William Shatner 1958 on the Ed Sullivan Show

[@beyourself2444]

Shatner was a bona fide star in the 50s and 60s. He really deserves his accolades. Such a hard working man even now at 90.

[@garychambers5850]

He was a great in a few episodes of " *The TwiLight Zone* "..

[@superbrighteye]

Didn't he have a rough time in the early 70ties to get work ? Even sleeping in the car(a mobile home probably). I think i read that many years ago in a bio or something.If true,even talented you got to have luck and know some people (in those days) because we know how motivated Shatner always was/is and by then he already had a long track record so you would think it would be easy for him to get some bigger roles in 1970 he had to wait for 1975 again to get some

[@bradthurkle7217]

@@superbrighteye yes I think actors are amazing people just waiting for that big gig.

[@lanceevans1689]

@@superbrighteye As I recall it was some short time after the end of the Star Trek series, and he was going through a divorce, and ended up living in a mobile home. Remember, Star Trek only ran 2 and a half seasons. By the time your agents and managers and the taxman takes their cut, whatever he was paid was a lot less. But a bit after that he landed TJ Hooker, and I'm sure did well with that. Then the ST movie and he was most certainly a millionaire.

[@Paladin1873]

@@superbrighteye Yes, I read the same thing. He had a very tough time after his divorce. I guess he was the comeback kid. When his acting is subtle, it is great. If you don't believe that, watch his performance in "The Intruder". The movie is riveting. When he overacts, it can be painful unless it's a comedic role. Then he's a hoot.

[@juniorjangles7655]

Dang Shatner is good. Even very young he was so natural, nuanced & self assured on stage. He a true legend

[@UnchainedEruption]

Well I mean he's in his 20s here, he had probably been very experienced in his craft by that point.

[@drizzt8965]

@@UnchainedEruption If you can't say anything nice....

[@PaulWallis]

William Shatner has always had star quality. That humour and sparkle is already there in 1958. So interesting to hear a tad more Canadian in his accent here. The longevity of his career and his joie de vivre are an inspiration.

[@mdarrenu]

Happy to know in April 2021 both France and Bill are still alive and well!

[@lyndaunknown720]

Elaysian(AP?) tears...

[@indieshack4476]

Say what you like about Shatner, he is a very good actor with an excellent voice.

[@frankd8957]

Recently watched Shatner as a young army officer in Judgement at Nuremberg, a 1961 film. He is now doing Unexplained Mysteries on the History Channel and still working and lucid at 90 years old!

[@bryanismyname7583]

Norman Lloyd was 106, and French actress Renee Dorleac (mother of Catherine Deneuve) was 109 when they passed recently. Lloyd made a film appearance in the 2015 film "Trainwreck" at the age of 100. Not to mention that Kirk Douglas and Olivia de Havilland were both past 100 when they left us. But it's true that working and acting in lead roles into the 90s is impressive. Clint Eastwood is acting and directing still, and has a movie called "Cry Macho" upcoming this year.

[@ladedalounge]

Still is at 91......I guess the brain is just an organ and some are healthier than others.......

[@juniorjangles7655]

Yeah he’s our longest living big famous actor. Who else was famous in the 1950’s & still famous (& working) in 2022. Only Captain Kirk! 😎🔥

[@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212]

@@bryanismyname7583 Christopher Lee or Christopher Plummer where still working into their 90s.

[@bryanismyname7583]

@@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212 : So were Angela Lansbury and Betty White. Lansbury's last screen appearance will be a cameo in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," along with the late great Stephen Sondheim.

[@bySterling]

Wow, just when I think Shatners career can’t get any deeper. He had the ‘it’ factor right out the gate indeed. 🙌🏻

[@TheGearhead222]

Not surprised, as he was a Shakespearean actor at the Stratford Festival in Canada previously-John in Texas

[@stephenolan5539]

@@TheGearhead222 Did Captain Kirk ever work with Obi-Wan? Or were they there at different times?

[@rogueplanet7776]

He’s a far better actor than the late night comics give him credit for, some of his work even in Star Trek was extremely subtle, far more subtle than a weekly TV series would ordinarily demand. There’s a reason that show became as popular as it did, and that’s all to the quality of the cast, with Shatner right at the head of it.

