Howard Lindsay and Dorothy Stickney appear in a scene from Life With Father, a play adapted by Lindsay and Russel Crouse from Clarence Day’s autobiographical essays. The scene is introduced by Oscar Hammerstein II. Lindsay and Stickney created the roles of Father and Vinnie in the original production of the play, directed by Bretaigne Windust, which opened in New York in 1939 and ran for 3,224 performances, making it the longest-running straight play in the history of Broadway. This performance was originally seen on The Ford 50th Anniversary Show, directed by Jerome Robbins and simulcast by CBS and NBC on June 15, 1953:
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