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WIDE, WIDE WORLD: AMERICAN THEATRE '58 {"THE THREEPENNY OPERA"} (TV)

Details

  • NETWORK: NBC
  • DATE: March 16, 1958 4:00 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 1:29:00
  • COLOR/B&W: B&W
  • CATALOG ID: T:53955
  • GENRE: Arts documentaries
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Musical revues, comedies, etc. - Excerpts; Theater
  • SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1955-1958
  • COMMERCIALS:
    • TV - Commercials - General Motors Corporation
    • TV - Promos - "The Steve Allen Show"

CREDITS

  • Dave Garroway … Host, Interviewer
  • Harold Clurman … Guest
  • Melvyn Douglas … Guest
  • Eckart, Bill (See also: Eckart, William) … Guest
  • Jean Eckart … Guest
  • Helen Hayes … Guest
  • Arthur Laurents … Guest
  • John McClain … Guest
  • Robert Preston … Guest
  • Willard Swire … Guest
  • Peter Ustinov … Guest
  • Robert Whitehead … Guest
  • Maxwell Anderson
  • Brooks Atkinson
  • Lucille Lortel
  • Mary Morris
  • William Shakespeare
  • Nina Vance
  • For "The Threepenny Opera" segment:
  • Kurt Weill … Composer
  • Bertolt Brecht … Lyricist, Librettist
  • Marc Blitzstein … English adaptation by
  • Carmen Capalbo … Guest
  • Stanley Chase … Guest
  • Ed Asner … Singer
  • Jerry Orbach … Singer
  • Katharine Sergava … Singer