The Last Tycoon (Playhouse 90)

"**The Last Tycoon**"
"The Last Tycoon"
Playhouse 90 episode
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 24
Directed by	John Frankenheimer
Written by	Peter Kortner; Don Mankiewicz;
Based on	The Last Tycoon; by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Original air date	March 14, 1957
Guest appearance
	Jack Palance;

"The Last Tycoon" is a 1957 episode of the American television series Playhouse 90 based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Production

Humphrey Bogart expressed interest in appearing in the production opposite to Lauren Bacall but was ultimately too ill with the cancer that would kill him. The production was filmed in Los Angeles with some location work shot at Malibu Beach.^[1] Director John Frankenheimer recalled:

We didn't try to improve on Fitzgerald. We stopped it where he stopped it. We left it with Monroe Stahr in his beach house knowing he was dying and we closed with a shot of Palance. I think the narrator says that Fitzgerald died before he finished the book. Some of the best dialogue in that show is not Fitzgerald, it's Don Mankiewicz. Jack Palance was superb. I remember that the night before the show he slept in the office because he wanted that office to be so much a part of him.^[2]

Frankenheimer later worked with Palance on The Horsemen (1971).

Cast

Jack Palance as Monroe Stahr
Keenan Wynn as Lou Myrick
Peter Lorre as Pete Zavras
Viveca Lindfors as Kathleen Moore
Lee Remick as Cecelia Brady
Robert F. Simon as Brady
John Hudson as Wylie White
Reginald Denny as Dean
William Roerick as Kellogg
Helen Kleeb as Birdy
Arthur Batanides as Van Dyke
Edward McNally as Whitey

References

^ John Frankenheimer on Playhouse 90 The Last Tycoon
^ Frankheimer, John; Champlin, Charles (1995). John Frankenheimer : a conversation with Charles Champlin. p. 34.

External links

"The Last Tycoon" at IMDb

[1] John Frankenheimer on Playhouse 90 The Last Tycoon

[2] Frankheimer, John; Champlin, Charles (1995). John Frankenheimer : a conversation with Charles Champlin. p. 34.

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