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Fred MacMurray

Peter Terrance

Marilyn Erskine

Margie Terrance

Jimmy McHugh

Jimmy McHugh

Veda Ann Borg

Jo Hadley

William Traylor

Peter Terrance Jr. - At 22

Carolyn Craig

Janet Owen

Harry Lauter

Truck Driver

Duncan Richardson

Peter Terrance Jr. - At 13

Jerry Mathers

Peter Terrance Jr. - At 5

Frank Sully

Husky Driver - Diner Patron

Claude Binyon

Self - Introduction

George DeNormand

Mocambo Patron
(uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Mocambo Patron
(uncredited)

Terry Frost

Diner Patron
(uncredited)

Joe Garcio

Diner Patron
(uncredited)

Herman Hack

Diner Patron
(uncredited)

Darla Hood

Vocalist
(uncredited)

Diane Jergens

Vocalist
(uncredited)

Director
- Claude Binyon
Writers
- Claude Binyon
- William R. Cox
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Trivia
Singing "On the Sunny Side of the Street" is Darla Hood, best known as for her roles in the Our Gang comedies of the 1930s.

Quotes
Peter Terrance: "I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby" - is that supposed to be in the new marriage ceremony? That's... that's not life, honey - that's just a song! People don't have to eat in songs.

Connections
References Penny Serenade (1941)

Soundtracks
It's a Most Unusual Day
Music by Jimmy McHugh
Lyrics by Harold Adamson
Performed by Jana Lund

Fred MacMurray and Marilyn Erskine go to a show at the Mocambo. It features songwriter Jimmy McHugh at the piano, playing his old hits. As he does, MacMurray and Miss Erskine reminisce at the events of their lives together.

This episode of SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE is an effort by Claude Binyon, a competent if rather unremembered screenwriter and director. Like most of his work, it's derivative, with a structure that suggests George Stevens' PENNY SERENADE -- if you're going to steal, steal from best, say I.

McHugh was a very popular songwriter from the 1920s through the 1940s, with several songs among the Great American Songbook. Several of them show up here.