Screen Directors Playhouse (1955)

Original title

Screen Director's Playhouse

Genre

comedy, drama

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 35 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a TV anthology series from the 1950s that adapted famous short stories and original teleplays. Each episode featured different Hollywood actors and sometimes the original film directors.

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What happens

Screen Directors Playhouse (sometimes written as Screen Directors' Playhouse) is an American radio and television anthology series which brought leading Hollywood actors to the NBC microphones beginning in 1949. The radio program broadcast adaptations of films, with original directors of the films sometimes involved in the productions, although their participation was usually limited to introducing the radio adaptations and taking a brief "curtain call" with the cast and host at the end of the program. During the 1955–56 season, the series was seen on television, focusing on original teleplays and several adaptations of famous short stories (such as Robert Louis Stevenson's "Markheim"). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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