RadioHeyday.com - 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