Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper

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"Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper"
The Alcoa Hour episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 18
Directed by	Daniel Petrie
Written by	Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air date	June 9, 1957 (1957-06-09)

"Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper" is a 1957 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott which was an episode of The Alcoa Hour. Helen Hayes won an Emmy for Best Actress.

Cast

Kathleen Comegys as Mrs. Millie Roos
Robert Goodier as Roger
Helen Hayes as Mrs. Gilling
Halliwell Hobbes as Doorman
Wilfrid Hyde-White as Gordon
House Jameson as Mr. Mooney
Jack Klugman as George
Leueen MacGrath as Pauline
Joanna Roos as Francine
Katherine Squire as Annie

Reception

Variety argued Hayes "proved abundantly how well she deserves the accolade of “First Lady” of the American stage. In... a slim.but well-thought-out script... she played the role of a stubborn old lady with force and conviction, bringing to the characterization a wholly believable flavor of a 'lost' generation."^[1]

The Boston Globe called it an "inconsequential drama" that Hayes made "absorbing".^[2]

References

^ "Tele follow up comment". Variety. 12 June 1957. p. 43.
^ "Helen Hayes on TV". The Boston Globe. 10 June 1957. p. 37.

External links

"Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper" at IMDb

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)

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