This tool is unavailable at the moment. Please try again later.
Start planning your production with a cost estimate you can save and share with your team. Just answer a few questions.
This estimator is only for amateur productions. Professional customers should contact the Licensing department directly to enquire about a title's availability: [email protected]
Important: The cost quoted is an estimate only and may differ when you apply for a licence.
A SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. TITLE
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 3w, 9m
Norman Barasch, Carroll Moore
George Kimball mistakenly overhears his doctor discussing another patient with heart trouble, and thus prepares to meet the end bravely. Putting his affairs in order, he arranges a good second husband for his soon-to-be widow, with a cemetery plot for three: himself, his wife and the new future 'Mister Kimball'.
The 1964 movie adaptation starred Rock Hudson and Doris Day.
David Wayne starred on Broadway as George Kimball, a Westchester commuter whose favorite hobby is hypochondria. When he mistakenly overhears his doctor discussing another patient with heart trouble, he prepares to meet the end bravely, sure it it 'his time'. Putting his affairs in order, he writes a heartbreaking letter to his wife to be read as his eulogy. He even arranges a good second husband for his soon-to-be widow, with a cemetery plot for three: himself, his wife and the new future 'Mister Kimball'.
Judy Kimball George Kimball Dr. Morrissey Vito Bert Arnold First Passerby Second Passerby Mr. Akins Miss Mason Baby Third Passerby
The living room of George Kimball's suburban home over a holiday weekend.
by Laura Wade
Laura Wade