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Twenty-two of Kathleen Hite's Gunsmoke scripts were directed by Harris. A bigger mystery than the fact that Harris sometimes affixed a Jr. to his name and at other times did not, is that when Kathleen Hite wrote a script & Harry Harris directed it, the episode was almost always... magic. Season 7
Kathleen Hite's films include Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Waltons, Wagon Train, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Tea Time We use cookies to ensure that we give you the ...
Kathleen Hite began her long and successful career in radio and television following her graduation from the University of Wichita (later Wichita State University) in 1938; she worked at Wichita radio station KANS from 1943-1950. She then moved to California and was hired as a secretary at CBS.
So you can catch all the references. This episode of the Lux Summer Theatre aired on August 3, 1953, when Kathleen Hite's relationship with CBS radio was several years old. Hite playfully drops a number of words and phrases which are obviously intended. to be in-jokes with her CBS pals, e.g. escape, Kansas, Princess Theatre, reconquer the West ...
Which others among Hite's one-hour scripts were adaptations, is subject to opinion and argument. Quint-Cident is clearly a development of the script for Woman at Horse Creek, a Fort Laramie episode which aired on February 12, 1956. Elements of Gilt Guilt clearly originate from Scurvy, a Fort Laramie episode which aired on August 26, 1956.
One of Kathleen Hite's first blips on the radio radar, "The Man From Cairo" (January 1, 1950), is an adaptation 'from a story by' her. It is an episode of Rocky Jordan, an early 50s regrouping of elements that had earlier coalesced in the middle 40s as A Man Named Jordan, and cannot seem to be anything else but appropriated from Casablanca (1942).
Photos. Kathleen Hite began her long and successful career in radio and television following her graduation from the University of Wichita in 1938; she worked at Wichita radio station KANS from 1943-1950. She then moved to California and was hired as a secretary at CBS. She was eventually hired as the network's first female staff writer.
