Behind the Scenes

TV Movie
1955
30m

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Sally Fraser starred in the 'Behind the Scenes' pilot as the somewhat naive yet impulsive Sally Smith. Jil Jarmyn played her more level-headed friend and roommate Jill Butler. Both young wom... Read allSally Fraser starred in the 'Behind the Scenes' pilot as the somewhat naive yet impulsive Sally Smith. Jil Jarmyn played her more level-headed friend and roommate Jill Butler. Both young women were living in Hollywood, hoping to become actresses. Lizz Slifer played Mrs. Fackert, ... Read allSally Fraser starred in the 'Behind the Scenes' pilot as the somewhat naive yet impulsive Sally Smith. Jil Jarmyn played her more level-headed friend and roommate Jill Butler. Both young women were living in Hollywood, hoping to become actresses. Lizz Slifer played Mrs. Fackert, who ran the apartment building where they lived. In the pilot, after a famous Hollywood wr... Read all

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Sally Fraser

Sally Smith

Jil Jarmyn

Jill Butler

Elizabeth Slifer

Mrs. Fackert

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This half-hour sitcom pilot, 'Behind the Scenes', was just one of several television projects Republic Studios hoped to get on the air during 1955. The movie studio set up a subsidiary, 'Hollywood Television Service', in 1950 to distribute its films to TV. A second subsidiary, 'Studio City Television Productions', followed in 1953. The first TV series produced by Studio City and distributed by Hollywood TV Service was 'Stories of the Century', which debuted in syndication in the spring of 1954. 'Behind the Scenes' was one of six TV shows from Hollywood Television Service advertised in 'Television Magazine's September 1955 issue. The others were 'Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe', 'Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu', 'Stories of the Century', 'Stryker of Scotland Yard', and 'Frontier Doctor'. Of the six, 'Behind the Scenes' was the only one that never made it past the pilot stage. Hollywood TV Service was apparently unable to find a network for the series. In fact, with the exception of Commando Cody, all of its TV series were syndicated. It's unknown whether the company attempted to syndicate 'Behind the Scenes' when it was unable to sell it to one of the networks.