"Misalliance" was an American television play broadcast live on October 29, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was the third episode of the fourth season of Playhouse 90 and the 120th episode overall.
Plot The plot concerns the rivalry between the aristocracy and middle class as played out between an English country gentleman, his family, an airline pilot, a passenger, and a socialist.
Cast
Production John Houseman was the producer, and Robert Stevens was the director. Meade Roberts wrote the teleplay based on George Bernard Shaw's play Misalliance.
Reception Critics were divided in their reviews of the production.
Cynthia Lowry of the Associated Press described it as "so full of plot that I still don't know what went on."
Fred Danzig of the UPI called it "delicious" and praised the "clever cast."
In The New York Times, Jack Gould panned the production as "dated" and "strained". He concluded that "the deluge of words" left one "too limp to worry about the plot." He also noted that the cast "raced through its lines at breakneck speed but without scant fair or flavor."
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