Mrs. Patterson

Season 7Episode 2575 minJun 17, 1956
Mrs. Patterson

A play about race and adolescence set in the Deep South of America about 1920, written by African-American painter-playwright Charles Sebree and Greer Johnson.

Eartha Kitt stars as Teddy Hicks, a poor, illegitimate, black 15-year-old who spends her time daydreaming about living a life of luxury like her mother's wealthy and well-travelled white employer, 'Mrs Patterson'. But the daydreams can't suppress the reality of her life as a teenage girl in a Kentucky shanty-town and she agrees to run off to Chicago with Willie B., the boy-next-door.

This production was something of a landmark in an era when plays on British television were almost exclusively written by white authors and performed by white actors. (1956)

Mrs. Patterson has aired on Jun 17, 1956 at 8:30 PM
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