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Academy Award Theater

39 episodes · 1946 · CBS, Armed Forces Radio Service · Drama

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Each week a star who had been nominated for an Oscar played in a half-hour version of a film, play or novel. Academy Award ran on CBS from March 30 to December 18, 1946, for E. R. Squibb & Sons, opening with Bette Davis in Jezebel. Dee Englebach produced, Frank Wilson wrote the adaptations and Leith Stevens wrote the music. Squibb had signed for years but dropped it after 39 weeks: the stars cost $4,000 a week and good scripts ran short.

Sources: Academy Award Theater, Wikipedia

Episodes

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1946

• Jezebel March 30, 1946 · CBS · 29 min
  The first show. Bette Davis repeats her Oscar-winning role as a headstrong Southern belle. Academy president Jean Hersholt speaks.
• Kitty Foyle April 6, 1946 · 30 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• The Story of Louis Pasteur April 13, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  Louis Pasteur's fight against ignorance and disease.
• The Great McGinty April 20, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A racketeer becomes governor and then decides to go straight.
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs April 27, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  The fairy tale, with the songs from the Disney film.
• Stagecoach May 4, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  The captured outlaw and the dance-hall girl on the stage to Lordsburg.
• If I Were King May 11, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  The poet who became a general of France, handy with a sword and with the ladies.
• My Sister Eileen May 18, 1946 · CBS · 29 min
  Two sisters from Ohio adrift in Greenwich Village. The announcer reveals it will become a radio series with Lucille Ball.
• The Informer May 25, 1946 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
  The Irishman who sold out his friend for money.
• Arise My Love June 1, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A pilot and a girl reporter fall in love in wartime Europe.
• Ruggles of Red Gap June 8, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  An English valet in the wild American West.
• Pride of the Marines June 15, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A Marine blinded in the war comes home to the girl he left behind.
• The Front Page June 22, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A reporter tries to get married and get free of his editor.
• A Star Is Born June 29, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  Hollywood and the star system against love and an ordinary life.
• The Maltese Falcon July 3, 1946 · CBS · 28 min
  Bogart, Mary Astor and Sydney Greenstreet repeat their film roles in the hunt for the black bird.
• Young Mr. Lincoln July 10, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  Two brothers are accused of murder, and a new lawyer named Lincoln takes the case.
• The Prisoner of Zenda July 17, 1946 · 29 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• Foreign Correspondent July 24, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  An American reporter in love with an English girl tracks a Nazi spy ring.
• Hold Back the Dawn July 31, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A down-and-out European marries a schoolteacher to get into America.
• The Watch on the Rhine August 7, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A German anti-Nazi family visits America before the war.
• Vivacious Lady August 14, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A botany professor and his secret, a former Broadway dancer.
• The Keys of the Kingdom August 21, 1946 · CBS · 27 min
  Gregory Peck as a missionary priest in China and his life of faith and service.
• One Sunday Afternoon August 28, 1946 · 30 min
  The Archive copy has no date; Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists this title on August 28, 1946, the date used here.
• Pinocchio September 4, 1946 · CBS · 29 min
  The Disney version of Pinocchio.
• Shadow of a Doubt September 11, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A small-town girl suspects her visiting uncle is a murderer.
• The White Cliffs of Dover September 18, 1946 · 28 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• Guest in the House September 25, 1946 · 29 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• My Man Godfrey October 2, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A Depression-era society family hires a butler found at the city dump.
• It Happened Tomorrow October 9, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  A newspaperman gets hold of tomorrow's paper.
• Blood on the Sun October 16, 1946 · CBS · 29 min
  A crusading editor in prewar Japan uncovers a plan for world conquest.
• The Devil and Miss Jones October 23, 1946 · CBS · 29 min
  A department store owner takes a job in his own shoe department to check on his employees.
• Suspicion October 30, 1946 · CBS · 29 min
  A wife finds her husband has been lying and comes to suspect he's planning murder.
• Cheers for Miss Bishop November 6, 1946 · CBS · 29 min
  A small-town Midwestern teacher's lifetime of devotion.
• Night Train November 13, 1946 · CBS · 29 min
  A British agent snatches a kidnapped scientist from the Gestapo just before the war.
• Brief Encounter November 20, 1946 · CBS · 30 min
  Noel Coward's story of a love that cannot be.
• Lost Horizon November 27, 1946 · Armed Forces Radio Service · 30 min
  Shangri-La, with Ronald Colman.
• Portrait of Jenny December 4, 1946 · 28 min
  Jerry Haendiges' Vintage Radio Logs lists the same title on this date.
• Enchanted Cottage December 11, 1946 · CBS · 29 min
  Love transforms two wounded people in an enchanted cottage.
• Lost Angel December 18, 1946 · CBS · 28 min
  The last show: a girl raised by scientists meets a hard-boiled reporter and discovers love.