The Twilight Zone: Young Man's Fancy
02:00 am - 02:30 am, Thursday, January 15 on Syfy HDTV ()
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Young Man's Fancy
Season 3, Episode 34
A newlywed (Phyllis Thaxter) is distressed by her husband's refusal to let go of his boyhood. Alex: Alex Nicol. Wilkinson: Wallace Rooney. Mother: Helen Brown. Host: Rod Serling.
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1962
English
HD Level Unknown
Sci-fi
Anthology
Suspense/thriller
Cult Classic
Cast & Crew
Phyllis Thaxter
(Actor)
.. Virginia
Alex Nicol
(Actor)
.. Alex
Wallace Rooney
(Actor)
.. Wilkinson
Ricky Kelman
(Actor)
.. Alex (age 10)
Helen Brown
(Actor)
.. Mother
Rickey Kelman
(Actor)
.. Alex (age 10)
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Did You Know..
Phyllis Thaxter
(Actor)
.. Virginia
Born:
November 20, 1921
Died: August 14, 2012
Died: August 14, 2012
Trivia:
The daughter of a Supreme Court judge, Phyllis Thaxter followed the example of her mother, a former actress. Thaxter made her first stage appearance, at the Ogunquit (Maine) Playhouse. In her teens, she received on-the-job training with the Montreal Repertory. On Broadway from 1938, she appeared in such popular plays as What a Life!, There Shall Be No Night, and Claudia. Signed to an MGM contract in 1944, Phyllis was often wasted in traditional faithful-wife roles, but on occasion was permitted a wider acting range in such parts as the schizophrenic heroine of Arch Oboler's Bewitched (1944). While at MGM, Phyllis married James Aubrey, who later ascended to the presidency of CBS-TV (and still later, took over MGM); the union lasted until 1962, producing a daughter, actress Skye Aubrey. Sidelined by an attack of infantile paralysis in 1952, Thaxter made a slow, steady stage, screen and TV comeback in character parts, frequently accepting roles that would challenge her physical limitations. In 1978, after a long absence from the screen, Phyllis Thaxter was cast as Martha Kent, mother of Clark Kent, in Superman: The Movie. She made her last on-camera appearance in a 1992 episode of Murder, She Wrote.
Alex Nicol
(Actor)
.. Alex
Born:
January 20, 1919
Died: July 29, 2001
Died: July 29, 2001
Trivia:
On stage from the age of 19, American actor Alex Nicol toiled away in supporting roles for nearly a decade, his Actors Studio training often serving him well in helping him make something out of nothing. Nicol enjoyed a good run in the 1949 Broadway smash South Pacific, albeit in a role consisting of no more than four lines. Things perked up when he made his first film, The Sleeping City, in 1950, after which Nicol concentrated upon movie parts calling for shifty villainy. He worked in both Hollywood and England, with time out for TV assignments, including an oddly delineated role as a grown-up Mamma's boy on the 1962 Twilight Zone episode "Young Man's Fancy." Nicol had accrued enough capital in the late '50s to begin directing as well as starring in films. Some of his projects were tawdry little items like The Screaming Skull (1958), but at least one Nicol-directed film, And Then There Were Three (1962), proved that a singular talent had been wasted in Hollywood. And Then There Were Three, a no-budget war film, scored on its grittiness and spontaneity; unfortunately the film was not given a general release, and began circulating only when sold to television in 1965. Alex Nicol added to his directing credits by helming a few network TV series in the '60s, often through the auspices of Universal, his home studio as an actor in the '50s.
Wallace Rooney
(Actor)
.. Wilkinson
Born:
December 29, 1910
Ricky Kelman
(Actor)
.. Alex (age 10)
Helen Brown
(Actor)
.. Mother
Born:
December 24, 1915
Rickey Kelman
(Actor)
.. Alex (age 10)
