''Television Theatre'' is a one-hour American television anthology drama series. Six episodes aired on
CBS
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Fridays from March 25, 1950 to June 2, 1950, alternating weeks with ''
Actors Studio''.
The November 19, 1950, episode was ''Foreign Correspondent'', with
Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he bec ...
,
Laraine Day
Laraine Day (born La Raine Johnson, October 13, 1920 – November 10, 2007) was an American actress, radio and television commentator, and former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) contract star. As a leading lady, she was paired opposite major film sta ...
,
Herbert Marshall
Herbert Brough Falcon Marshall (23 May 1890 – 22 January 1966) was an English stage, screen and radio actor who starred in many popular and well-regarded Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s. After a successful theatrical career in the Uni ...
, and
George Sanders
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth, bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous chara ...
.
Other episodes included ''Dear Brutus'', ''The Little Minister'', ''School for Scandal'', ''Father Malachy's Miracle'', ''Subway Express'', and ''The Shining Hour''.
Among its guest stars were Brian Aherne, Tom Drake (actor), Tom Drake, and Margaret Lindsay.
References
External links
''Television Theatre'' at CVTA
1950s American anthology television series
1950 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
CBS original programming
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