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"The United States Steel Hour" (1953)
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27 October 1953 (USA) morePlot:
Live drama series that was one of the best TV shows ever shown. Over 200 live plays covering all aspects of society were shown.Plot Keywords:
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Won 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 11 nominations moreUser Comments:
An inside the studio homerun moreCast
(Series Cast Summary - 24 of 262) | Richard Kiley | ... | Charlie Webb / ... (10 episodes, 1953-1961) |
| Betsy Palmer | ... | Anne Gaines / ... (9 episodes, 1954-1960) |
| Jeff Donnell | ... | Eva Dulaney / ... (7 episodes, 1954-1962) |
| Biff McGuire | ... | Gil Wayne / ... (7 episodes, 1956-1963) |
| Barry Morse | ... | Jeremy Penlove / ... (7 episodes, 1958-1961) |
| Mona Freeman | ... | Lucy Chalmers / ... (7 episodes, 1960-1962) |
 | Jack Carson | ... | Enoch McCabe / ... (6 episodes, 1954-1962) |
| Edward Andrews | ... | Charlie Anders / ... (6 episodes, 1954-1959) |
| Cathleen Nesbitt | ... | Cissie Hampshire (6 episodes, 1956-1963) |
| Larry Blyden | ... | Doc Randolph / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1962) |
 | Patty Duke | ... | Kathy / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1962) |
| Faye Emerson | ... | Dorothy Hilton / ... (5 episodes, 1953-1961) |
 | Teresa Wright | ... | Allie Gulliver / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1962) |
| Hans Conried | ... | Arthur Bannister / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1961) |
| Diana Lynn | ... | Felicia / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1961) |
| June Lockhart | ... | Edith Sealey / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1959) |
| Lori March | ... | Billy / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1958) |
 | Peter Mark Richman | ... | John West / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1962) |
| John McGovern | ... | Henry Powers / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1961) |
| Lisa Daniels | ... | Nancy / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1957) |
| Ruth White | ... | Sister St. Anne / ... (5 episodes, 1958-1963) |
 | Robert Lansing | ... | Jim Walton / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1963) |
 | Gene Hackman | ... | Ed / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1962) |
| Glenda Farrell | ... | Edna Huntington / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1963) |
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USA:60 minCountry:
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A fine live early TV version of Mark Harris' novel. Given the limitations of a television studio,and doing a show "live",this is a bona fide homerun! Newman is great as Henry "author" Wiggen's,star lefthanded pitcher for the NY Mammoths,who takes the teams dying 3rd string catcher under his wing. Newman does a great adlib at the programs opening when he tosses a scrap of paper towards a wastebasket and misses,saying: "Hell of a pitcher I am,I can't even hit the trash can!"
That scrap of paper is the ONLY miss in this fine dramatization of one of the great baseball novels ever written. Too bad nobody has ever filmed the other two novels in Harris' trilogy about Henry Wiggens!And Newman i