Playwrights '56
Playwrights '56, aka The Playwright Hour, is a 60 minute live American dramatic anthology series produced by Fred Coe for Showtime Productions. Twenty episodes aired on the National Broadcasting Company from 1955-56.
Stars included Paul Newman, Kim Stanley, Joan Blondell, Lillian Gish, Franchot Tone, Ethel Waters, Jane Wyatt, Mary Astor, Ralph Bellamy, and James Whitmore.
Among its notable writers were Horton Foote, Gore Vidal, Tad Mosel, Arnold Schulman, and A. E. Hotchner. Directors included Arthur Penn, later renowned for Bonnie and Clyde, and Delbert Mann, the 1955 Academy Award winner for directing Marty.
It won one prime-time Emmy.
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