Academy Award Theater Series Info
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Academy Award Theater (aka Academy Award) was a CBS radio anthology series which presented 30-minute adaptations of plays, novels or films.
The program aired Saturdays at 7pm through June and then moved to Wednesdays at 10pm. Frank Wilson scripted the 30-minute adaptations for producer Dee Englebach, and Leith Stevens provided the music. The sound effects crew included Gene Twombly, Jay Roth, Clark Casey and Berne Surrey.
The series began March 30, 1946, with Bette Davis, Anne Revere and Fay Bainter in Jezebel. It was an expensive show to produce since the stars cost $4,000 a week, and another $1,600 went each week to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the use of their name in the show’s title.
Dramas in which actors recreated their original film roles included Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, Cary Grant in Suspicion and Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon.
The series ended December 18, 1946, with Margaret O’Brien and Jeff Chandler in Lost Angel.
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