Matinee Theatre - Season 2 (1956)

A bride brings her British artist husband to her mother's home and he can't decide whom he loves most his wife or his mother-in-law.

A Dixieland trumpeter trades off his father's fame as a jazz virtuoso.

A devoted housemaid tries as a ghost to do what she failed to do as a person - resolve the complex love life of her mistress.

Drama of the pain suffered by a teenager when her parents decide on a friendly divorce.

College officials want a local attorney to help whitewash a fatal hazing incident.

The hand of a pretty young woman is sought by a strange trio of rivals - two young men and a ghost.

A young woman is taken by her mother on a trip to Spain so that the daughter might forget her suitor.

A young chemist is torn between devotion to the scientific side of his profession and the financially profitable side.

Willie is a refugee who works as a houseman at a professor's home. He's a sweet and lovable man even when he's interfering in other people's lives. The Professor's daughter is in love with Brad, a young lawyer. Of course, Willie sees fit to give Brad all kinds of advice.

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An exiled empress commits her son to a princess, only to learn that he secretly has long been in love with an actress.

A professional loafer and an amateur inventor accidentally discovers how to make gold synthetically.

The story of a non-heroic World War II amputee who plays the role of a hero so completely that his fiancee leaves him in disgust.

A pleasant man plans to do away with his two spinster sisters.

A young girl learns of life and love from a spinster school-teacher.

A young woman's happy marriage is upset by the ghostly reappearance of a former soldier sweetheart, supposedly dead.

A college graduate fails so miserably at taking over his father's business that his wife tries to use a college reunion to find him a new career.

A young playboy can only defend himself against a murder charge by revealing his father's past.

A grandmother with illusions of youthfulness, and an aging son with illusions of talent, are jarred into reality by one of grandma's old flames.

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy come to live nearby, the Bennets have high hopes. But pride, prejudice, and misunderstandings all combine to complicate their relationships and to make happiness difficult.

A Riviera based girl tries to help her millionaire boyfriend retrieve a $300,000 pearl necklace from his fourth ex-wife.

A schoolteacher, long cured of kleptomania, seems to suffer a relapse.

An egotistical 18th-century Englishman repeatedly walks the thin ice of first wooing, then jilting, his fiancees.

A teenage daughter tries to provide her father with the companionship she thinks he needs.

A beautiful young owner of a haunted castle undergoes matchmaking by the ghosts.

Because of her husband's brutality, a young backwoods bride is forced by flee to home of her jealous sister.

A man hospitalized following an accident also suffers from trying to follow in his father's footsteps. A kindly nurse tries to help him live his own life.

The friendliness of a middle-aged woman is rebuffed by the glamorous new tenant across the hall in the apartment house. In spite of the cool reception, she tries to learn all she can about this mysterious woman.

A stepmother, bent on finding out more about a prospective son-in-law, finds herself faced with unexpected problems.

A charming young housewife struggles with finances to help her husband earn his Ph.D. She quickly accepts a highly lucrative offer from a cosmetic firm to pose as the mythical French namesake for their brand of make-up.

The patriarch of a Scandinavian immigrant family resists change, even down to keeping a gramophone for entertainment and horse team to plow his field. When he dies, his son becomes just as rigid and tries to continue on with the old ways.

A former medical student returns to Germany after a long interment in Russia where he had performed hundreds of operations.

A young boy proves a disappointment to his athletic-minded father, because he prefers books to sports.

Four impoverished Italian peasants become bitterly divided over whether to plow a field that has just been returned to them or let it remain the cemetery of a Canadian soldier who helped win it back for them from the Fascists.

In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.

A young couple who are pushed into marriage by their parents discover on their honeymoon that they have nothing in common.

When a man loses his position, his dignity and now his health, there is no alternative when things are so hopeless, or is there? Just ask his sister-in-law and wife.

A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

A post office clerk dreams of striking out on his own as a professional photographer, but lacks the courage. He also lacks the courage to propose to the girl he's been dating.

During the war the British War Office assigns a woman to work with a French contact to aid English soldiers and fliers in escaping occupied France.

The true story of Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. Braille discovers a method whereby those who cannot see will be able to learn to read by touch.

A tale of the mythical country of Laurania and the battle between its ruthless dictator, Molara, and its popularly elected liberal emissary, Savrola.

