This runs an hour so you probably won't want to watch it through to conclusion. But you might enjoy a few minutes of a live TV presentation of one of my favorite plays, June Moon by Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufman. The original production, directed by Mr. Kaufman, debuted on Broadway in October of 1929. It's the story of an idealistic young writer of song lyrics who meets up with reality (and romance) when he goes to New York and its famed Tin Pan Alley.
The play was a modest success and represented a personal high point for Lardner, who was and still is hailed as one of America's great humorous writers. His career was mostly in sports writing and short stories and having a play on Broadway was a long-held dream. He hoped to do more but died in 1933 before that could happen.
This TV version was done on June 2, 1949. The play has been chopped down to an hour but other than that, they don't seem to have done great damage to it and some of the performances are quite good. The first actor you see on your screen is a (then) newcomer named Jack Lemmon. He would go onto bigger and better things…