapter 45 Universal's Suits-the Simon "Bible"
Chapter 46 The Agony and the Ectasy of Locations
Chapter 47 Lucky Luciano: "A True American Hero"
Chapter 48 Gangster Chronicles Goes Down
Chapter 49 Computers, Corey, and Max Gail's Ponytail
Chapter 50 Don Bellisario: A Complicated Genius
Chapter 51 The Nonunion Experience
Chapter 52 I Finally Sell a Show: Major Dad
Chapter 53 The Sitcom World of Today: Not Desi's or Lucy's
Chapter 54 I Become a Pitchman and Strike Out
Chapter 55 My Swan Song
Chapter 56 In Conclusion
Part 57 Index
Part 58 About the Author