After many years, a woman returns to the scene of a love affair. She is disturbed when her daughter becomes involved in a romance much in the same way her mother did years before.

A wealthy American courts a beautiful compatriot now living in Paris. Though she is attracted to him, she hesitates to seek a divorce from her present husband, because she fears he will reclaim custody of their little son.

A young musician returns to his home town as choir director. The only person who does not resent the ambitious young man's methods is the town's woman librarian.

For the first time in years a women's college breaks precedent by hiring a young bachelor professor. Because of the scarcity of men in the vicinity of the college, the professor becomes the center of attention, not only for the students, but for the women faculty members as well.

The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.

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With their children married, a middle-aged couple hope to live alone, independent of their offspring. One crisis leads to another until the parents find themselves practically supporting both couples and their newborn children.

Suspects in the murder of a domineering old woman include her son, her nurse, a tutor with a prison record, and even her 11-year-old grandson.

An eccentric matriarch plans to hold her own funeral while she and her cronies are still alive.

The story of a wife and lover who successfully dispose of the woman's husband, but then must battle their own consuming feelings of guilt. Set in 19th century Paris.

A woman risks losing her chance of happiness with the only man she has ever loved.

A teenage boy, unhappy because of a broken home, gets into trouble for stealing a car.

The story of a romance between a non-Jewish American veteran of World War II and a half-Jewish concentration camp survivor.

Father Moynihan finds himself face to face with the challenge of the younger generation when Jenny, the orphaned teen-aged niece of his housekeeper, comes to live at the rectory.

The spoiled young daughter of a prominent southern family discovers she is suffering from leprosy.

When a little boy runs away from home, both parents assume he'll return by nightfall. When the youngster doesn't show up, they blame each other for his leaving.

A professor of psychology fails to understand why he has been unsuccessful in using psychology to win his lady love.

Captain Brassbound, a vindictive sea captain, swears revenge on a visiting Englishman whom he blames for his mother's death.

An aspiring violinist and his father disagree over the son's ability as a musician.

A wealthy industrialist offers to revive a small town's dwindling industry, but his ruthless business dealings threaten to ruin the town banker. Citizens are forced to choose between the banker and the industry the town needs so badly.

A man suffers a heart attack and must ask for his incompetent brother's help with the business.

A young spinster searches for something that will move her cautious suitor to propose marriage.

The story of an older girl's rebellion against a strict household that she mistakenly thinks is being regimented by her outwardly stern grandmother.

A young heiress becomes engaged to her cousin. Her father is against this union and insists that it can only end in tragedy. Then, she finds out he's bankrupt.

The story of a family Christmas reunion that is suddenly marred by the disclosure that one of the family's sons, a college basketball star, has accepted a bribe to throw a game.

Louisa May Alcott's autobiographical account of her life with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts in the 1860s. With their father fighting in the American Civil War, sisters Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are at home with their mother, a very outspoken women for her time. The story tells of how the sisters grow up, find love and find their place in the world.

Story of how a young boy's Yuletide efforts to sell his last three beauty boxes kindles a flame of love in a sweetheart, a wife and a mother.

The adoptive father of a young woman is horrified to learn she plans to marry the son of the man who accidentally killed her aunt years before.

The inheritance of frontier territory prompts an Easterner's struggle with settlers.

A defenseless bachelor trapped by the daughter of a domineering woman until the three differ drastically on New Year's Eve plans.

A young woman is accepted as a frontier doctor, but rejected by the man she loves. She marries, on the rebound, a man of dubious character.

True dramatic story of a Chilean priest's defense before his Bishop of three charges of crime.

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.

A young, deaf sculptor vies with a glib comedian for the love of a dancing girl.

Dramatic tale of a widow who journeys from Texas to France charging that confused reports of her son's death in the war may have been wrong.

A scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma: he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered that if he doesn't get new glands, he will die.

A motherless 12-year-old boy turns to a voodoo woman to break his father's streak of unhappiness.

A woman attempts to conceal her past from the family of her new husband.

New Englander is torn between a career in the sedate family insurance business or raising horses on a Western ranch.

The story of four children who fight back against the domination of their meddling mother.

1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right into the bedroom of his enemy's fiancée.

A problem son, long absent, returns to try to make peace with his relatives.

Two sisters decide to adopt the other's way of life. One of them was a spinster, the other a worldly carnival fortune teller.

