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Macbeth

Synopsis
US television production with Charlton Heston as Macbeth.
Series
Westinghouse Studio One
Language
English
Country
United States
Medium
Television
Transmission details
22 Oct 1951 (Channel: CBS)
Duration
60 mins

Credits

Director
Franklin Schaffner
Producer
Worthington Miner
Writer
William Shakespeare
Cast
Charlton HestonMacbeth
Judith EvelynLady Macbeth
Darren McGavinMacduff
Michael JayFleance

Additional Details

Production type
Television and Radio Drama
Plays
Macbeth
Subjects
Drama
Keywords
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Notes

Notes
The cataloguing record from UCLA records that commercials during the transmission included the announcement - "Crusade for Freedom. Needs your help to build more freedom radio stations in Europe and the far East. Your contribution will make you a soldier in the Cold War against Communist lies’.

Bowling Green State University hold a typescript.
History
Season 4, episode 6.
Reviews
Reviewed by Jack Gould in New York Times (24 October 1951), Gould wrote ‘a striving for unique pictorial composition which defeated its own ends because the viewer was so abundantly conscious of camera movement’.

Production Company

Name

CBS Television

Sponsor

Name

Westinghouse Electronic Corporation

Archive

Name

Paley Center for Media

Web
http://www.paleycenter.org/ External site opens in new window
Phone
(212) 621-6600
Address
25 West 52 Street
New York
New York
110019
USA
Notes
Formerly Museum of Television and Radio (MTR). The name changed in 2007.
Name

UCLA Film & Television Archive

Email
arsc@ucla.edu
Web
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/access/databases.html External site opens in new window
Phone
(310) 206 5388
Fax
(310) 206 5392
Address
Individual Access
Archive Study and Research Center
46 Powell Library
302 East Melnitz
Los Angeles
CA90095-1323
USA

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