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After The Last Tycoon ( March 14, 1957 ), adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about a film studio head, Frankenheimer followed with Tad Mosel's If You Knew Elizabeth ( April 11, 1957 ) about an ambitious college professor ; another Fitzgerald adaptation, Winter Dreams ( May 23, 1957 ), dramatizing a romantic triangle ; Clash by Night ( June 13, 1957 ), with Kim Stanley in an adaptation of the Clifford Odets play ; and The Fabulous Irishman ( June 27, 1957 ), a biographical drama tracing events in the life of Robert Briscoe.

Frankenheimer used a fake bull's head jutting into the frame when he staged The Death of Manolete ( September 12, 1957 ), Barnaby Conrad's drama about the death of the legendary bullfighter, a production later ranked by Frankenheimer as one of his worst.