"Six O'Clock Call"

Beloved writer, director, producer and actor Gertrude Berg stars in this light comedy as a widow who claims to her astonished family that she speaks to her deceased husband on the phone every Sunday at precisely 6 p.m.  Variety proclaimed the production as “a fine show in every department,” while singling out Berg's performance of “thought and substance... in the Bronx-type groove.”

Reproduced from 16mm kinescope.  Director: Alex Segal.  Writer: James Yaffe.  Cast: Gertrude Berg, David Opatoshu, Gloria Stroock, Michael Wager, Robert Ellenstein, Janet Fox, Louis Sorin.

Related materials

New York Times advertisement for "Six O'Clock Call," dated February 1, 1955

Variety advertisement for U.S. Steel Hour, dated January 5, 1955

Variety advertisement for U.S. Steel Hour, dated March 9, 1955

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