U.S. Steel Hour: "Six O'Clock Call" (2/1/1955)

U.S. Steel Hour: "Six O'Clock Call." Original air date: February 1, 1955.

Beloved writer, director, producer and actor Gertrude Berg stars in this light comedy as a widow who claims to her astonished family that she speaks to her deceased husband on the phone every Sunday at precisely 6 p.m. Variety proclaimed the production as “a fine show in every department,” while singling out Berg's performance of “thought and substance... in the Bronx-type groove.”

Reproduced from 16mm kinescope. Director: Alex Segal. Writer: James Yaffe. Cast: Gertrude Berg, David Opatoshu, Gloria Stroock, Michael Wager, Robert Ellenstein, Janet Fox, Louis Sorin.

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