A Thousand Clowns

Guest host Dave Karger introduces A Thousand Clowns, 1965.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Thousand Clowns, 1965.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Thousand Clowns, 1965.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces A Thousand Clowns, 1965.

Director Fred Coe emphatic with location shots, introducing Jason Robards, straight from his Broadway performance as free-spirited New York writer Murray, and Barry Gordon as his prodigy nephew, in A Thousand Clowns, 1965, from Herb Gardner's hit play.

Lazy TV writer and full-time New Yorker Murray (Jason Robards) tries to manage unhinged social worker Sandra (Barbara Harris), who's dumped and kicked-out her co-worker and boyfriend, during a check-up on Robards' live-in nephew, in A Thousand Clowns, 1965, from Herb Gardner's play.

Giddy Manhattan montage by director Fred Coe, as Sandra (Barbara Harris) tidies the apartment and slack writer Murray (Jason Robards), motivated by a custody hearing, looks for work, then visits brother and agent Arnold (Martin Balsam), who had given him a lead, in A Thousand Clowns, 1965.