More television classics are being released by The Nostalgia Merchant. Four DVDs of Four Star Playhouse are coming out this month. Four Star Playhouse starred Dick Powell.
Born in 1904, Dick Powell was one of the most versatile and handsome movie stars of his or any other generation. His early work saw him as one of Busby Berkeley's favorite crooners in musical classics such as 42nd Street (1933), Dames (1934) and Golddiggers of 1937 (1936). In the late 1940s, Powell reinvented himself as a hardboiled wit in such film noir outing as Murder, My Sweet (1944) and Johnny O'Clock (1947).
Powell's role as a television actor-producer magnate began with the formation of Four Star Productions in 1952. The debut offering of what would become a persuasive and powerful force within the newly developing television industry was the anthology series, "Four Star Playhouse" (1952-1956). Powell oversaw production and appeared as various characters along side alternating stars Charles Boyer, David Niven and Ida Lupino. At the time of this death in 1963, Powell had directed five feature films, Split Second (1953), The Conqueror (1956), You Can't Run Away From It (1956), The Enemy Below (1957) and The Hunters (1958).
Four Star Playhouse - Vol 1: "The Test," "Interlude," "The Lost Silk Hat," "Welcome Home."
Vol. 2: "The Listener," "The Devil to Pay," "Vote of Confidence," "Tusitala.
Vol. 3: "The Girl on the Bridge," "The Gift," "Shadowed," "The Gun."
Vol 4: "Girl on the Bench," "A Place of His Own," "The Adolescent," "The Bomb."
A complete description of these new releases is available on The Nostalgia Merchant web site. Your source for Classic TV and Movies.. Nostalgia Merchant.
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