[@bryanismyname7583]

@@stephenolan5539 : Alec Guinness made films from 1946 in "Great Expectations," after a long stage career that had begun in 1934. By the time Shatner was making his start in movies with "The Brothers Karamazov" (1958), Guinness was well-established and had won an Academy Award for "The Bridge on the River Kwai," co-starring William Holden (who replaced Shatner in the film version of "The World of Suzie Wong"). I do not believe their professional careers crossed paths, but Shatner did understudy for the late Christopher Plummer on stage in Canada.

[@bryanismyname7583]

@@rogueplanet7776 : Yes, people who doubt Shatner as a serious actor should see "The Intruder" (1962), directed by Roger Corman.

[@eugenecherny3871]

Shatner was paired again with France Nguyen once again in a star trek episode. What talent!

[@christianferreira4208]

Y tambien en un episodio de la serie Kung fu, Shatner y Nuyen actuaron junto a David Carradine.

[@loritouma5899]

Can’t believe he is 90 years old now and doesn’t look it at all!!!! Wow 🤩

[@greglapointe1311]

Bill is 90, still very active and still in demand! We should all be so lucky!

[@starwarsrebel2006]

And he was only 27 years old in this video. France Nuyen was only 19.

[@dellawrence4323]

And with a mind as sharp as a razor.

[@soilmanted]

@@starwarsrebel2006 He looked only 22.

[@DH-sm7sw]

@@dellawrence4323 There is a great interview with him on YT about the death of Christopher Plummer.

[@wallnut6666]

Interesting, France Nuyen would also appear with Shatner in Star Trek

[@growalnuts9880]

...recognized her voice absolutely

[@robpawlikowski4020]

Can you imagine a television show today presenting over ten minutes of a theatrical scene?

[@samsonguy10k]

I'd love it. I still remember watching the stage performance of Camelot on TV with the same cast as the 1967 movie. Richard Harris, Vanessa Redgrave, etc. It's actually better than the movie.

[@mdteletom1288]

Ed really invested a lot of money on the set. He couldn't just give them one or two minutes.

[@pasierose9881]

Awesome

[@moricoffman4331]

Back in the 50's TV commercials were limited. Instead of the average 18 mins of commercials per hour programming (& more) that we have in 2021, in the 50's TV commercials ran approximately 10 to 11 minutes per hour.

[@mangomonkey6938]

@@moricoffman4331 Original Trek episodes ran over 50 minutes. Wasn't that a time..... It all pays actors' exorbitant salaries. I'm not saying that the suits don't get rich too but the increase in consumer cost of everything is to line wealthy pockets. Don't exempt Hollywood. I know it's not only actors but it's actors also. And athletes and musicians too. Everybody deserves a fair wage first but instead the system feeds mad wealth to the few who do the least and the poor are hostages with nothing to do but funnel their hard earned cash into the hands of entertainment figures. The emergence of entertainment figures-athletes, actors and musicians-as a sect who can accumulate wealth in the hundreds of millions of dollars is mind boggling. Wealth in the tens of millions is mind boggling when you know that people are fighting to make $15. an hour and wait staff may still be earning $2.03 an hour and surviving on the tips that management then tries to steal from them. Whew...where did THAT come from? 😃😃

[@ellenandwillhernandez4298]

He was in his late 20's when my dad was born, my pop's passed away 4 years ago at 60 and Mr. Shatner is still kicking... crazy

[@LarryLeeMoniz]

It's the coolest to hear Ed Sullivan say "William Shatner!"

[@Elphaba1952]

Shatner's a natural born actor. His books are an amazing insight into his work ethic. He never turned down a roll. Work and keep working. And he's still that way at 90!

[@MarkMcLT]

It's kind of amazing that Sullivan describes Shatner in 1958 as already a "brilliant young Canadian star," yet with no idea of just how much his stardom would explode in the years ahead.

[@HomebrewStew]

Should have added "Jewish" too.

