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January 1957 - September 1958 / CBS
As a film actress, Ida Lupino was known as the "Queen of the B's" and "the poor man's Bette Davis". But she was much more than that and she wanted creative control to shape her own film projects to prove it. This was at a time when only a couple of women had ever directed a motion picture and few women were taken seriously at all in the business.
While continuing to play the sultry roles the studios offered her, Lupino began writing, producing, directing and starring in films for her own production company in 1948. These noir films are well-regarded today, tackling issues that Hollywood wouldn't - like unwed mothers and rape.
In
1951, Ida Lupino married her co-star (from 1949's 'Woman in Hiding') Howard
Duff. The next year she embarked on a new career in the fledgeling television
industry, at first as an actress on dramatic anthology programs like 'Four
Star Theater'.
By 1955, Lupino was directing TV series episodes, eventually directing dozens of programs over the next fifteen years - shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Donna Reed Show, Gilligan's Island, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables and The Fugitive.
In
1957, Lupino stopped making movies and teamed with her husband Howard
Duff to star in a novel sitcom, Mr. Adams
and Eve, the everyday story of a movie star couple living in Beverly
Hills. Lupino wanted the show to have a ring of truth to it, exagerated
slightly for comic effect.
The result was a hilarious and stylish sitcom, a wonderful send-up of Hollywood in the Fifties - that golden time when women were are dolled up with no place to go.
'Howard
Adams' and his wife 'Eve Drake' are sheltered celebrities, and the show
follows their awkward attempts to relate to real life as they see it -
dealing with agents, outlandish productions, directors and studio heads.
The supporting cast featured Hayden Rorke
('I Dream Of Jeannie') as their manager, Alan Reed ('The Flintstones')
as the studio head and Olive Carey as sassy live-in maid Elsie.
Olive
Carey was excellent in her role as the sarcastic live-in housekeeper
who ran the Drake household. In real life, Olive was married to cowboy
star Harry Carey & is the mother of Harry Carey, Jr (from Spin & Marty).
She
only appeared in one other TV program as a regular, the 1960 syndicated
series 'Lock-Up'.
Despite a brilliant cast, stylish art direction and clever scripts (many by Sol Saks), Mr. Adams and Eve made it through only two seasons on CBS. Maybe the show was too "inside" for fifties' audiences. Few TV shows have ever centered around the entertainment industry and the ones that did generally failed (ie: 1969's Bracken's World).
Howard Duff went on to become a regular on a number of series, including three years on Felony Squad and one year stints on Flamingo Road, Knots Landing and Dallas. He died in 1990.
After the series cancellation, Ida Lupino made memorable guest appearances on a wide variety of programs, including roles on Alias Smith and Jones, Batman and The Wild, Wild West. She also returned to making motion pictures in 1966.
Ida Lupino retired in 1978 at the age of 60. She died due to a stroke on August 3, 1995 at age 77.
Jeff Vilencia writes:
"It sure would be cool to see more Mr.
Adams & Eve!
"One day I got a phone call from the office of Fredrick DeCorva (producer at the time of the Carson 'Tonight Show'). A few weeks earlier I sent him a VHS copy of 'Mr. Adams and Eve' (he produced the series). He wanted to thank me, and to talk about that show! He says the two season negatives are in legal problems in somebody's estate, which is why the show has not been seen for years in syndication. He also sent me an 8x10 autograph photo, which was cool.
"The other people who have a video copy of that film is the Museum Of Broadcasting in NYC. I made them a video master in 1986, UCLA now has the original reel of film, which I gave them. One day DeCorva's office calls me, and asks if I would be so kind to phone the American Cinematheque, they were doing a special tribute to Ida Lupino.
"Cool, I call them, they want to use the episode along
with the one Twilight Zone that Ida Lupino was in. They had contacted
CBS and the network told them they couldn't locate a copy of Mr Adams
& Eve, so I shipped them a copy!
