Best Plays - "Night Must Fall" (12-21-52)

Night Must Fall (Aired December 21, 1952)

 

INTRO: Bob Camardella Plays "Curtis Mayfield's People Get Ready" (1965)

Listeners get a taste of plays from the Broadway stage in this anthology series. The featured works were from authors as talented and varied as Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Noel Coward and William Shakespeare. Stars such as Vincent Price, Burgess Meredith, and Maureen Stapleton played roles in such notable dramas as The Glass Menagerie, Of Mice and Men and Macbeth. Plenty of comedies, including a performance of Arsenic and Old Lace starring Boris Karloff, were on the bill as well. As if to guarantee the show’s quality, it's host was John Chapman, a theater critic in New York City “where the American stage begins”.

 

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December 21, 1952. NBC network. "Night Must Fall". Sustaining. The program has also been dated November 19, 1952. John Chapman (host), Mary Boland, Alfred Drake, Emlyn Williams (author), Carmen Matthews, Richard Newton, Mary Michael, George Lefferts (adaptor, transcriber), Horace Braham, Cathleen Cordell, William Welch (supervisor), Fred Weihe (director), Robert Denton (announcer). 1:00.57. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.