What Makes Sammy Run?: Part 2
- Episode aired Oct 4, 1959
Sammy's irresistible rise to Hollywood success continues.Sammy's irresistible rise to Hollywood success continues.Sammy's irresistible rise to Hollywood success continues.
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Did you know
- TriviaAround 1956, Eddie Fisher and his agent Lew Wasserman were discussing roles for Fisher's acting debut. A project being discussed at the time was "What Makes Sammy Run?" by Budd Schulberg and Stuart Schulberg. Fisher wanted to play aggressive producer Sammy Glick, "the ultimate Jewish hustler. I knew a lot of real Sammy Glicks and I felt confident that was a character I could play." Lew Wasserman decided that the character was too much of a classic negative Jewish stereotype and that it would be bad for Fisher to play it. So Fisher went in the complete opposite direction (in retrospect, perhaps too far) with then-wife Debbie Reynolds in the squeaky clean comedy that Fisher hated, Bundle of Joy (1956), a film made to capitalize on the birth of their daughter, future Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) "Princess Leia" Carrie Fisher. The Schulberg project "What Makes Sammy Run?" was eventually produced in 2 parts for this show, episodes #1.2 and #1.3.
- Quotes
[last lines]
Al Manheim: [speech slightly slurred from drunkenness; standing at edge of a desk at which Sammy Glick is seated] You always think you can stop me, Sammy. Year after year, you've been choking me off whenever you want. Well wait and see. I'm gonna finish that play. I'm gonna call it, "Success," or, "What Makes Sammy Run?" Big question. What makes Sammy run?
Sammy Glick: Sure, Al, but that's not the question...
Al Manheim: I've gotta know. I've got to find the answer to that question once and for all. I've gotta know.
[leans down and over the desk to be almost face-to-face with Sammy]
Sammy Glick: Sure, Al, sure. But what about the other question? The real question? What makes you, and you
[looks toward Kit Sargent]
Sammy Glick: , and all the rest of you, run after me? Now you think about that when you sober up. You think about that, Alsy Palsy
[leans forward, puts his face closer to Al's and lightly, patronizingly, slaps his face]
Kit Sargent: We have to live with that, Sammy. But at least we live.
Sammy Glick: [jerks his head back as his eyes widen; turns and stares at Kit, is momentarily frozen in place, then slumps back in chair and droops his shoulders; stares straight ahead as his face hardens; leans forward again, begins talking in a rapid monotone to his assistants, going over a list of tasks without stopping to take a breath, ignoring Al and Kit as they turn to walk out; pauses] Well
[pauses]
Sammy Glick: I gotta run.
- tavm
- May 11, 2010