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- ACADEMY AWARD (THEATER)
The Academy Award (Theater) began its full 39 week season with a high note -
with Bette Davis in her Oscar winning role in Jezebel. By looking at the
list of actors who appeared during the series you can see that this series
ranked up there with the Lux Radio Theater in its range of movies chosen to
be dramatized as well as the actors involved. Gene Hersholt, veteran radio
and movie star spoke as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences during the first show welcoming the E.R. Squibb Co., giant pharmaceut-
ical company as sponsor. These 30 minute programs consisted of dramnatizations
of movies whose pictures, players, techniques and skills won or were nominated
for the coveted golden Oscars.
First show: Mar 30, 1946 Last Show: Dec 18, 1946 Episodes: 39
NO. DATE
TITLE
CAST
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1 Mar 30, 1946 Jezebel
Bette Davis*, Anne Revere, Fay Bainter*
2 Apr 6, 1946 Kitty Foyle
Ginger Rogers*
3 Apr 13, 1946 Story of Louis
Pasteur Paul Muni*
4 Apr 20, 1946 Great McGinty
Brian Donlevy
5 Apr 27, 1946 Snow White and 7
Dwarfs No cast credits given
6 May 4, 1946 Stagecoach
Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor
7 May 11, 1946 If I Were King
Ronald Colman
8 May 18, 1946 My Sister Eileen
Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair
9 May 25, 1946 Informer
Victor McLaglen*, Margot Grahame
10 Jun 1, 1946 Arise, My Love
Ray Milland
11 Jun 8, 1946 Ruggles of Red
Cap Charles Laughton,
Charlie Ruggles
12 Jun 15, 1946 Pride of the Marines
John Garfield, Rosemary DeCamp
13 Jun 22, 1946 Front Page
Pat O'Brien, Adolph Menjou
14 Jun 29, 1946 Star Is Born
Frederic March
15 Jul 3, 1946 Maltese Falcon
Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor
16 Jul 10, 1946 Young Mr. Lincoln
Henry Fonda
17 Jul 17, 1946 Prisoner of Zenda
Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Virginia Bruce
18 Jul 24, 1946 Foreign Correspondent
Joseph Cotten
19 Jul 31, 1946 Hold Back the Dawn
Olivia DeHaviland, Jean Pierre Aumont
20 Aug 7, 1946 Watch on the
Rhine Paul Lukas*
21 Aug 14, 1946 Vivacious Lady
Lana Turner
22 Aug 21, 1946 Keys of the Kingdom
Gregory Peck
23 Aug 28, 1946 One Sunday Afternoon
James Stewart
24 Sep 4, 1946 Pinocchio
No cast credits given
25 Sep 11, 1946 Shadow of a Doubt
Joseph Cotten, Jeff Chandler
26 Sep 18, 1946 White Cliffs of Dover
Irene Dunne, C. Aubrey Smith
27 Sep 25, 1946 Guest in the House
Anita Louise, Kirk Douglas
28 Oct 2, 1946 My Man Godfrey
William Powell
29 Oct 9, 1946 It Happened
Tomorrow Eddie Bracken, Ann Blyth
30 Oct 16, 1946 Blood on the Sun
John Garfield
31 Oct 23, 1946 Devil and Miss Jones
Charles Coburn, Virginia Mayo
32 Oct 30, 1946 Suspicion
Cary Grant, Ann Todd
33 Nov 6, 1946 Cheers for Miss
Bishop Olivia deHaviland
34 Nov 13, 1946 Night Train
Rex Harrison
35 Nov 20, 1946 Brief Encounter
Greer Garson
36 Nov 27, 1946 Lost Horizon
Ronald Colman
37 Dec 4, 1946 Portrait of Jenny
Joan Fontaine, John Lund
38 Dec 11, 1946 Enchanted Cottage
Peter Lawford, Joan Loring
39 Dec 18, 1946 Lost Angel
Margaret O'Brien, Jeff Chandler
* appeared in original movie & won Oscar for role