Academy Award (radio series)
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Academy Award (also listed as Academy Award Theater)[1] is a CBS radio anthology series, which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels, or films.
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Other names | Academy Award Theater |
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Genre | Anthology of movie stories |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Country of origin | United States |
Language(s) | English |
Syndicates | CBS |
Starring | Hollywood film stars |
Written by | Frank Wilson |
Directed by | Dee Englebach |
Produced by | Dee Englebach |
Original release | March 30 ā December 18, 1946 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Sponsored by | House of Squibb |
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Dramas in which actors recreated their original film roles included Henry Fonda in Young Mr. Lincoln, Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, Cary Grant in Suspicion, Gregory Peck in The Keys of the Kingdom, and Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon. Only six actors recreated their own Oscar-winning roles: Fay Bainter, Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Victor McLaglen, Paul Muni, and Ginger Rogers.