Pulitzer Prize Playhouse
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse | |
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Genre | Dramatic series |
Written by | Maxwell Anderson Sidney Howard George S. Kaufman |
Directed by | Lawrence Carra Charles S. Dubin Alex Segal |
Presented by | Elmer Davis |
Starring | Spring Byington Charles Dingle James Dunn Nina Foch John Forsythe Helen Hayes Wanda Hendrix Wright King Otto Kruger Thomas Mitchell Mildred Natwick Gene Raymond Kent Smith Fredd Wayne |
Composer(s) | Kurt Weill |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 53 |
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Running time | 60 min. |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | ABC |
Audio format | Monaural |
Original run | 6 October 1950 – 4 June 1952 |
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IMDb profile | |
TV.com summary |
The Pulitzer Prize Playhouse is an American television dramatic anthology series which offered adaptations of Pulitzer-Prize winning plays, stories and novels. ABC telecast the series from 1950 to 1952.
Plays in the first season included You Can't Take It with You, The Magnificent Ambersons and Our Town. The second season productions included Ah, Wilderness and The Skin of Our Teeth.
Actors in these shows included Spring Byington, Charles Dingle, James Dunn, Nina Foch, John Forsythe, Helen Hayes, Wanda Hendrix, Wright King, Otto Kruger, Thomas Mitchell, Mildred Natwick, Gene Raymond, Kent Smith and Fredd Wayne.
Elmer Davis was the narrator.
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