ACADEMY AWARD

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     On the air for only one season, this series dramatized many stories taken directly from the movies.  Original film stars were used whenever possible.  Each story that was broadcast, or the stars heard, had been nominated or had won an academy award.  Heard over the CBS network on Saturdays beginning on March 30, 1946.  The program changed to Wednesday broadcasts with the 15th program on July 3, 1946 it continued until the thirty ninth and last broadcast on December 18, 1946.  The series was sponsored by a drug manufacturing company, The House of Squibb. Scripts were written by Frank Wilson and the music was composed by Leith Stevens.

 

C04200 03/30/46 # 1 Jezebel w/Bette Davis

              04/06/46 # 2 Kitty Foyle w/Ginger Rogers

 

C04201 04/13/46 # 3 The Life Of Louis Pasteur w/Paul Muni

              04/20/46 # 4 The Great McGinty w/Brian Donlevy, Gerald Mohr

 

C04202 04/27/46 # 5 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

              05/04/46 # 6 Stagecoach w/Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor

 

C04203 05/11/46 # 7 If I Were King w/Ronald Colman

              05/18/46 # 8 My Sister Eileen w/Janet Blair, Rosalind Russell

 

C04204 05/25/46 # 9 The Informer w/Wallace Ford, Victor McLaglen

              06/01/46 #10 Arise My Love w/Ray Milland

 

C04205 06/08/46 #11 Ruggles Of Red Gap w/Charles Laughton

              06/15/46 #12 Pride Of The Marines w/Rosemary deCamp, John Garfield

 

C04206 06/22/46 #13 The Front Page w/Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien

              06/29/46 #14 A Star Is Born w/Janet Gaynor, Fredric March

 

C04207 07/03/46 #15 The Maltese Falcon w/Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor,

                                         Sydney Greenstreet

              07/10/46 #16 Young Mr. Lincoln w/Henry Fonda

 

C04208 07/17/46 #17 The Prisoner Of Zenda w/Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

              07/24/46 #18 Foreign Correspondent w/Joseph Cotton

 

C04209 07/31/46 #19 Hold Back The Dawn w/Olivia deHavilland

              08/07/46 #20 Watch On The Rhine w/Paul Lucas

 

C04210 08/14/46 #21 Vivacious Lady w/Lana Turner

              08/21/46 #22 Keys Of The Kingdom w/Gregory Peck

 

C04211 08/28/46 #23 One Sunday Afternoon w/James Stewart

              09/04/46 #24 Pinocchio

 

C04212 09/11/46 #25 Shadow Of A Doubt w/Joseph Cotten

              09/18/46 #26 The White Cliffs Of Dover w/Irene Dunn

 

C04213 09/25/46 #27 Guest In The House w/Kirk Douglas, Anita Louise

              10/02/46 #28 My Man Godfrey w/William Powell

 

C04214 10/09/46 #29 It Happened Tomorrow w/Ann Blythe, Eddie Bracken

              10/16/46 #30 Blood On The Sun w/John Garfield

 

C04215 10/23/46 #31 The Devil & Miss Jones w/Charles Coburn

              10/30/46 #32 Suspicion w/Cary Grant

 

C04216 11/06/46 #33 Cheers For Miss Bishop w/Olivia deHavilland

              11/13/46 #34 Night Train w/Rex Harrison

 

C04217 11/20/46 #35 Brief Encounter w/Greer Garson

              11/27/46 #36 Lost Horizon w/Ronald Colman

 

C04218 12/04/46 #37 Portrait Of Jenny w/Joan Fontaine

              12/11/46 #38 Enchanted Cottage w/Peter Lawford, Joan Lorring

 

C04219 12/18/46 #39 Lost Angel w/Margaret O'Brien

 

                           (Last Show Of The Series)