[@samsonguy10k]

This was only two years after Shatner was Christopher Plummer's understudy in Henry V, and one fateful time Bill had to step in. As Christopher Plummer put it, "That son of a bitch did everything the opposite of me. Where I sat, he stood. Where I did this, he contradicted it. I knew right then he was a fantastic actor." Those two would remain good friends for the rest of time and would finally perform together in one of the best Star Trek movies of all time.

[@loupasternak]

Legendary

[@underthetornado]

​. Why?

[@83redshadow]

You've never appreciated Shakespeare until you hear it in the original Klingon ​@samsonguy10k

[@barrywebber100]

What a beautiful gorgeous couple they made together! Bill so handsome and France so beautiful. So glad that they are both still enjoying life and Bill still incredible and full of vigour at reaching 90 years old just recently. Thanks for posting.

[@christopherallen9580]

Never seen this clip before. Love Shatner since Star Trek 1966. Thanks for sharing!

[@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel]

Was really pleased to stumble upon this one.

[@HonoredGeneral]

@@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel And so glad that you did!

[@rr7firefly]

I always enjoyed the laid-back conversations between Shatner and James Spader on "Boston Legal."

[@gauchemurleau]

They were flamingos.

[@MarkGreen-uy9em]

Indeed they were​@@gauchemurleau

[@KathyJean]

William Shatner is forever cool.

[@vincentrogers450]

Green, yellow, black women, ...Will is truly a man beyond his time! "Live long and prosper Sir!"

[@anthonydear4708]

I think WS was underrated as an actor. Was without doubt the best of his generation

[@995fantaisia]

Wonderful ! I love William Shatner. Such a positive guy with charm and magnetism. Wishing you many more years.

[@tomf3150]

Little did they knew they would meet a few years later, on the far side of the galaxy.

[@MeBeTheDB]

Welllll ... make that more than a 'few' ... as it was 10 years later. 'ELAAN OF TROYIUS' was filmed in December of 1968. Star Trek -- 3rd Season. The thing of it is -- is ... you could tell that Shatner had that extra something even in at age 27. He is truly an actor's actor. D.A.

[@mem1701movies]

If she’d had better hair in that episode...a lot of episodes ruined the female’s beauty with weird hair.

[@mdarrenu]

@@mem1701movies she was stunning in the star trek episode.

[@marcusalexander7088]

@@mdarrenu 3000. Cubed!

[@moneyfindersllc6236]

I think they both knew, that it was Written in the Stars... ;-) 👍👍 ♥

[@antarcticorb9197]

Never knew Ed Sullivan had lengthy drama pieces like this on his show.

[@samsonguy10k]

Ed actually did so much to broaden the horizons of performance on television. Shame nobody these days is up to such a feat. All we get any more is a dumbed-down version of The Gong Show. And that's a travesty as The Gong Show was good.

[@garychambers5850]

Every Sunday Night we Faithfully watched " _The Ed Sullivan" Show_ over my _Grandma's_ house even Before I was born. Im sure I was in front of the TV when this show was broadcast. I was just 5 years old and wouldn't remember. But move ahead 6 years... I do remember watching _The Beatles_ perform for the First time 🤗🧡🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️🚶🏽‍♀️ Sorry to get off track 🙏🏽

[@buddyneher9359]

@@garychambers5850 well, no mention of the Ed Sullivan show and stars of the 50s/60s would be complete without memories of whether we saw The Beatles on Feb. 9, 1964. I did! I was 7 :-) (I would have been 2 for this episode with Shatner... perhaps I was in front of the TV then, too. My sisters would have been.)

[@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel]

Interesting...so I went in search of....The Broadway cast of "Picnic" performed on the Ed Sullivan Show.......kzbin.info/www/bejne/e6jWY6V7r7d9g5o

[@Skyprince27]

Oh, yes, Ed had absolutely everything...

[@stoneagedjp]

Had lost all hope that something like this might exist. What a find. Love the book. The stage interpretation is fascinating🖖.

[@scottmyers63]

Both were involved in a memorable episode of Star Trek, nearly a decade later!

[@MrGlenspace]

Look at a 27 year old shatner. Still going strong at 90.

