"The Thin Air" | |
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Philco Television Playhouse episode | |
Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 1 |
Directed by | Vincent J. Donehue |
Written by | Sumner Locke Elliott |
Original air date | September 21, 1952 |
Running time | 60 mins |
The Thin Air is a 1952 American television play that was an episode of Philco Television Playhouse . [1] [2]
It was based on the real life disappearance of Dorothy Arnold. [3]
A young girl disappears on the night of her engagement party.
Elliott also adapted the script for radio, and a play version was broadcast in Australia in 1954 for The General Motors Hour. [4]
The Age wrote "it made excellent listening." [5]
"The Thin Air" | |
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The Kaiser Aluminum Hour episode | |
Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 17 |
Directed by | Fielder Cook |
Written by | Sumner Locke Elliott |
Original air date | February 26, 1957 |
Running time | 60 mins |
Elliott reworked the material for Whereabouts Unknown, an episode of The Kaiser Aluminum Hour starring MacDonald Carey and Kim Hunter. [6] [7]
The Buffalo News wrote "Kim Hunter had a great role and she lived it up to the hilt... the play built to a poignant finale." [8]
The Atlanta Journal called it a "superficial drama" which "wasted the talents of Kim Hunter." [9]
Kim Hunter was an American theatre, film, and television actress. She achieved prominence for portraying Stella Kowalski in the original production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, which she reprised for the 1951 film adaptation, and won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Armstrong Circle Theatre is an American anthology drama television series which ran from June 6, 1950, to June 25, 1957, on NBC, and from October 2, 1957, to August 28, 1963, on CBS. It alternated weekly with The U.S. Steel Hour. It finished in the Nielsen ratings at number 19 for the 1950–51 season and number 24 for 1951–52. The principal sponsor was Armstrong World Industries.
Harold Thomas Gregson, known professionally as John Gregson, was an English actor of stage, television and film, with 40 credited film roles. He was best known for his crime drama and comedy roles.
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David Wayne was an American stage and screen actor with a career spanning over 50 years.
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Ford Theatre, spelled Ford Theater for the original radio version and known, in full, as The Ford Television Theatre for the TV version, is a radio and television anthology series broadcast in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s. At various times the television series appeared on all three major television networks, while the radio version was broadcast on two separate networks and on two separate coasts. Ford Theatre was named for its sponsor, the Ford Motor Company, which had an earlier success with its concert music series, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour (1934–42).
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Lloyd Berrell was a New Zealand actor who played Reuben "Roo" Webber in the original Sydney production of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. He worked extensively in Australian radio and theatre, appearing in a large portion of the films being shot locally at that time. He also starred in the original stage production of Sumner Locke Elliott's Rusty Bugles as well as numerous productions for the Mercury Theatre.
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