ACADEMY AWARD (THEATER)
The Academy Award (Theater) began its full 39 week season with a high note -
with Bette Davis in her Oscar winning role in Jezebel. By looking at the
list of actors who appeared during the series you can see that this series
ranked up there with the Lux Radio Theater in its range of movies chosen to
be dramatized as well as the actors involved. Gene Hersholt, veteran radio
and movie star spoke as president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences during the first show welcoming the E.R. Squibb Co., giant pharmaceut-
ical company as sponsor. These 30 minute programs consisted of dramnatizations
of movies whose pictures, players, techniques and skills won or were nominated
for the coveted golden Oscars.
First show: Mar 30, 1946 Last Show: Dec 18, 1946 Episodes: 39
NO. DATE TITLE CAST
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1 Mar 30, 1946 Jezebel Bette Davis*, Anne Revere, Fay Bainter*
2 Apr 6, 1946 Kitty Foyle Ginger Rogers*
3 Apr 13, 1946 Story of Louis Pasteur Paul Muni*
4 Apr 20, 1946 Great McGinty Brian Donlevy
5 Apr 27, 1946 Snow White and
Seven Dwarfs No cast credits given
6 May 4, 1946 Stagecoach Randolph Scott, Claire Trevor
7 May 11, 1946 If I Were King Ronald Colman
8 May 18, 1946 My Sister Eileen Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair
9 May 25, 1946 Informer Victor McLaglen*, Margot Grahame
10 Jun 1, 1946 Arise, My Love Ray Milland
11 Jun 8, 1946 Ruggles of Red Cap Charles Laughton, Charlie Ruggles
12 Jun 15, 1946 Pride of the Marines John Garfield, Rosemary DeCamp
13 Jun 22, 1946 Front Page Pat O'Brien, Adolph Menjou
14 Jun 29, 1946 Star Is Born Frederic March
15 Jul 3, 1946 Maltese Falcon Humphrey Bogart, Sydney Greenstreet,
Mary Astor
16 Jul 10, 1946 Young Mr. Lincoln Henry Fonda
17 Jul 17, 1946 Prisoner of Zenda Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Virginia Bruce
18 Jul 24, 1946 Foreign Correspondent Joseph Cotten
19 Jul 31, 1946 Hold Back the Dawn Olivia DeHaviland, Jean Pierre Aumont
20 Aug 7, 1946 Watch on the Rhine Paul Lukas*
21 Aug 14, 1946 Vivacious Lady Lana Turner
22 Aug 21, 1946 Keys of the Kingdom Gregory Peck
23 Aug 28, 1946 One Sunday Afternoon James Stewart
24 Sep 4, 1946 Pinocchio No cast credits given
25 Sep 11, 1946 Shadow of a Doubt Joseph Cotten, Jeff Chandler
26 Sep 18, 1946 White Cliffs of Dover Irene Dunne, C. Aubrey Smith
27 Sep 25, 1946 Guest in the House Anita Louise, Kirk Douglas
28 Oct 2, 1946 My Man Godfrey William Powell
29 Oct 9, 1946 It Happened Tomorrow Eddie Bracken, Ann Blyth
30 Oct 16, 1946 Blood on the Sun John Garfield
31 Oct 23, 1946 Devil and Miss Jones Charles Coburn, Virginia Mayo
32 Oct 30, 1946 Suspicion Cary Grant, Ann Todd
33 Nov 6, 1946 Cheers for Miss Bishop Olivia deHaviland
34 Nov 13, 1946 Night Train Rex Harrison
35 Nov 20, 1946 Brief Encounter Greer Garson
36 Nov 27, 1946 Lost Horizon Ronald Colman
37 Dec 4, 1946 Portrait of Jenny Joan Fontaine, John Lund
38 Dec 11, 1946 Enchanted Cottage Peter Lawford, Joan Loring
39 Dec 18, 1946 Lost Angel Margaret O'Brien, Jeff Chandler
* appeared in original movie & won Oscar for role
Dick Judge, the author of this log can be reached at dickjudge@juno.com