Dusty Portrait

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"Dusty Portrait"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 4
Episode 11
Directed by Delbert Mann
Written by Sumner Locke Elliott
Original air dateMarch 9, 1952 (1952-03-09)
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Dusty Portrait is a 1952 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott. [1] [2] It was based on the Florence Maybrick case. [3]

Contents

Elliott had a very small role. [4]

Premise

A man is the victim of circumstantial evidence.

Cast

1953 Radio Version

Elliott did a radio adaptation of his script. [5] It was produced for the General Motors Hour with Dinah Shearing. [6] [7] [8]

The Adelaide Mail called it "strong, almost faultless drama." [9] The Age called it "an extremely well put together story". [10]

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References

  1. Papers to do with Dustry Portrait at Vanderbilt
  2. "Television this week". The Kansas City Star. 30 March 1952. p. 6D.
  3. "RADIO PLAY BILL". Daily Mirror. No. 3713. New South Wales, Australia. 29 April 1953. p. 24 (Cable Edition). Retrieved 20 September 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  4. "ARTHUR POLKINCIIORNE'S". The Sun. No. 13, 153. New South Wales, Australia. 26 March 1952. p. 17 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 20 September 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Hear Here". Daily Mirror. No. 3684. New South Wales, Australia. 25 March 1953. p. 36 (Late Final Extra). Retrieved 20 September 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  6. "GUY CRITTENDEN'S 2WL RADIO ROUND-UP". South Coast Times And Wollongong Argus . Vol. LIII, no. 32. New South Wales, Australia. 27 April 1953. p. 2 (South Coast Times AND WOLLONGONG ARGUS FEATURE SECTION). Retrieved 20 September 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  7. "Chinese bass for concert tour". The Sun. No. 13, 483. New South Wales, Australia. 28 April 1953. p. 22 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 20 September 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  8. Australian Broadcasting Commission. (25 April 1953), "COMMERCIAL", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1687508341, retrieved 20 September 2024 via Trove
  9. "John Quinn's RADIO ROUND-UP". The Mail (Adelaide) . Vol. 43, no. 2, 134. South Australia. 2 May 1953. p. 59. Retrieved 20 September 2024 via National Library of Australia.
  10. "THE WEEK IN WIRELESS". The Age . No. 30, 578. Victoria, Australia. 2 May 1953. p. 16. Retrieved 20 September 2024 via National Library of Australia.