Daisy, Daisy (TV play)

"Daisy, Daisy (TV play)"
Playwrights '56 episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 5
Directed byArthur Penn
Teleplay bySumner Locke Elliott
Original air dateNovember 22, 1955 (1955-11-22)
Running time60 mins
Guest appearances
  • Tom Ewell as William Bingham
  • Jane Wyatt as Glenda Bingham
  • Al Checco as Trigger Fogel
  • Agnes Doyle as Mrs. Mays
  • Edith Meiser as Mother-in-law
  • Jane Moultrie as Rosy Sedgewick
  • James Reese as Adrian Terhune
  • Lou Vernon as Mr. Smith

Daisy, Daisy is a 1955 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott that aired as an episode of Playwrights '56. It was based on the Ern Malley hoax making the play one of the few works on American television at the time to draw inspiration from Australian culture.[1]

  1. ^ Vagg, Stephen (September 11, 2022). "Forgotten Australian TV Plays: Australia on US TV – Sumner Locke Elliott's Wicked is the Vine and The Crater". Filmink.