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James Arness, Ginger Rogers, Carol Channing, and Barry Nelson in The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)

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Ginger Rogers and Carol Channing jokingly called this "Death of a Saleslady", claiming that it was a terrible picture.
Though he made nearly one hundred movie and television appearances, Barry Nelson (Charles Masters) was most renowned in theater circles for his uncanny ability to "freeze" a performance following a show's opening, and play it exactly the same, beat for beat, for the duration of the run. This was especially evident when he was cast in a comedy, as he was able to garner laughs in the same places, performance after performance, even when the vehicle ran several years.
As of 2019, this movie has never been released in any home video format (Beta, VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, or Blu-ray) in the U.S., and can be seen only intermittently on Turner Classic Movies.
This is the second credited movie role of Clint Eastwood (Lieutenant Jack Rice). His first was Francis in the Navy (1955), where he played "Jonesey".
Ginger Rogers quipped that this movie shut down R.K.O. Radio Pictures (it was the last movie produced by that studio). This very slight Western comedy went unremarked upon by contemporary movie critics at The New York Times.

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