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Theatre Guild United States Steel Hour records

Title: Theatre Guild United States Steel Hour records, 1956-1963.
Author: Theatre Guild.
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 1	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1975-006 Box 1	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 2	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1975-006 Box 2	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 3	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1975-006 Box 3	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 4	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1975-006 Box 4	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Box 5	Mixed material	Supervised use	*T-Mss 1975-006 Box 5	Offsite

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1.88 linear feet (5 boxes )

Summary

The Theatre Guild United States Steel Hour records are comprised of correspondence, financial records, casting, rehearsal, and recording notes, as well as some scripts for productions that were telecast as part of The United States Steel Hour television series.

Uniform Title

United States Steel Hour (Television program)

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Genre/Form

Correspondence.

Access (note)

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Biography (note)

The United States Steel Hour (1955-1963) was an anthology television series that was a successor to a similar radio program, The Theatre Guild on the Air (1945-1953) .

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Call Number

*T-Mss 1975-006

OCLC

181654371

Author

Theatre Guild.

Title

Theatre Guild United States Steel Hour records, 1956-1963.

Restricted Access

Collection is open to the public. Library policy on photography and photocopying will apply. Advance notice may be required.

Biography

The United States Steel Hour (1955-1963) was an anthology television series that was a successor to a similar radio program, The Theatre Guild on the Air (1945-1953) . By the 1940s, the Theatre Guild, a prestigious theatrical production company, had evolved from its more radical beginnings in 1919 to become established as an almost de facto national theater for the United States. In 1945, as part of an effort to reach a broader audience, the Guild developed a radio program, The Theatre Guild on the Air. This anthology series initially presented live broadcasts of adaptations of plays which had been produced originally by the Guild, such as Ferenc Molnár's The Guardsman (1945) with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. It also occasionally offered dramatic works which had been staged by other producers. First broadcast on the ABC Radio Network (1945-1949), the program's sponsor was the United States Steel Corporation. Arminia Marshall (wife of one of the Guild's original founders, Lawrence Langner) was responsible for coordinating the administrative aspects of the radio program for the Guild. Theatre Guild on the Air was heard on the NBC Radio Network from the fall of 1949 to the spring of 1953, when it was revamped as a television series. The United States Steel Hour, which presented a mixture of original plays for television and adaptations of other works, ran for two seasons on the ABC Television Network. In September 1955, The United States Steel Hour moved to the CBS Television Network, where it remained through 1963. Notable productions over the years included Ira Levin's adaptation of No Time for Sergeants (1955), Rod Serling's Noon on Doomsday (1956), Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) by Arnold Shuman, Survival (1957) by Alfred Brenner, and James Yaffe's version of The Two Worlds of Charlie Gordon (1959). The final episode of the series, another adaptation of J. M. Barrie's The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, starring Lunt and Fontanne, aired on June 12, 1963.

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