“The White Widow”
“The White Widow”
Season: 3 episode 19
Series Episode: 72
Air Date: January 24, 1960
Maverick TV series starring James Garner and Jack Kelly
A Warner Bros. production
Teaser
The local banker asks Maverick for protection.
Cast & Crew Lists
Cast
Character Role Actor Actor Age Status
Bart Maverick Gambler / Con artist Jack Kelly 32 Credited
Joe Barnes Fairview Hotel night desk clerk C. (Charlie) Bell 51 Credited
Cosgrove Mayor of Fairview / Poker player smoking cigar Ross Elliott 42 Credited
George Manton Owner of the Fairview hotel / Poker player in dark suit with black neck tie
Richard Webb 44 Credited
Jim Vaughn Sheriff of Fairview / Poker player in white coat Don Kennedy 39 Credited
Wilma "The Widow" White President of the Bank Julie Adams 33 Credited
Pilar Wilma White's maid Pilar Seurat 21 Credited
Depot agent Charles S. Buck 31 Credited
Bartender Lee Turnbull 33 Credited
John Brinks Fairview bank teller Jack Bryan 51 Credited
Announcer Ed Reimers 57 Uncredited
Bart's horse Sickle Uncredited
Kibitzer with the black hat and white shirt Clyde Howdy 38 Uncredited
3 Kibitzers Uncredited
Man who gets the sheriff Tom Kennedy 32 Uncredited
Townsman Jack Lilley 26 Uncredited
Townsman Joe Walls 43 Uncredited
Mr. White Wilma White's deceased husband' Mentioned
Drummer Mentioned
Crew
Director Leslie Goodwins
Assistant Director Richard L'Estrange
Developed by
Roy Huggins (uncredited)
Teleplay Leo Townsend
Story Coles Trapnell
Executive Producer
Wm. (William) T. Orr
Producer Coles Trapnell
Director of Photography
Ray Fernstrom, A.S.C.
Art Director
John Ewing
Supervising Film Editor
James Moore
Film Editor
Robert Watts
Production Manager
Oren W. Haglund
Sound Francis E. Stahl
Set Decorator Jerry Welch
Makeup Supervisor Gordon Bau, S.M.A.
Composer: Original Theme David Buttolph (uncredited)
Original Theme Lyrics Paul Francis Weber
Stock Music Composer Max Steiner (uncredited)
Music Supervisor Paul Sawtell / Bert Shefter
Music Editor Charles Paley
Musician: Harmonica Tommy Morgan (uncredited)
Production Company
Warner Bros. Television
Distribution Company
American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Dialogue/Figurative Language/Literary References/Quotes
George Manton: What’s the old saying about squeezing blood from a stone?
“They must have had abilities inherent in them or they could not have been excited, according to that common observation, that it is impossible to get blood out of a stone.”
Vicesimus Knox in Winter Evenings, 1788
Bart Maverick: Do you see the sky with all those clouds in it. They’re all mine. I own them.
Jim Vaughn: The mayor’s unlucky at cards. I don’t know whether the rest of the old saying is true or not.
Referencing the idiom: “Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.”
Notable Mentions
Geographic References
Fairview, Missouri, United States of America
The Games People Play
Bart Maverick: Sometimes a man likes to sit down and play cards and know he’s not going to lose his shirt, Mr. Mayor; or offend the man he wins from.
Grub
Coffee
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