A sensitive 11-year-old boy's father is ashamed of him, because of his failure to develop as an athlete.

An ailing boy and his doctor and a captured criminal handcuffed to a police officer are among eight persons thrown together by circumstances.

An able woman fights the battle of career vs. motherhood.

The spoiled scion of an old French family strives to cover his impassioned murder of his American wife by hiding her body in the thirteenth crypt.

When a woman's 'dead' husband returns she refuses to remarry her second until he consents to her niece's wedding.

A habitual practical joker's crowning gag leads to a murder charge against an innocent person.

A poor farm boy's yearning for a college education brings a new life outlook to his hard-pressed father.

An atomic physicist, upon learning that his research has contributed to the incineration of Japanese cities, turns from laboratory to pulpit.

A middle-aged playwright finds that his romance with his young secretary parallels his latest dramatic work, but complicates his personal life.

Things become extremely mixed up when two men, one a singer, the other a look-alike, are pursued by a girl who worships the singer.

An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.

A young man recognizes the man in an FBI reward poster as a friend of his and is tempted to turn him in.

A college professor is striving for free expression during a time when the state is supreme and any individuality has been stamped out.

The formidable Lady Bracknell is quite willing that Algernon shall marry Cecily and her fortune. Jack, however, as Cecily's guardian, refuses his consent unless Lady Bracknell permits his marriage to Gwendolyn.

A Korean orphan boy risks his life for stranded American soldiers.

A tall, gaunt guest in a present-day Catskill Mountain boarding house intervenes in a town crisis and a three-sided romance.

A well-known woman mystery writer believes she has found the way to commit the perfect murder. Unknown to her, a greedy nephew, who stands to inherit her money, plans to make her the victim of her own ingenuity.

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.

A governess battles to save two children from an evil supernatural force.

The true story of beautiful Jennie Jerome's courtship by Lord Randolph Churchill over objections of her father, a celebrated American lawyer and Sir Winston's father, the Duke of Marlborough.

A teenage tomboy finds out it's fun to be feminine.

A teenager meets her famous father for the first time in years and can't understand why her mom ever divorced him.

A 15-year-old boy tries to win the attention of his parents by showing them a gold watch he has stolen. They react by sending him away to a school for problem children.

A spy sent to the Near East by a corrupt oil company is caught by the sultan he is trailing.

A daughter's impending wedding revives old family feuds.

A young army officer meets with tragedy when he attempts to force the secret of winning at cards from an aging countess.

Canon Skerritt finds it impossible to believe that his servant girl has received visitations from St. Brigid.

A comedy about the triumph of an old sea captain over a sadistic spinster sister.

An elderly schoolteacher disapproves of the system of standard education used in his town. He submits a report to the City Council, but it is violently rejected by the members.

A Lapland preacher's pretty young housekeeper falls in love with him. Because he doesn't return her affection, she runs away to New York to begin a new life.

A rather plain girl wins a two-week cruise for two and invites a popular girl from her office to keep her company. But once aboard ship, she is left alone while her friend seeks entertainment with a handsome fellow passenger.

Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that changes him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.

When Evaline's husband is sent to prison, she marries another man. Later, the first husband returns.

The small and obscure town of Ballykilty in Ireland is visited by a mysterious stranger. The man offers to sell the townsfolk shares of heaven with proceeds going to the church in the town.

The true story of the life of Edward HIcks, a man who started out bad, then became a minister and ultimately a famed painter.

Emmy Chase realizes that her husband has time for only one thing, golf. She decides to do something about it.

A confirmed bachelor tries to deflect a pretty girl's love to his best friend.

An intelligence officer goes to Vienna to trace the whereabouts of an atomic scientist who went missing attending a conference.

An amnesia victim traces his own identity after a blow on the head, but psychiatrists tell him it was years of work in dual jobs trying to earn money to "keep up with the Jones'" that prepared the ground for his illness.

An embittered middle-aged Army major takes out a life-long grudge against the Indians, who massacred his family.

A young man searches for the meaning of life and begins a writing career in England.

A small-town girl marries one of her two suitors, only to have the other try to avenge his loss.

A stranger claims that the man the townspeople think committed a murder was miles away at the time of the killing.

The four O'Brien children, ages two to 10, have recently lost both parents. They are sent to stay with a distant relative, Mrs. Johnson.

