Run Girl Run

"**Run Girl Run**"
"Run Girl Run"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Directed by	Robert Mulligan
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	December 26, 1954
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"Run Girl Run" is a 1954 American television play. It was devised as a vehicle for Lee Meriwether who was Miss America.^[1]

Premise

The story of an insecure actress who returns to her home town.

Cast

Lee Meriwether
Mary Astor
Lin McCarthy
Robert F. Simon
Margot Stevenson
Ann Shoemaker
Duncan McLeod
Patricia Falkenhain

Reception

Vareity said Elliott "wrote the piece with Miss Merriwether in mind so the role wasn’t too taxing and showcased as a pleasant if not exciting ingenue. The Miss America prize won her a scholarship to the Pasadena Playhouse and her debut shows she had the material to develop."^[1]

The Philadelphia Inquirer said Meriwether was "enormously compelling".^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Tele follow up". Variety. 29 December 1954. p. 30.
^ "Miss America displays talent". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 28 December 1954. p. 18.

External links

"Run Girl Run" at IMDb

[variety-1] "Tele follow up". Variety. 29 December 1954. p. 30.

[2] "Miss America displays talent". The Philadelphia Inquirer. 28 December 1954. p. 18.

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v t e Works of Sumner Locke Elliott
Novels	Careful, He Might Hear You (1963) Some Doves and Pythons (1966) Edens Lost (1969) The Man Who Got Away (1972) Going (1975) Water Under the Bridge (1977) Signs of Life (1981) About Tilly Beamis (1984) Waiting for Childhood (1987) Fairyland (1990) Radio Days (1993)
Plays	The Cow Jumped Over the Moon (1937) Interval (1939) The Little Sheep Run Fast (1940) Goodbye to the Music (1942) Your Obedient Servant (1943) The Invisible Circus (1946) Wicked Is the Vine (1948) Rusty Bugles (1948) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1951) John Murray Anderson's Almanac (1953)
TV scripts	Wicked Is the Vine (1949) The Crater (1949) Pengallen's Bell (1949) Of Human Bondage (1949) Jane Eyre (1949) The Willow Cabin (1950) The Passionate Pilgrim (1950) The Shadow of a Man (1950) Little Women (1950) The Rose Garden (1951) The Devil in Velvet (1952) The Thin Air (1952) Dusty Portrait (1952) Miss Hargreaves (1952) We Were Children (1952) Elegy (1953) Wish on the Moon (1953) Before I Wake (1953) The Shadow of a Man (1953) The Girl with the Stop Watch (1953) Moment of Panic (1954) Friday the 13th (1954) Buy Me Blue Ribbons (1954) The King and Mrs. Candle (1954) Time Bomb (1954) Run Girl Run (1954) The Women (1955) Beloved Stranger (1955) The King and Mrs. Candle (1955) Peter Pan (1955) Daisy, Daisy (1955) You and Me and the Gatepost (1956) Keyhole (1956) Company Manners (1956) Peter Pan (1956) Love at Fourth Sight (1957) Whereabouts Unknown (1957) Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper (1957) Babe in the Woods (1957) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) The Winslow Boy (1958) We Haven't Seen Her Lately (1958) The Laughing Willow (1958) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1959) (US) Peter Pan (1960) The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960) (Aust) The Prisoner of Zenda (1961) Notorious (1961) Spellbound (1962)
Adaptations	Rusty Bugles (1965) Water Under the Bridge (1980) Rusty Bugles (1981) Careful, He Might Hear You (1983) Edens Lost (1989 TV mini series)
Radio	Crazy Family (1939) Tradesman's Entrance (1941) Jezebel's Daughter (1941) Grand City (1942) Girl of the Ballet (1942) The Man in the Dark (1944) The Army Hour (1944) Lily Parker (1947) Scarlet Rhapsody (1947) Wicked Is the Vine (1947) Ride a Cock Horse (1948) The Crater (1948) The Rose Garden (1950) Dusty Portrait (1953) The Thin Air (1954) We Were Children (1954) Friday the 13th (1955)