[N.B.C trade releases]. (1957)

Page scan 00029 from [N.B.C trade releases].

Record Details:

Title:
[N.B.C trade releases].
Date:
1957
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : National Broadcasting Company]
Volume:
[N.B.C trade releases].
Leaf #:
00029
Language:
English
Subjects:
National Broadcasting Company -- Periodicals, Television programs -- United States -- Periodicals","Radio programs -- United States -- Periodicals","Press releases
Contributor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Sponsor:
University of Maryland, College Park
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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NEWS October 3 > 1957 ED WYNN TO STAR IN »0N BORROWED TIME ' ON 'HALLMARK HALL OF FAME' COLORCAST WITH CLAUDE RAINS AS SPECIAL GUEST HALLMARK HALL OF FAME will present Ed Wynn as star and Claude Rains as special guest in James Costigan's adaptation of Paul Osborn's Broadway hit fantasy, "On Borrowed Time," Sunday, Nov, 17 (NBC-TV, in color and black and white, 5*30-7 p.m,,. EST), Dennis Kohler is also cast in a prominent role. This will be the second of six major productions of "Hall¬ mark Hall of Fame," on NBC-TV during the current season. The original play, based on a novel by Lawrence Edward Watkin, made its Broadway bow Feb. 3> 1938, and ran f°r l6l performances . Burns Mantle, who included it in his selection of the ten best plays of the season, wrote: "It was enthusiastically welcomed by the professional play reviewers, both for its own sake and because it brought one of their favorite actors, Dudley Digges, to stardom after 40 years of fine service to the theatre." Brooks Atkinson's review in the New York Times of Feb 4, 1938* read, in part: "Something blissful has come to town,. , a vastly / (more) COMPANY, 30 ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NEW YORK 20, NEW YORK PRESS DEPARTMENT, NATIONAL BROADCASTING