A young girl is shocked to learn that her mother was the infamous Mata Hari.

A young co-ed is warned by her roommate against dating a handsome young professor. He is suspected of murder.

A Hessian soldier, escaping from the British, makes his way to the Connecticut farm of Aaron Kirkland. There he falls in love with Prudence Kirkland and she with him, even though she's already engaged to Sheriff Thaddeus Jennnings.

Mistreated foundling Heathcliff and his stepsister Catherine fall in love, but when she marries a wealthy man, he becomes obsessed with getting revenge, even well into the next generation.

A woman infatuated with a wealthy man impersonates a French maid in order to get closer to him.

A British soldier has deserted to the tropics where he falls in love with the daughter of the man who is binding him to a life of crime.

Two sisters vie for the attention of an adventurer.

Two scientists are sent to a remote island to work on a secret project.

Jesse, a Kentucky farm boy, begins his new career teaching at the local rural school, a small one-room building in poor state of disrepair.

An outspoken young woman seeks a dowager's approval of her intended marriage to one of the stern old woman's grandsons.

An accidental blindness threatens to disrupt the recent marriage of a young college professor.

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A pretty cub reporter is assigned to interview a mysterious author whom nobody has ever seen.

An elderly matriarch is on death's bed, and her family struggles to make ends meet financially.

A woman's estranged husband defends her boyfriend against a murder charge.

An over-the-hill golf pro can't get it through his head that he's washed up in tournaments.

A University professor flunks a hard-working vet out of postgraduate school just to watch him squirm.

A middle-aged businessman, who has never vacationed farther away than the nearby seaside resort, decides to shoot the works on an African safari.

A supervisor is given a bit of information that could remove one of his aides as a competitor for a choice promotion.

Henry Maurier is smitten by the young Doris, but is that enough motive to murder his invalid wife? Dr. Libbard, a family friend, doesn't think so and finds the true murderer just before Maurier is about to be executed.

A lone newcomer to a western town speaks out against the power wielded by a ruthless rancher. When the man is forced to shoot one of the rancher's henchmen in self-defense, he finds himself on trial in a kangaroo court.

A secretary, planning a vacation on the Riviera, writes to the head of a travel agency with an unusual request. She wants a reliable man to accompany her to the tourist spots and help her spend the money she has saved for the vacation.

A man's genius is overshadowed by the his friend's ambitions. The friend then falls in love with and marries his girl.

A 12 year old resents the fact her widower-father plans to remarry. She and her younger brother plan to stay away on the day of the wedding.

Herbert Kainess is a plain man, a fact which he tells his family repeatedly. Convinced that his family must also be plain, he makes their lives miserable with his selfish demands. Finally his wife decides to do something.

The true story of Anna Dickinson's 19th century rise from obscurity to fame as the first woman ever to address Congress and then of her descent to ignoble confinement in an asylum.

A druggist's dream of being able to afford to go back to school comes true, but falls short of its imagined perfection.

An ambitious assistant district attorney vows to expose the beloved town banker, who has been loosely doling out money for years.

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

There's strong opposition to a general's tactics in handling factory production-line problems.

An American soldier encounters hatred from his former neighbors when he is stationed in the German town in which he was born.

An ambassador's daughter learns that her new fiance is her girl friend's old fiance.

A successful author vows to marry the first girl with love strong enough to start his father's old clock running again.

An old man reminisces about his romance with a young woman named Anne Leete. One day many years ago, she did not appear for their usual rendezvous, and disappeared. Her broken-hearted sweetheart claims he saw her ghost six months later, and he resolves to secure a confession from the man he believes killed her.

A married man and married woman married are thrown together for the duration of a sweltering New York summer.

A widower searches for the son he thought had been killed in the war.

A selfish young woman of 19th century England enters a marriage of convenience with a nobleman she despises, then turns to a warmhearted man she once had rejected.

A trio of airline hostesses decide to take the same first name and pool boyfriends, depending on which girl is in town.

A father must force his boxer son to deliberately lose a title match or face the fists and guns of threatening thugs.

Story of a scheming young blond who challenges a motherly, warm hearted woman for the love of a starving artist.

A father, long divorced, inherits a teen-aged daughter when his ex-wife dies.

