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Old Time Radio - Drama - Academy Award Theater
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Academy Award Theater (1946)
"Hollywood's finest, the great picture plays, the great actors and actresses,
techniques and skills, chosen from the honor roll of those who have won
or been nominated for the famous golden Oscar of the Academy
of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences."
Stars and movies with Oscars were the idea - in most cases, the movie stars recreated their Academy Award roles for the show, or in other cases, fine actors played the parts and gave it a different character. Both ways made for great radio drama and first class Hollywood motion picture star entertainment. The Lux Radio Theater had been doing this kind of radio show in the grandest manner for many years, but sponsor Squibb had the hubris and deep pockets to take on the competition by doing Academy Award Theater right after the Second World War. The year 1946 was pre-television, and so movies were still the major American visual art form, with radio the other popular network entertainment. In this final pre-TV time, Academy Award Theater was thought of as a premier radio production, a wow show, much like CinemaScope was to be in the 1950s when Hollywood felt the box office blow of early TV. The list of films and actors on Academy Award Theater is very impressive. Bette Davis begins the series in Jezebel, with Ginger Rogers following in Kitty Foyle, and then Paul Muni in The Life of Louis Pasteur. The Informer had to have Victor Mclaglen, and the Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet (this movie was his first major motion picture role) plus Mary Astor for the hat trick. Suspicion starred Cary Grant with Ann Todd doing the Joan Fontaine role, Ronald Coleman in Lost Horizon, and Joan Fontaine and John Lund were in Portrait of Jenny. - Some films are less well known, such as Guest in the House, with Kirk Douglas and Anita Louise, It Happened Tomorrow, with Eddie Bracken and Ann Blythe playing Dick Powell and Linda Darnell's roles, and Cheers for Miss Bishop with Olivia de Havilland. Each adaptation is finely produced and directed by Dee Engelbach, with music composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Frank Wilson wrote the movie adaptations. In his book,"On the Air, The Encyclopedia of Old Time Radio," John Dunning tells us why such a fine production lasted less than a year, "The House of Squibb, a drug firm, footed a stiff bill: up to $5,000 for the stars and $1,600 a week to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for use of the title. The production had all the class of a Lux or Screen Guild show…But the tariff took its toll, and after 39 weeks the series was scrapped."
Datei xx.mp3 | Sendedatum | Inhalt | Dauer |
460330 01 | 30.03.1946 | Jezebel Mit Bette Davies. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:53 |
460406 02 | 06.04.1946 | Kitty Foyle Mit Ginger Rogers. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:30:03 |
460413 03 | 13.04.1946 | Life Of Louis Pasteur Mit Paul Muni. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:07 |
460420 04 | 20.04.1946 | Great Mcginty R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:14 |
460427 05 | 27.04.1946 | Snow White R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:14 |
460504 06 | 04.05.1946 | Stagecoach R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:23 |
460511 07 | 11.05.1946 | If I Were King R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:19 |
460518 08 | 18.05.1946 | My Sister Eileen R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:27 |
460525 09 | 25.05.1946 | Informer it Victor Mclaglen. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:18 |
460601 10 | 01.06.1946 | Arise, My Love R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:48 |
460608 11 | 08.06.1946 | Ruggles Of Red Gap R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:10 |
460615 12 | 15.06.1946 | Pride Of The Marines R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:17 |
460622 13 | 22.06.1946 | Front Page R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:30:01 |
460629 14 | 29.06.1946 | Star Is Born R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:20 |
460703 15 | 03.07.1946 | The Maltese Falcon it Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet und Mary Astor. | 00:27:34 |
460710 16 | 10.06.1946 | Young Mr Lincoln R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:47 |
460717 17 | 17.07.1946 | Prisoner Of Zenda, The R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:01 |
460724 18 | 24.07.1946 | Foreign Correspondent R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:51 |
460731 19 | 31.07.1946 | Hold Back The Dawn R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:30:00 |
460807 20 | 07.08.1946 | Watch On The Rhine R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:53 |
460814 21 | 14.08.1946 | Vivacious Lady (incomplete) R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:13:53 |
460821 22 | 21.08.1946 | Keys Of The Kingdom R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:26:54 |
460828 23 | 28.08.1946 | One Sunday Afternoon R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:09 |
460904 24 | 04.09.1946 | Pinocchio R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:27:45 |
460911 25 | 11.09.1946 | Shadow Of A Doubt R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:23:30 |
460918 26 | 18.09.1946 | White Cliffs Of Dover R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:27:55 |
460925 27 | 25.09.1946 | Guest In The House Mit Kirk Douglas und Anita Louise. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:09 |
461002 28 | 02.10.1946 | My Man Godfrey R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:59 |
461009 29 | 09.10.1946 | It Happened Tomorrow Mit Eddie Bracken und Ann Blythe. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:17 |
461016 30 | 16.10.1946 | Blood On The Sun R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:25:53 |
461023 31 | 23.10.1946 | Devil And Miss Jones R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:26 |
461030 32 | 30.10.1946 | Suspicion Mit Cary Grant und Ann Todd. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:25:22 |
461106 33 | 06.11.1946 | Cheers for Miss Bishop Mit Olivia de Havilland. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:46 |
461113 34 | 13.11.1946 | Night Train R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:28:01 |
461120 35 | 20.11.1946 | Brief Encounter R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:27:43 |
461127 36 | 27.11.1946 | Lost Horizon Mit Ronald Coleman. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:27:05 |
461204 37 | 04.12.1946 | Portrait Of Jenny Mit Joan Fontaine und John Lund. R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:27:31 |
461211 38 | 11.12.1946 | Enchanted Cottage R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:29:54 |
461218 39 | 18.12.1946 | Lost Angel R+Pr: Dee Engelbach, Musik: Leith Stevens. Buch: Frank Wilson. | 00:15:07 |