[@petertaylor8503]

What - no comments! It must be that people aren't finding this rare record of Shatner and Broadway co-star Francis Nuyen from 1958 - very early for Shatner = pre Roger Corman's "The Intruder"(1962, and a must see for Shatner fans - a powerful and demanding performance for Shatner at the age of about 29) - pre Twilight Zone appearances, Outer Limits appearance, before the movie version of the same title with William Holden and Nancy Kwan, and over 8 years before Star Trek! He was already a very confident actor,. This scene is pretty hard to pull off so well and so smoothly on a stage as big as the Ed Sullivan Show which, is exactly where any aspiring or established artist wanted an invite....pretty cool to see this exists.

[@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel]

I was certainly pleased when I FINALLY found a copy of this. Thought it was lost forever!

[@robd1329]

This was amazing to see! He really had the acting talent to play leading man!

[@petertaylor8503]

NIce to see how my first comment got an small avalanche of views and comments started - from "0" comments to this string and from less than a 100 hits to almost 1300 - merely noting the phenomenon....that's how these things go. But it really is a special early insight to the man and as an example of what was being aired on one of the very biggest shows on television (ever) at a time when anyone outside the New York area had about 3 channels to choose from and no reruns of anything. For Ed to devote over 10 solid minutes of air time to a piece like this was very unusual, in this case building a real launching pad (no pun) for Shatner's budding career....and yes, as folks are commenting, Nuyen would appear with Shatner on the TOS episode "Elaan of Troyius".

[@robd1329]

@@petertaylor8503 as Shatner would say...Get A Lifeeee!!!!

[@petertaylor8503]

@@robd1329 Yeah - you're right....He should go back to doing Promise margarine adds..."promise". That's what he got reduced to doing after Star Trek got cancelled...not his best days...life's ups and downs.

[@ThinkShift]

For everyone enamored of the original Star Trek series, remember that Shatner wasn't the first captain of the USS Enterprise. In the original pilot episode (1965), the captain was Christopher Pike, played by Jeffrey Hunter. Thankfully, Shatner came in and gave the character of Kirk the wit and charm that defined the series.

[@UnchainedEruption]

Shatner is the first captain. Pike was a placeholder character. There were two separate pilots for Star Trek, one of them also had a female first officer originally. Lots of things in a pilot like that are just to sell the show to the network, not yet in stone.

[@apexerman1]

Agreed. The wit and charm are easily seen in a young William Shatner. These days, the role of Kirk has gone to someone less capable in the new Strange New World series.

[@arthurwatt5162]

Hunter was going to be captain but his schedule was a problem and so was his girlfriend.

[@billbeckham2280]

@@arthurwatt5162Hunter’s wife told Roddenberry that a sci-fi TV show was beneath him. I think he also wanted too much money

[@rachel-in-the-208]

I am such a big fan! … There is no denying his talent. I love his dramatic interpretations of song lyrics. I think I will watch those next here on KZbin

[@davidsmith5523]

Great performances from all concerned. I knew about the play decades ago. Never knew this excerpt existed. Very enjoyable.

[@flonsta]

What a golden find! Thank you so much for uploading.

[@ellascott4497]

Back then, 1960s during the civil rights movement, that inter-racial kiss, 2 beautiful people with talent and intelligence, just absolutely outstanding!👍🍿🍐☕🧸🎻 My mother used to say that: " Mr. Ed Sullivan always knew how to push that proverbial envelope, he saw not racial but, pure enduring unadulterated talent in all people and as well their exquisite idiosyncrasies ." Thank you for this amazing upload. Stay healthy...😷😎🍎

[@Jerry-OSBB]

Even then... he was Capt. Kirk. He was born to be Kirk. No matter what I see him in he always talks and acts like Kirk. And that is okay by me. I loved TOS.

[@markjaycox8811]

a ego laden fool is what he is.

[@Jerry-OSBB]

@@markjaycox8811 Aren't we all?

