March 14, 1957 –
A television adaption for Playhouse 90 of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished last novel The Last Tycoon, (one of the 152 live TV dramas John Frankenheimer directed between 1952 and 1960) starring Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn, Viveca Lindfors, and Peter Lorre premiered on this date.
Fitzgerald’s unfinished Hollywood novel The Last Tycoon was scripted by Don M. Mankiewicz, who had grown up in the novel’s Hollywood setting; he was the son of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz.
The Haus of Dcaligari 