Script from <i>The Pruitts of Southampton</i>
date: label: Date made
content: 1966
name: label: associated institution
content: California Bookbinding Company
label: producer
content: Filmways TV Productions, Inc.
label: maker
content: Filmways TV Productions, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>
label: Description
content: This leather-bound script is from Phyllis Diller’s television show <i>The Pruitts of Southampton</i>. The script is for an episode titled “Phyllis Goes Commercial,” which aired in 1966.
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content: </p>
label: Description
content: <p>
label: Description
content: <i>The Pruitts of Southampton</i> was adapted from the novel <i>House Party</i> by Virginia Rowans (pen name for Edward Everett Tanner III, also known as Patrick Dennis). The show began airing in September 1966 and focused on the main character Phyllis Pruitt and her family. After Mr. Pruitt’s death the family learns they owe $10 million in back taxes. The IRS allows the family to continue to live in their mansion in Southampton, and the show followed their wacky attempts at preserving their wealthy image. The show struggled from the start and changed the title to <i>The Phyllis Diller Show</i> in January 1967, also changing the mansion into a boarding house therefore adding to the cast. The last show aired in April 1967 because of poor ratings but also due to Phyllis Diller’s exit from the show. Diller was unhappy with how the show was being run and struggled to find her place in what was her show in name only.
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content: </p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Humor
label: Subject
content: Comedians
label: Subject
content: Television
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Phyllis Diller
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Phyllis Diller
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0289.36
label: accession number
content: 2003.0289
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0289.36
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Script, Bound
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 1/8 in x 8 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 28.2575 cm x 21.59 cm x 1.905 cm