"They have the tribute, and a week later the CBS legal department calls me, and they ask if I was the one who "licensed" the show to them to use? Having worked in this stupid biz, I was keen on wordings, I said, "No" I let them use my private copy. I don't own the rights to the show. There was no money etc - etc - etc! They asked how I got a copy of the show? I told them, back in the 70's when I was in high school, I knew people who worked in television film exchange and the print was a discard. They asked me if I had the rest of the 2 seasons? I said no, just this one episode.
"As
it turns out, they couldn't even find the 35mm film negatives to the series!
I don't know to this day if they ever found them. Just like 'The Goldbergs'
shows, nobody knows what happened to the 35mm film negatives.
"So the history of Hollywood Television seems to have gone the same way as the old movies in the 20's - lost, thrown away, misplaced."
Jerry is considered an intelligent, worldly, capable man whose familiarity with mystery stories should leave him a worthy amateur detective. Pamela is characterized as a simple-minded, naive wife, like so many other women on TV in the '50s. She is presented as reasoning illogically, as well as acting plain foolishly. Sometimes she just doesn't grasp her husband's reasoning or is dismissed for following her own women's intuition. But much like George Burns' character to Gracie, Jerry loves Pam and her notions even if they are beyond his understanding. What makes this show interesting however, is that it is Pam who most often solves the crimes and identifies the guilty persons in each week's episode!
It is Pam with her particular perspective that sees what the other's don't. Never at the expense of her husband's pride nor played for humor, Pam solves these crimes doing what her husband and police Lt. Weigand don't do. It is not that they couldn't solve the crimes, but it is Pam who usually does it first.
Pam is able to determine what is evidence, listen to testimony, and put the pieces of the crime together by using her particular skills. These same skills often irritate and annoy Jerry in other circumstances and sometimes appear illogical to him. For example, she pays attention to the smallest of details, she's aware of facial expressions and gestures as people talk, she listens to how people talk and hears more than just facts, as other's speak. She is sensitive to how people relate to each other and can feel people's emotions and passions. It is these particular qualities, arguably referred to as feminine skills that give Pam the advantage over the others in crime solving.
As a housewife, Pam finds excitement and adventure in the mysteries that they become involved in. She often mulls over clues and evidence while her husband Jerry tries to focus on his publishing business or goes to sleep at night. Also, she is willing to go to dangerous lengths to find more evidence or pursue her latest theory. Jerry often warns her with reasons why she shouldn't take so many risks or tries to convince her that what she does is too dangerous for her. But she can't be held back, often resulting in Jerry and Lt. Weigand's participation in her sometimes outlandish plots to catch a culprit. Her actions are usually overlooked by the police, she's an unthreatening presence and calls no attention to herself. They are frequently too concerned with their own procedures and methods to mind what she is doing. But it is Pam who most often points out and provokes a confession from the perpetrator.
More than one captured criminal admits that they underestimated Pam's abilities. Perhaps this is typical of the expectations for womanhood in general, at that time. Mr. & Mrs. North may be an insignificant program when considering the history of television but it was present none-the-less, although for only 2 short years. At the least, it provided an image of a capable woman contributing significantly to society's betterment, even if she is under appreciated. It would be another decade before television would see its first female private detective in Honey West which lasted just one season. And, it would be the '70s before TV viewers would become more familiar with seeing women in crime-solving roles such as Police Woman and Charlie's Angels.
This show's influence can be seen in later crime-solving, husband/wife programs, most notably The Thin Man, McMillan and Wife, and Hart to Hart. Actress Barbara Britton later appeared in the pilot show, Head of the Family opposite Carl Reiner, that was eventually developed into The Dick Van Dyke Show. And, actor Richard Denning is well remembered for his role as Governor Philip Grey on the long-running, Hawaii Five-O.
She is 11 years old and was paralyzed witha "spinal stroke". 4 1/2 month later she walks, runs, plays!!!
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