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The Fountain of Youth (Orson Welles, 1958) - unsold Pilot.

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The Only Unsold Pilot to ever win a Peabody award.

The Fountain of Youth is a 1956 TV pilot for a proposed Desilu TV series (with a tentative title, The Orson Welles Show) which was never produced, and was subsequently televised once, on September 16, 1958 for NBC's Colgate Theatre. The short film was directed by Orson Welles,based on the short story "Youth from Vienna" by John Collier, and stars Joi Lansing and Rick Jason as a couple faced with an unavoidable temptation concocted by a scientist (Dan Tobin). Welles himself is also much in evidence as onscreen narrator. The show won the prestigious Peabody Award in 1958 after its single broadcast.

Cast:

Dan Tobin as Humphrey Baxter Joi Lansing as Carolyn Coates Rick Jason as Alan Brody Nancy Kulp as Stella Morgan Billy House as Albert Morgan Marjorie Bennett as Journalist (uncredited) Orson Welles as Host / narrator

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountain_of_Youth_(film)

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