A degree of verisimilitude also characterized the half-hour comedy "Peter Loves Mary," which ran on NBC airing in 1960-61. He then walked onto the set, where his talents were showcased along with those of the two hosts. Each episode opened with a shot of the guest star on the telephone explaining to someone off-camera that he could not have dinner that evening because he was going to Peter and Mary's house. A replica of the stars' New Rochelle, New York, home provided the setting for 'The Peter Lind Hayes Show", which ran on NBC in 1950 through 1951. The popular comedy team Healy and Hayes gained television fame during the infancy of the television medium's golden age, when husband-wife acts, notably "George Burns and Gracie Allen" and "Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz" had strong appeal. George Chakiris was featured as a dancer. Peter Lind Hays portrayed August Zabladowski. Bartholomew Collins, the boy, was portrayed by actor Tommy Rettig. Healy, as Heloise Collins, portrayed the boy's mother. T," a 1953 musical fantasy film based on a story by Theodor Seuss Geisel about a boy who hates practicing piano and dreams he has been taken to an island where he is forced to play on a giant keyboard with 499 other captive children. Extending Healy's career from stage to the movies, with husband Peter, she co-starred with Hans Corned in "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. Mary Healy with her husband Peter Lind Hayes returned to Broadway in 1958 to star in the Leland Hayward produced original comedy written by Norman Krasna, with incidental music by Bernard Green, "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With" at the Martin Beck Theatre, opening 03 March, closing 30 August 1958 (208 performances). The 1946 Orson Welles "Mercury Theatre Production" was based on the Jules Verne novel about an adventurer who circumnavigates the globe in 80 days. Aouda in Orson Welles' production for Broadway, an original Cole Porter composed Extravaganza musical production of "Around the World", opening 31 May, closing 03 August 1946 (75 performances), a role that she would reprise for Orson Welles' the "Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air" radio adaptation of the musical play. In 1945, Mary appeared in the original play "Common Ground", opening 25 April, closing 23 June 1945 (69 performances). opening October 08, closing Novem(61 performances), opposite Charles Butterworth and Jean Arthur. Mary made her Broadway stage debut (at age 24) in the musical, revue, comedy "Count Me In". Mary Healy went on to appear in four Broadway productions between 19. "Hey, kids, let's get together and put on a show!" That's the idea behind this raucous spoof about a vaudeville performer who goes to college to spy on her bratty son. In 1941, after marrying Peter Lind Hayes, Healy co-starred with her husband and his mother Grace Hayes in the musical comedy film "Zis Boom Bah". Mary Healy sang the the title song composed by Alfred Newman. The comedy was based on Linda Darnell's early experience in Hollywood with William Gargan, in the role as the movie's film studio executive producer Dan Wharton, a parody of the producer Darryl F. Healy, at age 22, appeared in the film comedy "Star Dust" (1940) starring Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young, Charlotte Greenwood, George Montgomery and William Gargan. After a bit part in the 1938 feature "Thanks for Everything", she earned her first major film role in the 1939 musical comedy "Second Fiddle," which starred Sonje Henie, Tyrone Power and Rudy Vallee. She made her first screen appearance in "Josette" (1938). Two years later, a 20th Century Fox talent scout heard her sing at New Orleans' Roosevelt Hotel, put her on a train to Hollywood. In 1935, she was 17 when she became Miss New Orleans. Mary Healy, born in 1918 in New Orleans, was the youngest of four children of John Joseph Healy and Viola Armbruster.
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