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Cameo Theatre (1950-55)
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CAMEO THEATRE
NBC

Creator and Producer: Albert McCleery

May 16, 1950 - August 21, 1955

 

May 1950-Sep 1950 NBC 8:30-9:00 (Wed)

Jun 1951-Aug 1951 NBC 8:00-8:30 (Mon)

Jan 1952-Apr 1952 NBC 10:00-10:30 (Sun)

Jul 1955-Aug 1955 NBC 10:00-10:30 (Sun)

 

writer Mort Thaw

 

######### Cameo Theatre #######

######### season 1 1950 ########

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1.01 [--] Cameo Theatre: IT TAKES A THIEF

16May50

written by Arthur Miller

starring

Jack Hartley

Marjorie Gateson

 

1.02 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE GREAT MERLINI

23May50

starring

Chester Morris

Mary K. Wells

 

1.03 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE LONG WALK

30May50

starring

Richard Carlyle

Patricia Breslin

 

1.04 [--] Cameo Theatre: MANHATTAN FOOTSTEP

07Jun50

starring

Sam Wanamaker

Tod Andrews

 

1.05 [--] Cameo Theatre: no details 

14Jun50

 

1.06 [--] Cameo Theatre: WEEP FOR THE HEART

21Jun50

starring

Ernest Truex

 

1.07 [--] Cameo Theatre: A DAUGHTER TO THINK ABOUT

28Jun50

starring

Ruth Ford

Tod Andrews

 

1.08 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE CANON'S CURTAIN

19Jul50

starring

Ernest Truex

Eva Condon

 

1.09 [--] Cameo Theatre: LINE OF DUTY

26Jul50

starring

Ed Begley

 

1.10 [--] Cameo Theatre: GOOGAN

02Aug50

starring

Judy Parrish

Billy Green

John Harvey

 

1.11 [--] Cameo Theatre: no details

09Aug50

 

1.12 [--] Cameo Theatre: A POINT OF VIEW

16Aug50

starring

William Post Jr.

 

1.13 [--] Cameo Theatre: SARAH LEE'S CHILDREN

23Aug50

starring

Mildred Natwick

 

1.14 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE WESTLAND CASE

13Sep50

starring

Carol Hughes

Frank Jenks

Preston Foster

 

1.15 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE PAPER SACK

20Sep50

starring

Dennis Harrison

Gavin Gordon

James Little

 

1.16 [--] Cameo Theatre: MURDER IS A MATTER OF OPINION

27Sep50

starring

Freddie Bartholomew

 

 ####### Cameo Theatre ######

####### season 2 1951 ######

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2.01 [--] Cameo Theatre: SPECIAL DELIVERY

18Jun51

starring

June Havoc

Rusty Lane

 

2.02 [--] Cameo Theatre: BLACKOUT

25Jun51

starring

Jeffrey Lynn

Barbara Britton

 

2.03 [--] Cameo Theatre: BETRAYAL

02Jul51

starring

Nina Foch

Philip Reed

 

2.04 [--] Cameo Theatre: AVALANCHE

09Jul51

starring

Constance Bennett

Richard Carlson

 

2.05 [--] Cameo Theatre: DECEPTION

16Jul51

starring

Madge Evans

 

2.06 [--] Cameo Theatre: OF UNSOUND MIND

23Jul51

starring

Philip Reed

Claire Luce

Donald Briggs

 

2.07 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE THIRD TIME

30Jul51

starring

Ilona Massey

 

2.08 [--] Cameo Theatre: STRANGE IDENTITY

06Aug51

starring

Jan Miner

Donald Briggs

 

####### Cameo Theatre ######

####### season 3 1952 ######

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3.01 [--] Cameo Theatre: DARK OF THE MOON

06Jan52

starring

Rita Gam

Alfred Drake

 

3.02 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE GATHERING TWILIGHT

13Jan52

starring

Sylvia Sidney

 

3.03 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE VISIT

20Jan52

starring

John Newland

 

3.04 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE PAPER SACK

27Jan52

starring

Judy Parrish

Dennis Harrison

 

3.05 [--] Cameo Theatre: PROBLEM CHILD

03Feb52

starring

Butch Cavell

 

3.06 [--] Cameo Theatre: PEER GYNT  (Part 1)

24Feb52

written by Henry Ibsen

producer/director Albert McCleery

starring

Douglass Montgomery

Claire Luce

Wesley Addy

Frances Reid

Humphrey Davis

Gavin Gordon

Philip Coolidge

Winfield Hoeny

Larry Newton

Kenneth Kraus

Robert Gunther

 

3.09 [--] Cameo Theatre: PEER GYNT  (Part 2)

02Mar52

second part

same as above

 

3.10 [--] Cameo Theatre: PEER GYNT  (Part 3)

09Mar52

third part

same as above

 

3.11 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE CANON'S CURTAIN

16Mar52

starring

Ernest Truex

 

####### Cameo Theatre ######

####### season 4 1955 ######

############################

Summer season

 

4.01 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE INCA OF PERSUALEM

03Jul55

starring

Cedric Hardwicke

Mary Scott

 

4.02 [--] Cameo Theatre: BENDING OF THE BOUGH

17Jul55

written by Wilton Schiller

directed by Albert McCleery

starring

Guy Williams

Barbara Jean Wong

Angie Dickinson

Synopsis:

A young GI returns from his tour of duty in Japan with a new bride--pregnant and Japanese.

Both encounter much hostility from family and friends, but in the end,

 the GI's mother comes to love the new bride.

 

4.03 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE GROWN ONES

24Jul55

starring

James Drury

Karen Sharpe

Dorothy Granger

 

4.05 [--] Cameo Theatre: THE MAN FROM THE SOUTH

07Aug55

written by Peter Kortner

producer/director Albert McCleery

based on a short story by Roald Dahl

narrated by Charles Addams

starring

Joseph Schildkraut

John Lupton

Mary Webster

Gertrude Michael

Stephen Coit

Charles Addams

Synopsis:

A bizarre story of a sinister wager. In Southern France a man overhears an

American GI boast that his lighter never fails. The man approaches the GI

and challenges him to a bet. The stakes--his expensive car against the little finger of the GI. [RF]

 

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