With that success, the production moved to the larger Civic Playhouse, where it ran for more than four more months. Playing only on the three "off-nights" the theatre was available, Monday through Wednesday, the production was received enthusiastically by critics and audiences, and the small 160-seat theatre was filled to capacity each night for six weeks. Vincent Millay's Conversation at Midnight, produced by Worley Thorne and Susan Davis, in November 1961, on stage, at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles. Gist directed the world premiere of Edna St. Gist also directed episodes of TV shows Naked City, The Twilight Zone, Route 66 and many others. Edwards later hired Gist to helm episodes of the TV series Peter Gunn. While shooting Operation Petticoat (1959), Gist told director Blake Edwards that he was interested in directing. Gist was also seen on Broadway in director Charles Laughton's The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (1954) with Henry Fonda and John Hodiak. While acting in Harvey, he made his motion picture debut in 20th Century-Fox's Christmas classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Work in Chicago radio was followed by stage acting roles in Chicago and on Broadway (in the long-running Harvey with Josephine Hull). There he first became interested in acting. Reform school-bound after injuring another boy in a fistfight, Gist instead ended up at Chicago's Hull House, a settlement house originally established by social worker Jane Addams. Gist was reared around the stockyards of Chicago, Illinois, during the Great Depression. Robert Marion Gist (Octo– May 21, 1998) was an American actor and film director.
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