Mr. Adams and Eve Season 1, Episode 10: The Torn-Shirt School of Acting

The Young Actress

30 min

Typical

Howard and Eve's agent suggests they star in a television series about a typical married couple. They refuse, then Eve begins wondering just how their marriage compares with other marriages. She decides to try an experiment.

30 min

They're Off and Running

30 min

The Teen-Age Daughter

30 min

This is Your Life

30 min

You Can't Go Home Again

30 min

The Proposal

A movie fan-magazine asks Howard and Eve for the exclusive story of their courtship, engagement and marriage. Everything goes along fine, until the question of who actually did the proposing.

30 min

Howard Goes to Jail

30 min

The Business Manager

Francis X. Bushman, the matinee idol of silent films portrays the Adams' business manager.

30 min

The Mothers

Howard and Eve run into family problems. The mothers of both arrive for a visit at the same time. The two older women don't have much in common, which makes it difficult for Howard and Eve to keep them amused.

30 min

Academy Award

30 min

Taken for Granted

Eve fibs to Howard that she and their agent had clandestine meetings.

30 min

Fulfilling Talents

30 min

That Magazine

A magazine assigns a photographer and a reporter to cover a typical day in the life of Eve and Howard. They're pleased about the forthcoming publicity and have carefully rehearsed their own version of a day in their lives. But everything goes so far wrong that it seems the magazine will get a scoop -- that Eve and Howard are planning to divorce.

30 min

The Social Crowd

30 min

Insomnia

30 min

The Diet

A gift of a bathroom scale becomes a monster to Eve when she steps on it and learns that she's four pounds overweight. She launches herself on a rigid diet.

30 min

The Picture That Could Not Be Made

30 min

The Fighter

After Howard wins a prize fighter in a gin-rummy game, he decides to groom him for the ring. But Eve, insisting the pugilist comes under community property, has her own ideas about the training! She wants to make an actor out of their latest project.

30 min

The Rumor

At a crowded nightclub, Eve and Howard become separated. An enterprising press agent corners Eve, introduces her handsome client and arranges to have a photographer cover the meeting. Next morning the newspapers carry the news of the end of Eve's and Howard's marriage.

30 min

The Lost Two Hours

30 min

The Bachelor

An old boyfriend of Eve's gets the part of the other man in a movie starring Eve and Howard. There's no jealousy on Howard's part at all; in fact, he and the old boyfriend go out for a night on the town!

30 min

Separate Vacations

Howard and Eve decide to spend their vacation at home. But they suddenly find that they have nothing to talk about and become bored. Then a friend of theirs invites Howard to go deep-sea fishing with him, and his wife invites Eve to stay with her. But separate vacations create problems too.

30 min