Born Yesterday

It is good that we have a record from this 1956 Tv production, of Garson Kanin's play more or less how he directed it for the stage ten years earlier.,and with the original Harry Brock role as first played by Paul Douglas who is somewhat less boorish and gangster like than the way it was played in the 1950 film by Broderick Crawford, fresh from his depiction of Willie Stark in All The Kings Men.

Another difference is that the film was carefully paced for laughs so there would be more pauses for some of the dialogue to be better heard by an audience, whereas for Tv viewing the delivery of the lines can be speeded up a bit.

Mary Martin is nowhere near as distinctive as Judy Holliday was in the film and uses a Southern accent (she was born in Texas) as part of the Billie Dawn character's shtick.

The reporter character as played by Arthur Hill is rather more of a nerdy type than the more glamorous William Holden was in the film.