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Season 2 Episode 23: The Louella Parsons Story

4 SeasonsMar 08, 1956NR1h5.6

Based on incidents in her autobiography, "The Gay Illiterate," the story of Louella Parsons is told in a series of flashbacks, from the early twenties to 1948.

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 2 Public Pigeon #1

2. Public Pigeon #1

Aired: Sep 8, 1955

Red plays a hapless man who is tricked into being a boiler room hustler for p...

Episode 3 Silent Decision

3. Silent Decision

Aired: Sep 15, 1955

A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into hi...

Episode 4 Night of Execution

4. Night of Execution

Aired: Sep 22, 1955

A woman is forced to leave her marriage by her violent, over-bearing husband ...

Episode 5 Sailor on Horseback

5. Sailor on Horseback

Aired: Sep 29, 1955

As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with...

Episode 6 Thin Air

6. Thin Air

Aired: Oct 13, 1955

An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.

Episode 7 House of Shadows

7. House of Shadows

Aired: Oct 20, 1955

A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when ...

Episode 8 Pink Cloud

8. Pink Cloud

Aired: Oct 27, 1955

An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime h...

Episode 9 Schedule to Defraud

9. Schedule to Defraud

Aired: Nov 10, 1955

An insurance underwriter and his secretary are both disgruntled over their du...

Episode 10 A Promise to Murder

10. A Promise to Murder

Aired: Nov 17, 1955

A young lawyer is strangely agitated when his aunt takes up with a palm reade...

Episode 12 A Man of Taste

12. A Man of Taste

Aired: Dec 1, 1955

A cultured Englishman, living in Paris, becomes interested in art for purely ...

Episode 13 The Passport

13. The Passport

Aired: Dec 8, 1955

An American correspondent, assigned to Europe shortly after World War II, is ...

Episode 16 The Prowler

16. The Prowler

Aired: Jan 5, 1956

A rancher's wife is bored with her monotonous life. One night when her husban...

Episode 17 The Hanging Judge

17. The Hanging Judge

Aired: Jan 12, 1956

One of the most despised men in the legal profession clings tenaciously to th...

Episode 19 Gamble on a Thief

19. Gamble on a Thief

Aired: Feb 2, 1956

A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who...

Episode 20 The Fifth Wheel

20. The Fifth Wheel

Aired: Feb 9, 1956

When the local minister buys a used car, he does not realize that bank robber...

Episode 21 Nightmare by Day

21. Nightmare by Day

Aired: Feb 23, 1956

The parents of a recently married young woman, whose husband claims she's tak...

Episode 22 The Sound of Silence

22. The Sound of Silence

Aired: Mar 1, 1956

A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.

Episode 26 Spin Into Darkness

26. Spin Into Darkness

Aired: Apr 5, 1956

After gambling away the money her pilot husband gave her for the down payment...

Episode 27 The Lou Gehrig Story

27. The Lou Gehrig Story

Aired: Apr 19, 1956

Long-time New York Yankee star, first baseman Lou Gehrig battles ALS with the...

Episode 28 Sit Down with Death

28. Sit Down with Death

Aired: Apr 26, 1956

A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.

Episode 29 The Empty Room Blues

29. The Empty Room Blues

Aired: May 3, 1956

When her husband disappears with their savings and their son, a woman fears f...

Episode 30 Flame-Out in T-6

30. Flame-Out in T-6

Aired: May 17, 1956

Ten men are assigned to a drifting ice floe near the North Pole to test the e...

Episode 31 The Shadow of Evil

31. The Shadow of Evil

Aired: May 24, 1956

The unsuspecting girlfriend of a young man whose brother is the head of a Rom...

Episode 32 Figures in Clay

32. Figures in Clay

Aired: May 31, 1956

After agreeing to defend an irrational old man charged with murder, an attorn...

Episode 33 Faceless Adversary

33. Faceless Adversary

Aired: Jun 7, 1956

A man suspected of a young woman's murder denies even knowing her and claims ...

Episode 38 Fear Is the Hunter

38. Fear Is the Hunter

Aired: Jul 12, 1956

A young man comes to the town of Brewster, his car in need of repairs, and is...

Episode 39 Fury at Dawn

39. Fury at Dawn

Aired: Jul 19, 1956

When an atomic bomb mounted on a 200-foot-tall steel tower fails to detonate,...

Episode 42 No Right to Kill

42. No Right to Kill

Aired: Aug 9, 1956

A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the ...

Episode 43 The 78th Floor

43. The 78th Floor

Aired: Aug 16, 1956

On a foggy afternoon just before a plane strikes the Empire State Building, a...

Episode 44 Dark Wall

44. Dark Wall

Aired: Aug 23, 1956

Dr. Giffin patient Margaret Corey presents him with an exceptional challenge....

Episode 45 Bury Me Later

45. Bury Me Later

Aired: Aug 30, 1956

An English vicar believes in the innocence of an artist, thought by everyone ...

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Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres:Drama