[@markjaycox8811]

@@Jerry-OSBB I am the 1st human to leave the feed. I am the 1st space traveler. Space travel begins like this: 10,000,000,002,021. FEEL THAT??? You just moved ETERNITY. You moved it from thought to sight-space travel. google KZbin mark jaycox regression- the deepest journey through TIME ever recorded, I am the CREATOR of A.I., but I am not the only one as ONE STEP BEYOND proves.

[@u2bist]

@@markjaycox8811 In today's version of reality there are no truly good people, we're all just a bunch of bastards whose despicable flaws haven't been found out yet.

[@markjaycox8811]

@@u2bist in todays version of reality you sit as the dog at its dish 2021 presented, but the dog knows there is a bag (10,000,000,002,021) that fills its dish. You have no concept of SCALE because you have never measured yourself "off" the one-2021 you were put on. 2021 is not there. any 5,000 year old tree can tell you so. I have been eye to eye with Abraham Lincoln and Adolph Hitler- the same TIME TRAVELER- different bodies- same consciousness, and Abraham's blood and ghost are last seen just 8 miles from my door, and Abe used my dream body to dream to Tom Hanks, William Shatner, and Peyton Manning, as each man awoke to find POTUS LINCOLN sitting on their beds.

[@miyoshiumeki]

This was a special version that encapsulated the story. The voice over narration and the dialog in the bar was all added to tell the story.

[@denisgauthier9191]

I’ve never seen William Shatner on The Ed Sullivan Show 8 years before he was in Star Trek until now

[@garychambers5850]

It always happens. I too never seen William Shatner only on Star Trek. But afterwards, you start seeing appear in other things, Like The Twilight Zone, or Bonanza, Ed Sullivan.. Its like that with other Actors & Actresses.. 🤗

[@snowysnowyriver]

The Capt Kirk and TJ Hooker characters became so synonymous with him that it's easy to overlook that he was an excellent actor for years before Star Trek was even thought of.

[@james5460]

France Nguyen later starred in a good episode of Star Trek. She's still around today, too.

[@asianthor]

Nice to know.

[@Barnabas45]

"Elaan of Troyius" Can't agree it was a good episode though?

[@assignmentearth2899]

According to Shatner in one of his books she was evidently something of a pill to deal with in this production. A bit like the part she played on Trek.

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

Cool

[@C21L01]

assignmentearth His own reputation earned to those he worked with wasn't exactly flattering either. Most of them describe him as an egotistical pig & that's putting it mildly. So if she was difficult during performances and rehearsals, he wasn't exactly Mr Innocence with a nice halo above his head, either. It works both ways.

[@Outofbubblegum-ve6cr]

They both appeared together several years later in Star Trek TOS episode 13 of season 3 titled Elaan of Troyius and then years later again, in an episode of Kung Fu.

[@HerrEllsworth]

That was a good episode of Kung Fu, "A Small Beheading".

[@commentatron]

Yep, and let's not forget the very special episode of TJ Hooker where he goes undercover as Simplejack 'Tuggernuts' McClain - befriended by Nuyen's character, Topoxixi-o.

[@markw208]

“Elaan of Troyius” is on H&I network tonight. I’ve always liked the episode and drooled over France Nuyen, she was 😍. After watching this clip of them both, I have a new appreciation for both of them. I wish their play was on DVD. Lucky Shatner locked lips with France several times 💋💋💋💋

[@jerryjohnson575]

that is so cool....he is the coolest person on Earth and in the stars

[@stephenolan5539]

@@jerryjohnson575 During a Candian election one if the Candidates had spent a long time in the US. There was some controversy about whether he should run for Candian Prime Minister when he had spent so much time out of Canada. Later there were people calling for William Shatner to be appointed Governor General. He said no, he had been put of Canada too much.

[@sidethehead]

4:48! Wow! On the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958! The man who filmed Elvis from the waist up! Dang.

[@cathrynory8854]

Oh, to be able to go back in time and see them both live on stage 🙏❤️

[@virago1776-h4g]

That is an absolute gem! Thank you for posting it.

