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Joseph Julian

JOSEPH JULIAN  

 Nationality:    USA
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Born in St. Marys, PA. Brought up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended Forest Park High School and Johns Hopkins University. a man of all media, Julian has written for the Theatre Guild~U.S. Steel T.V. Hour and has acted in hun-dreds of other television programs, such as The Untouchables, Perry Mason, alfred Hitchcock, Somerset and The Edge of Night. He has been featured in numerous Broadway plays, including The Rope Dancers and a Case of Libel. In the glory days of radio he performed in over ten thousand dramatic broadcasts, which provided source material for his book. This Was Radio -a Personal Memoir, published by The Viking Press, with an introduction by Harold Clurman.
address (in 1981) : 333 Central Park West, New York, NY 10025 (212) 222-1657 or 582-8800

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below is a list of Joseph Julian's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Act Of Kindness, An         Double Feature         Gimmick, The (A Comedy Of Lies)         Man Around The House, A         Only More So         Presento         See What I Mean         Ups And Downs And Evens

Act Of Kindness, An

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Double Feature

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Gimmick, The (A Comedy Of Lies)

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a clever young copywriter who hates the "lies" of advertising, prevails on his wife to support them while he writes an "honest" play. Money runs out, wife gets fed up. Inspiration! He places ad in newspaper that states simply: "SEND ME a DOLLaR." Seventy-five thoUSAnd people do. Wife accuses him of deceiving all those who have responded. He rationalizes ad as honest because he promised nothing. Finally he is relieved of money by a philosophical gunman pretending to be a U.S. Revenue agent, and recognizes his own self-deception through the slick robber's rationalization of his profession: i.e., important social func-tion of the thief - without them economy would collapse - people would no longer put money in banks, etc.

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Drama, full length

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Man Around The House, A

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attractive widow tries to give young teen-age son moral direction in spite of her own anxieties, confusion and hunger for love. She gives boy conventional answers to his questions about sex, like, "Wait until you get married to a nice girl." She has an affair with an affable policeman who takes an interest in the boy. She accepts him as a representative of authority and moral right. Boy discovers them in bed and accuses his mother of hypocrisy in ad-vice to him. She eventually sees fallibility of policeman (who is married), and realizes one must never abdicate one's conscience to another person. She must work out her own answers.

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Only More So

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a wildly comic satire on our preoccupation with material things. It turns our values upside down in order to get a better look at them. The story dramatizes the life of the world's greatest advertising man as he dictates his autobiography. The highlight of his career is the launching of the enormously popular TV game show, Nationalist Chinese Roulette, where a con-testant loads a revolver with both bullets and blanks, points it at his head and pulls the trigger. The fewer blanks in the gun the greater the prize. Losers are given a decent burial so the viewers won't have that let-down feeling. There is corruption and game fixing which recalls the great TV quiz scandals of the fifties.

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Comic Satire, full length

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Presento

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See What I Mean

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Ups And Downs And Evens

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