Here's one of Susan Cummings, an American actress of the 1950s and 1960s. She portrayed characters in several television shows and films, but is perhaps best known for her role in a 1962 episode of The Twilight Zone (original series), entitled "To Serve Man".
To Serve Man, written by Rod Serling from a short story by Damon Knight, was first televised on March 2, 1962.
Here is Rod Serling's intro: "Respectfully submitted for your perusal --- a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone."
For those of you who haven't seen this classic episode, here is a brief synopsis.
A race of alien beings called the Kanamit's arrive on Earth and begin helping mankind. They seem to be beneficent and trustsworthy. This idea is enforced when the Kanamit's leave a book at the United Nations, titled "To Serve Man". Michael Chambers (played by actor Lloyd Bochner), and thousands of other people from Earth book passage to the Kanamit's home planet. Michael's assistant Pat (played by Susan Cummings), is trying to decode the book left by the Kanamit's.
As Chambers is in line to board the spaceship, ascending the steps, Pat rushes up desperately trying to get his attention. As she is held back by the Kanamit's she warns Chambers, "Don't get on the ship. The book, To Serve Man, IT'S A COOKBOOK!" A struggling Chambers is forced into the ship and it departs.
Rod Serling then ends the tale as follows: "The recollections of one Michael Chambers, with appropriate flashbacks and soliloquy. Or more simply stated, the evolution of man, the cycle of going from dust to dessert, the metamorphosis from being the ruler of a planet to an ingredient in someone's soup. It's tonight's bill of fare on The Twilight Zone."
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