[@alexchis1610]

Great stage actor from way back it seems. Often underestimated as an actor as Captain Kirk for his theatrical interpretation of the role but has left an indelible impact on audiences from that era until today. Great recent interview when he was nearly 90 too

[@chesleypottle3629]

Omg she’s adorable! ❤️❤️

[@jamessteen6667]

she was beautiful

[@pendragon4905]

William Shatner and France Nuyen also appeared together in Star Trek, The Horror at 37,000 Feet (TV movie) and the Kung Fu episode, A Small Beheading. All well worth seeing.

[@pendragon4905]

@MissDroplette You don't see that much of her. She plays a model who flirts briefly with Roy Thinnes. A strange film but a guilty pleasure for me. In fact I love it.

[@julianaylor4351]

Barely a decade away from being Captain James Tiberius Kirk, forever. Also a man, still a star and working as he reaches 90.❤️

[@reubencarter3004]

And France Nuyen would play the role of Elaan of Troyius.

[@petertaylor8503]

This has gone mini-viral since having "0" comments and less than 100 hits 3 weeks ago - the power of YT, but people are enjoying seeing this featured piece from Ed Sullivan yester-year....saw Shatner still going strong narrating his new UneXplained series - active and working hard in 2021 - a remarkable and incredibly varied career.

[@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel]

And you’re the one who started all this with the first comment. Thanks, PT.

[@petertaylor8503]

@@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel Haha....kinda seems that way, coincides with my ice-breaking, which is why I've been tracking all this activity. All the connections and comments are fun. I have to admit that part of me is a TV junkie and definitely something of a Trekkie - such an influential show even as it was so strongly influenced by productions that came before it, such as "Forbidden Planet". Leslie Nielsen in that highly seminal sci-fi classic, the first iteration of a bonified Captain Kirk character, if with a bit more Sergeant in him...thks for the thks RP.

[@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel]

@@petertaylor8503 The miracle of you tube. What we do before it existed? Guess that’s why I’ve got so many VHS transfers. AH! Leslie Nielsen. Did you know his “Police Squad” only lasted 6 episodes, if I’m not mistaken? Sure we quick to pull the trigger on that one, Sorry....unrelated to the topic at hand.

[@johnfury6481]

That was fantastic. Shatner shows that he was quite versatile from the beginning.

[@nicksambides2628]

And this is all his own hair!!! Sorry -- couldn't resist. I put this comment down here so maybe nobody would notice ... sigh.

[@FenwayJoe7129]

Amazing!!!!! Thanks for this.

[@marksark1119]

Shatner fell hopelessly in love with Suzy when she shed a tear and it touched his hand. He could deny her nothing.

[@bro1965]

I get that reference: Star Trek, Season 3, Episode 13, "Elaan of Troyius".

[@garyfrancis6193]

I know the feeling. Then France Nguyen went of and married Robert Culp. I had to settle for Marilyn Monroe.

[@markusdufus517]

no, that was Kirk. Shatner fell hopelessly in love only with Shatner.

[@samualcrocket1405]

@@markusdufus517 Shatner is a person of good nature.

[@bonnievandergriff8272]

@@samualcrocket1405 Maybe and I liked him as a kid but for whatever reason he is hated and ridiculed by many. I have heard he is very egotistical and arrogant, but I wouldn't know as I have never met the man.

[@debraenglander9317]

So handsome and still is. Has the same smile as Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke

[@bryanismyname7583]

This is a real treasure, since Shatner was replaced by William Holden for the film version in 1961. Frances Nuyen was originally cast in the film, and shot some scenes, before weight issues prompted the producer to fire her and Nancy Kwan got the role. So this is the only chance we have -- as far as I know -- to see these actors in this play. Too bad they didn't do a complete live TV version at the time.

[@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel]

How true! I was, needless to say, thrilled to find a copy of this.

[@ThunderZandor]

WHere to find those Frances Nuyen scenes for the film? lost? burned? stored away by 20th Century FoX.

[@dmnemaine]

William Shatner and France Nuyen would later reunite on the set of Star Trek for the 3rd Season episode "Elaan Of Troyius".

[@miyoshiumeki]

I knew this existed and have been looking for this forever. I was planning on going to the Paley Center in NYC to see it. Cool!

