Maytime in Mayfair

This film received a landmark color television presentation in Philadelphia, Saturday 6 October 1956, on WFIL (Channel 6), as Ford Film Playhouse's promotional introduction to the new line of 1957 Fords; at this time color TV was still in its infancy, usually limited to special presentations, most often on the National Broadcasting Company's affiliated stations, of which WFIL was not the local representative. Vintage feature films, which may have been original filmed in Technicolor, even comparatively recent ones like this one, which was only seven years old at the time, were not considered worthy of this special treatment, with added costs passed along to the sponsors, so were normally only shown in B&W. In this case, since the film was of British origin, there was not the problem of all the automobiles being of noticeable vintage, since British automotive styles were less familiar to American audiences, and more difficult to date. However, the years had not been kind to the so-called "New Look" women's fashions of 1948-1949 so prominently displayed, and which by 1956 had long since become the "Old Look."

When Janet tells Eileen that Mr. Keats and Mr. Shelley are in the office with Michael, Eileen asks who they are. Yet, she saw a telegram just the day before from Keats and Shelley to D'Arcy about their buying Michael's dress shop for a trifle.

Opening credits: MAYFAIR a District in the Heart of London MAYFAIR FOUNDED in 1750 by Thomas Howard ! MAYFAIR CONFOUNDED in 1920 by Michael Arlen !! MAYFAIR DUMBFOUNDED in 1948 by Sir Stafford Cripps !!!

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