"The Road," in which Loretta Young plays an unhappy woman whose life is forever changed by an enigmatic hitchhiker, served to launch the seventh successful season of the NBC anthology The Loretta Young Show. Other worthwhile episodes this season include "Mask of Evidence," one of Young's rare forays into damsel-in-distress territory in which she finds herself at the mercy of a masked lunatic; "The Lady in the Fish Bowl," co-scripted by Marilyn Cantor (daughter of Eddie Cantor) and Fred Ebb, the plot of which would be later incorporated into the Broadway musical Cabaret, likewise coscripted by Fred Ebb; and one of an increasing number of the series' social problem entries, "Unmarked Brown Wrapper," directed by actor Richard Carlson and starring Bethel Leslie as an innocent young woman victimized by a pornographer. Season seven concludes with a two-parter, "The Eternal Vow," a romantic drama in which Loretta Young is teamed with dashing Gallic leading actor Jean-Pierre Aumont.
by Hal Erickson
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