[@randolphpinkle4482]

Frances Nguyen was also in the 1958 film version of South Pacific as Bloody Mary's daughter, Liat, on Bali Hai. She is Vietnamese.

[@marbleman52]

Randolph Pinkle ....I was 6 in 1958 and my mother loved musicals and she took me to see South Pacific and Oklahoma when they came out at the movies. We had the records too and I would sit in front of our record player and listen and sing along with these and other great musicals.

[@sallytedesco2192]

Mr. Shatner was always a brilliant actor. I love his work, not just Star Trek which was, by the way a show I never missed an episode of when Shatner played Capt. Kirk. But that's just another example of his fine work.

[@theoriginalthinker9199]

Wow! France was on an episode of Star Trek where Kirk couldn't deal with his attraction to her. Easy to see why they chose her. She was incredibly beautiful in not only this, but South Pacific, as well.

[@lvbandmore]

Thanks for sharing this! Came here after watching the Collider interview!

[@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@RubyPearls-Shatner-channel]

That Collider interview was a good one.

[@patrickwilson1459]

Hard to believe that in November it will be 65 years this aired on TV. And then 10 years later it’ll be 55 years since they worked on Star Trek once.

[@mscommerce]

I qualify for social security within months. Hard to believe that William Shatner was working before I was born, and is still working.

[@samsonguy10k]

This is the first time I've seen William in a performance before Star Trek, almost ten years younger. Really looking at this convinces me Chris Pine really was the perfect choice to also play Kirk.

[@JanCarol11]

Check out Twilight Zone "Terror at 20,000 Feet."

[@ThunderZandor]

37,000 feet.@@JanCarol11

[@lynnpetti3817]

This is great. Thank you.

[@markgraham2312]

There's the first inter-racial kiss on television, eight years before Star Trek!

[@Jamaicafunk]

Wow. You’re right. And the scene is almost identical.

[@wesleytillman9774]

Back then television could handle white guys kissing and even marrying Asian girls, but not blacks. In American culture it wasn't imagined an ideal parring but the image of Asians was rightfully considered one of intelligence with a record of accomplished civilization.

[@paulpolpiboon9535]

Well that's dam true, huh!

[@larryscott3982]

That’s a pretty elaborate for an Ed Sullivan show. Back then all TV variety shows were live.

[@troubledsole9104]

Wow, and Shatner was involved in both.

[@bobsradio6025]

Wild Bill Shatner had a lot of "first" experiences. He sailed to Hong Cong and kissed a Chinese girl, and then later he sailed to another world and kissed his black communications officer. That guy was really something with ALL the women.

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Even green women from outer space. Women are great, aren't they? :)

[@Labowski2569]

Wow, Shatner had to be in his 20's at that time? Hard to believe he's 90 now!

[@lanceevans1689]

Surprisingly good! Thanks for posting it.

[@jamessteen6667]

do u guys remember she was in a startrek episode , she played an arrogant queen or something. kirk broke her down when she cried her tears made cpt kirk love her, great episode.

[@ThomasSellers]

Before Uhura, before the green girl, Captain Kirk had an Asian girl named Suzy. The Shat gets around the world!

[@theexmann]

Is that Elaan of Troyius?

[@georgehenderson7783]

@@theexmann It sure is! Just realized this after reading the comments and the description! Elaan: Tell me, what can you teach me? Kirk: Table manners for one thing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZ6paZqjadGNoaM

[@HonoredGeneral]

@@theexmann Yes.

[@theexmann]

@@georgehenderson7783 Hahaha...I remember that line from the episode. I recognized her voice more so than her face because in ST she looks very different. She was also romantically involved with Marlon Brando early on before ST.

[@dashfatbastard]

Shatner's tongue...bolding going where no white man has gone before on TV.

[@johnaugsburger6192]

Thanks so much

[@TexasDog3]

This is a knife, this is a fork, this is a plate! Like it or not, you're going to learn what you've been ordered to learn!

[@thecatvirusgotme889]

"I did not give you permission to leave!" I am sorry - do we have permission to leave? "You may leave!"

[@MyTNMtnHome]

Pretty sure I love this man. I have since I was 7.

