DuPont Show of the Month
DuPont Show of the Month | |
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Genre | Anthology |
Directed by | Sidney Lumet Ralph Nelson Alex Segal Robert Mulligan |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
Production | |
Running time | 90 minutes |
Production company | Talent Associates |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | September 29, 1957 March 31, 1961 | โ
DuPont Show of the Month was a 90-minute television
During the Golden Age of Television, DuPont Show of the Month was one of numerous anthology series telecast between 1949 and 1962. Superficially, it resembled Playhouse 90 and other anthologies, but DuPont Show of the Month focused less on contemporary dramas and more on adaptations of literary classics, including Oliver Twist, The Prince and the Pauper, Billy Budd, The Prisoner of Zenda, A Tale of Two Cities and The Count of Monte Cristo.
Directors and writers
The directors for the series included Sidney Lumet, Ralph Nelson, Alex Segal and Robert Mulligan.
DuPont Show of the Month was the first anthology series to stage a television dramatization of Thornton Wilder's only novel, The Bridge of San Luis Rey. It also presented original dramas, such as The Lincoln Murder Case. Dale Wasserman wrote for the show, and it was Wasserman's I, Don Quixote on this series (November 9, 1959) that was eventually developed into Man of La Mancha six years later. The plot and much of the dialogue is identical.[citation needed]
Other writers included Sidney Kingsley and Terence Rattigan.
Awards and actors
The show was nominated for a total of 12 Emmy Awards. John Gielgud, Gracie Fields, Richard Burton, Lee J. Cobb, Colleen Dewhurst, Eli Wallach, Hurd Hatfield, Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Maureen O'Hara, Michael Rennie, Suzanne Storrs, Farley Granger, Fritz Weaver, and George C. Scott made appearances. Johnny Washbrook of the My Friend Flicka TV series appeared as Tom Canty in The Prince and the Pauper.
With its stage cast, DuPont Show of the Month telecast the 1958
Episodes
In February 1960, the program presented "Ethan Frome", with Sterling Hayden, Julie Harris, and Clarice Blackburn.[2]