Three years after this episode of "Four Star Playhouse" a very similar but much darker film came out with the same sort of plot. In "Marjorie Morningstar", a young lady insists that a guy who plays the piano at a cheap camp was too much of an artist for such mundane work and she got him to take a leap of faith and try his hand at Broadway. In this episode, an equally wide-eyed and overly optimistic young lady, Germaine (Gloria Talbott) insists that a commercial artist, Charles (David Niven) is just too good for that sort of thing and should be a serious artist. The main difference between the film and this episode is that the film had a much more morose quality about it and this show is played mostly for laughs. Additionally, Charles has a wife (Barbara Billingsly) and she tries to keep him more or less grounded despite dippy Germaine's insistence he should be something more than he already is.
This is a pleasant but otherwise unremarkable episode. Good...but not much more and the actors mostly give it there best. As for Talbott, I thought her character was too broadly written and a bit tough to believe at times.
This is a pleasant but otherwise unremarkable episode. Good...but not much more and the actors mostly give it there best. As for Talbott, I thought her character was too broadly written and a bit tough to believe at times.