(1948) - B&W - 26 min
From a live Television Show - GE Theatre complete with a Ronald Reagan introduction. Based on the Sherwood Anderson story, this live television theatre presentation stars James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Eddie Albert.

The LikeTelevision™ Classic TV channel proudly presents - I'm A Fool - with James Dean and Natalie Wood - Live on stage in the early days of "television theatre". James Dean plays a poor young man who tells rich beautiful girl that he's rich too. Eventually, he must confront the lie.

A very young Natalie Wood

Part one
Intro - B/W - GE commercial (classic stuff!) and the intro by Ronald Reagan. Eddie Albert as the narrator is the character (the boy) played by James Dean, twenty some years later.

Part two
He arrives at the stables of a racetrack looking for work. Eventually, he trys to act like a rich man and tells Lucy, a beautiful rich girl he's a man of means, just like her father.

Part three
Okay - I'm not telling how it ends. Will he tell Lucy the truth or will he let his true love slip away. Watch the stunning conclusion of "I'm a Fool" - from the early days of Live Television!

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