Philco Television Playhouse
Three Cornered Moon
Season 1, Episode 45 · Aired 1949-08-28
Synopsis
Nellie Rimpleger tries to hold together her eccentric family (including her children, saucy daughter Elizabeth, law student Kenneth, and Eddie, a would-be actor) after they lose their fortune in the stock-market crash. While Elizabeth works in a shoe factory and tries to help her brothers find jobs, she falls in love with a melancholy writer, but marries a wealthy doctor.
In the series
This episode is part of Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1955) on NBC.
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