Play of the Week The Rope Dancers (Season 1, Episode 23)
TV Episode | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Play of the Week

The Rope Dancers (Season 1, Episode 23)

TV Episode | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

"To work is to pray," the harsh-tongued Margaret Hyland maintains to her young daughter Lizzie in their bleak tenement apartment. Lizzie, a frail child, mysteriously kept out of school because she is "sick," listlessly praises her mother's...See more"To work is to pray," the harsh-tongued Margaret Hyland maintains to her young daughter Lizzie in their bleak tenement apartment. Lizzie, a frail child, mysteriously kept out of school because she is "sick," listlessly praises her mother's hard work and cleanliness. But when Lizzie is alone and her father, estranged from his wife,appears, she runs joyously to him. Though jobless and hungry, the father loves life and all the "smells of humanity." The play was produced on Broadway in 1957. See less

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9 cast members

Name	Known for
Jacob Ben-Ami Dr. Jacobson Dr. Jacobson See fewer	Green Fields (1937)
Joe Boland Police Officer (as Joseph Boland) Police Officer (as Joseph Boland) See fewer	Shadow of the Cloak (1951)
Audrey Christie Mrs. Farrow Mrs. Farrow See fewer	Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Joseph Julian Actor Actor See fewer	Dark Shadows (1966)
Walter Matthau James Hyland James Hyland See fewer	The Odd Couple (1968)
Siobhan McKenna Margaret Hyland Margaret Hyland See fewer	Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Fran Myers Clementine (as Frances Myers) Clementine (as Frances Myers) See fewer	Days of Our Lives (1965)
Eugene Peterson Moving Man (as Gene Peterson) Moving Man (as Gene Peterson) See fewer	The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Judy Sanford Lizzie Hyland Lizzie Hyland See fewer	Play of the Week (1959)