[@vidpie]

"In 1955, while working as a seamstress, Nguyen was discovered on the beach by Life photographer Philippe Halsman. She was featured on the cover of 6 October 1958 issue of Life." "In 1986, Nuyen earned a master's degree in clinical psychology and began a second career as a counselor for abused women, children and women in prison. She received a Woman of the Year award in 1989 for her psychology work."

[@swankydog]

This just leaves me wanting more!

[@intercommerce]

After reading about this play for years but never seeing it and yet it's fantastic to appear on the KZbin time machine

[@dorianmclean6755]

I love this guy

[@kemhopkins3421]

She is Beautiful...

[@JoeBilello1969]

Shatner was a fantastic talent and a really good-looking guy and this automatically brings with it an enormous amount of jealousy, I'm not even a star at all and I've dealt with it my whole life so I can only imagine how much of it he's had to deal with!!! People have been jealous of my hair, my straight white teeth, how I look, how I dress, people are sick shallow petty jealous things and this poor guy has been tortured by these petty people for working hard, loving what he was doing and looking good doing it!!! I'm all for him and a big fan, he definitely was a rare bird and it's a shame that there's been such jealous people who've lost sleep pestering him for decades now!!!😮

[@humberlick]

William Shatner, France Nuyen were secret lovers. This the woman shatner sacrifices for his career. Both look beautiful.Love this play.

[@growalnuts9880]

They were lovers in real life?

[@ultramaximusreviews]

You said beautiful! This is Captain Kirk perfecting his movies..

[@144Donn]

Wow! Th for posting

[@louisbrugnoni7639]

Loved this!

[@cpt.8778]

god bless william shatner

THIS MAN IS LEGENDARY

Willian off course

[@ricarleite]

If people said they would send this actor to space 63 years later, people would think you're crazy

[@cameronmccreary4758]

To quote Commodore Decker at this time (Episode: Doomsday Machine), "You're Jim Kirk!" Pretty much says it all!

[@docsavage8640]

He was quite a handsome charming devil.

[@a.stewart2641]

Fantastic!! Thank you!!

[@bliastreb6466]

Thanks Ruby. A piece of 'Denni Craine' revealed!

[@STho205]

That was the first romantic interracial kiss on US TV. 10 years before Uhura and Elaan in S3 of Star Trek.

[@garychambers5850]

Wish we could go back to 1958! 😞

[@Justin-q4w6d]

Damm this was 66 years ago omg

[@starguy2718]

A few years later, Shatner traded the ferry boat for a starship.

[@DirtCheapFU]

France Nuyen. Those are some huge, beautiful eyes.

[@johnfraraccio99]

Here France was a little over 17 years of age, and Bill would later be in the Broadway opening night cast of A Shot in the Dark (indeed, the play Blake Edwards later adapted into a movie starring Peter Sellers). Working actors all...and, no pun intended, it's fascinating to see them here.

[@nitinbwj]

Denny Crane ! Never Lost,never Will !!

[@lorakendall4940]

Oh how I wish I was her. So lucky‼️♥️♥️♥️

[@jayraskin]

He was impressive on the two guess starring roles he had on both "the Twilight Zone" and "Thriller." I thought he was also great in his first guest star role in "the Naked City, "Portrait of a Painter," (1962) in which he plays an eccentric artist who is accused of killing his wife. He's terrific and totally believable in it. You can't decide if he is guilty or not until the very last scene. He was so good, the producers immediately had him guess star in another episode just two months later, "Without Stick or Sword." He played a Buddhist sailor from Burma. He didn't really look very Asian, so the episode didn't quite work. However, the producers gave him two more guess starring roles in another drama series, "Doctors and Nurses," that they did the next year. Many young actors appeared on the series "Naked City." I think Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman were the only two that gave performances that matched Shatner's.

[@indranidasgupta8982]

Yet another Trek Alum there with him -- Frances Nguyen.

[@tnator3542]

Beautiful!! ❤❤ And they met (would meet?) again in the year 2260 AD, on a different ship, called The Enterprise, where they kissed, or would kiss, again. Sigh and Smile. What a beautiful couple. May they both Live Long and Prosper. 🖖