Academy Award Theater


The Academy Award (Theater) began its full 39 week season with a high note -
with Bette Davis in her Oscar winning role in Jezebel. By looking at the
list of actors who appeared during the series you can see that this 
series ranked up there with the Lux Radio Theater in its range of movies 
chosen to be dramatized as well as the actors involved. Gene Hersholt, 
veteran radioand movie star spoke as president of the Academy of 
Motion Picture Arts andSciences during the first show welcoming the 
E.R. Squibb Co., giant pharmaceutical company as sponsor. These 30 
minute programs consisted of dramnatizations of movies whose pictures, 
players, techniques and skills won or were nominatedfor the coveted golden Oscars.

The series continued offering such stellar productions as "Stagecoach" 
with Randolph Scott, "The Maltese Falcon" with Humphrey Bogart, "Young 
Mr. Lincoln" with Henry Fonda, and "Keys of the Kingdom" with Gregory Peck.

The productions were adapted from their screen versions by Frank
Wilson and directed by Dee Englebock.  Original movie casts were used
wherever possible. Alternately, other big name actors were hired to
fill in.

    First show: Mar 30, 1946     Last Show: Dec 18, 1946    Episodes: 39



 46/03/30    1  Jezebel - Bette Davis*, Anne Revere, Fay Bainter*
 46/04/06    2  Kitty Foyle - Ginger Rogers*
 46/04/13    3  The Life of Louis Pasteur - Paul Muni*
 46/04/20    4  The Great McGinty - Brian Donlevy
 46/04/27    5  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
 46/05/04    6  Stagecoach - Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor
 46/05/11    7  If I Were King - Ronald Colman
 46/05/18    8  My Sister Eileen - Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair
 46/05/25    9  The Informer - Victor McLaglen*, Margot Grahame
 46/06/01   10  Arise, My Love - Ray Milland
 46/06/08   11  Ruggles of Red Gap - Charles Laughton, Charlie Ruggles
 46/06/15   12  Pride of the Marines - John Garfield, Rosemary DeCamp
 46/06/22   13  Front Page -  Pat O'Brien, Adolph Menjou
 46/06/29   14  A Star Is Born - Frederic March
 46/07/03   15  The Maltese Falcon - Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet,
 46/07/10   16  Young Mr Lincoln - Henry Fonda
 46/07/17   17  Prisoner of Zenda -  Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Virginia Bruce
 46/07/24   18  Foreign Correspondent - Joseph Cotten
 46/07/31   19  Hold Back the Dawn - Olivia DeHaviland, Jean Pierre Aumont
 46/08/07   20  The Watch on the Rhine - Paul Lukas*
 46/08/14   21  Vivacious Lady - Lana Turner
 46/08/21   22  Keys of the Kingdom - Gregory Peck
 46/08/28   23  One Sunday Afternoon - James Stewart
 46/09/04   24  Pinocchio
 46/09/11   25  Shadow of a Doubt - Joseph Cotten, Jeff Chandler
 46/09/18   26  White Cliffs of Dover - Irene Dunne, C. Aubrey Smith
 46/09/25   27  Guest in the House -  Anita Louise, Kirk Douglas
 46/10/02   28  My Man Godfrey -  William Powell
 46/10/09   29  It Happened Tomorrow -  Eddie Bracken, Ann Blyth
 46/10/16   30  Blood on the Sun - John Garfield
 46/10/23   31  Devil and Miss Jones - Charles Coburn, Virginia Mayo
 46/10/30   32  Suspicion - Cary Grant, Ann Todd
 46/11/06   33  Cheers for Miss Bishop - Olivia deHaviland
 46/11/13   34  Night Train - Rex Harrison
 46/11/20   35  Brief Encounter -Greer Garson
 46/11/27   36  Lost Horizon - Ronald Colman
 46/12/04   37  Portrait of Jenny - Joan Fontaine, John Lund
 46/12/11   38  Enchanted Cottage - Peter Lawford, Joan Loring
 46/12/18   39  Lost Angel - Margaret O'Brien, Jeff Chandler