The Third Girl From the Left is a 1973 made-for-TV movie starring Kim Novak

Kim Novak

Kim Novak is an American film and television actress. She began her career with her roles in Pushover and Phffft! but achieved greater prominence in the 1955 film Picnic...

. She plays Gloria Joyce, a chorus girl who has an affair with a delivery boy (Michael Brandon

Michael Brandon

Michael Brandon is an American actor who resides in the United Kingdom and United States.-Life and career:Brandon was born Michael Feldman in Brooklyn, New York to Miriam and Sol Feldman...

) when she realizes that her long-time affair with a nightclub comedian (Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades, but had his greatest popularity during the 1950s and early 1960s. He acted in over 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama...

) is not going anywhere. This was the TV-movie debut for both Kim Novak and Tony Curtis. Also in the cast are Michael Conrad

Michael Conrad

Michael Conrad was an American television actor.-Career:Conrad had a long acting career in television from the 1950s to the 1980s...

 and Barbi Benton

Barbi Benton

Barbi Benton is an American model, actress and singer.-Career:She was featured on the cover of Playboy several times and in nude photo layouts in the March 1970, December 1973, and January 1975 issues, although she was never one of the magazine's "Playmates of the Month".Benton is known for her...

. This was originally shown on October 16, 1973. Hugh Hefner

Hugh Hefner

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 was the Executive Producer for this film, which was made by Playboy Films. It was written by Dory Previn

Dory Previn

Dory Previn, née Dorothy Veronica Langan , is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter and poet.During the late 1950s and 1960s she was a lyricist for motion picture songs, and with her first husband André Previn received several Academy Award nominations...

 and directed by Peter Medak

Peter Medak

Peter Medak is a Hungarian-born film director of British and American films.-Early life:He was born in Budapest, Hungary to a Jewish family, but in 1956 fled his native country for England due to the Hungarian Revolution...

.