A habitually helpful widow houses a couple of homeless souls despite the fact that she, herself, is facing eviction.

Frank Wilson coaches his shy wife on the tricks of being an outgoing dinner hostess trying to impress his boss.

An impoverished Sicilian bridegroom fights with his conscience.

A girl invokes tragedy in order to avoid wearing an ugly dress to the dance.

A large family sacrifices heavily for the sake of their favorite son. When he fails in medical school, the family rebels and demands he be sent to Canada to shift for himself.

Young Tom Cotterell, a rich Texas oilman, is hurt when he is rebuffed by a New York girl, Pamela Wright. Pamela can't stand Tom's crude ways, so he hires a girl to teach him how to be a gentleman.

In ancient Persia, three boys, one of whom is Omar Khayyam, swear a solemn oath. Whoever first gains fame and fortune promises to share his good luck with the others.

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A motion picture producer calls to mind a lost love when he stops off in Chicago on the spur of the moment.

A farmer who has always longed to do something creative decides to put up a lighthouse on his farm even though there is no water for miles around. His shocked wife and daughter fear the man has lost his mind.

A woman copywriter in an advertising agency resents the fact that a younger brother of the firm's top executive is returning from the Army to take over.

A young man pays a visit to the family mansion in Newport, R.I., now presided over by its sole occupant, his aunt.

Madam Brillon becomes a friend and companion to America's first ambassador to France, Benjamin Franklin.

The child star of a TV show has her father convinced she is capable only of angelic behavior. But when the father falls in love with a script girl and decides to marry her, his daughter attempts to cause trouble.

A man who has spent his entire life traveling with carnivals learns that the granddaughter of a woman he had once loved lives in the small town where the carnival has stopped. The girl's fiancee comes to play the shell game with the money the couple have saved for their wedding.

Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends Fortunado and Montresor venture below the city with promises of the rare vintage wine Amontillado. Based on the short story by Edgar Allen Poe, Fortunado and Montresor find themselves in a web of betray and revenge, changing their friendship forever.

A young girl's boyfriend is appalled at the way she plays on people's emotions for monetary rewards. She tries to make him understand that her meager salary will not support her aunt, her uncle and herself. When a rich old man comes to their small village, the girl goes immediately to strike up another friendship.

A student at a military academy makes trouble for a new instructor at the school. He even brags to his friends that he will win the instructor's girlfriend away from him.

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Two good friends who take on jobs as co-sheriffs of a Western town are soon divided by their beliefs. One feels that outlaws should be given the trials they are entitled to by law. But the other is in favor of lynching them on the spot.

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A rebellious girl wavers between the suitor her family picked for her and the choice of her heart.

The story of conflict between a grandfather and daughter-in-law over whether to spare the rod in rearing her son.

A young widow of postwar Germany is forced by poverty to let her son be adopted by strangers, but then realizes she is forced by love to find him.

A boy who loves animals clashes with a father who loves hunting.

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At her 20th anniversary party, a married woman finds herself unaccountably attracted to another man.

The story of an envious lad who finds a chink in the moral armor of a small town's only hero.

An immigrant father arranges to marry off his daughter to a man she has never seen.

A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

A broker switches jobs to an advertising man just to stay near a pretty girl he sees on the street.

A shy, clumsy 16-year-old lad struggles to follow in the footsteps of his handsome, football-hero brother.

A man and a young woman, each harboring private reasons for dreading the limelight of publicity, flee the scene of a plane crash.

A 17-year-old girl fights the domination of a tyrannical aunt with whom she has gone to live.

The long rivalry between two old American families takes a new twist when two of their young, present-day descendants fall in love with each other.

For political reasons, an ambitious district attorney tries to hang a murder rap on a helpless tramp, unaware that a state-assigned defense attorney and the victim's own father might not cooperate.

The seldom-told story of Teddy Roosevelt's first love and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, who died at a tender age.

A young woman accidentally re-meets the man she reluctantly spurned two years earlier.

The story of a young woman who is crippled for life in an auto accident on the eve of her marriage.

A girl's determination to tell the truth leads to complications in her brother's romance with a society girl.

A ship's doctor, vacationing in Las Vegas, risks his life to keep a murder rap from being hung on a pretty nightclub singer.

A pair of city slickers, a pretty young girl and a smooth-Talking man, compete at bilking a country bumpkin of his year's receipts.