Editing King Vidor (section)

====Light's Diamond Jubilee, General Electric, 1954====

As part of the 75th Anniversary of [[Thomas Edison]]'s invention of electric light, Vidor adapted two short stories for television produced by [[David O. Selznick]]. The production aired on all the major American TV networks on October 24, 1954.<ref>Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p.235-36 And p 358: TV networks included CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont.</ref>

Vidor's contributions included "A Kiss for the Lieutenant" by author Arthur Gordon starring [[Kim Novak]], an amusing romantic vignette, as well as an adaption of novelist [[John Steinbeck]]'s short story "Leader of the People" (1937) (from his novella ''[[The Red Pony]]'') in which a retired wagon-master, [[Walter Brennan]], rebuffed by his son [[Harry Morgan]], finds a sympathetic audience for his War Horse reminiscences about the Old West in his grandson [[Brandon deWilde]]. Screenwriter [[Ben Hecht]] wrote the scripts for both segments.<ref>Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 254</ref>

In 1954 Vidor, in collaboration with longtime associate and screenwriter [[Laurence Stallings]], pursued a remake of the director's silent era ''[[The Turn in the Road]]'' (1919). Vidor's persistent efforts to revive this [[Christian Science]]-themed work spanning 15 years in the post-war period was never consummated, though a cast was proposed for an [[Monogram Pictures|Allied Artists]] production in 1960. Setting aside this endeavor, Vidor opted to film a Western with [[Universal-International]], ''Man Without a Star'' (1955).<ref>Durgnat and Simmon, 1988 p. 30, p. 236-237, p. 315-316</ref>