Producers’ Showcase – Nostalgia Central

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Episodes 37 x 90 minutes

NBC used this all-encompassing title every fourth Monday for three seasons to broadcast lavish 90-minute live color shows featuring unforgettable performances by major Broadway and Hollywood stars.

Peter Pan It was presented on March 7, 1955, with Mary Martin and Cyril Richard in the lead roles. The show was so popular that it was repeated live on the same series less than a year later (January 9, 1956).

Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall make their television drama debut in the film adaptation of The Last Man Petrified forestWhich also starred Henry Fonda. The role of Boogie was the same one that propelled him to Broadway stardom over twenty years ago and which he played on the silver screen as well.

Thornton Wilder Our city It has been adapted for television on Presented by Robert Montgomery In 1950, however, the musical version of the play was broadcast Producers Gallery 1955 is the best-remembered television version of this classic game. Starring Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint Frank Sinatra Where the stage manager sang most of the songs including Love and marriageWhich became a big record for him.

The range of material was broad. Margot Fonteyn and Michael Soames starred in two ballets, sleeping beauty and Cinderella; Frederic March, Claire Trevor, and Geraldine Fitzgerald starred in the film adaptation Dodsworthand Romeo and Juliet It is presented with Claire Bloom, Paul Rogers and John Neville at the head of the cast.

Perhaps the most unusual telecast of the series (due to its contrast with the overall tone of the series) was the series premiere A wide, wide world — envisioned by NBC president Pat Weaver — who took full advantage of the technical marvel of live television to broadcast live entertainment from three countries — the United States, Canada and Mexico — in the same show. This was the first television broadcast between Americans in the history of television.

A wide, wide world It then remained as a regular Sunday series hosted by Dave Garraway.