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"Producers' Showcase" The Skin of Our Teeth (1955)
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"Producers' Showcase" (1954)Original Air Date:
11 August 1955 (Season 1, Episode 12)Plot:
This Thornton Wilder play, the story of life on Earth from prehistoric times through World War II as lived by Mr... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Rewrite of "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce moreCast
(Episode Credited cast) | George Abbott | ... | Mr. Antrobus |
| Jonathan Anderson | ... | Professor |
| Heller Halliday | ... | Gladys |
| Helen Hayes | ... | Mrs. Antrobus |
 | Mary Martin | ... | Sabina |
 | Don Murray | ... | Henry Antrobus |
| Florence Reed | ... | Fortune Teller |
| Frank Silvera | ... | Judge |
| John Cameron Swayze | ... | Narrator |
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This play is a rip-off of "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce. There are literaly hundreds of parallels and Wilder took a four-line quote from Joyce's work verbatim, never crediting Joyce in the least.
Fortunately for Wilder, `The Skin of Our Teeth' was written in 1941, the `Wake' was published in 1939, with the war breaking out and Wilder being in the military nobody wanted to discredit a soldier.
But the facts remain. In 1945 the Saturday Evening Post published an article `The Skin of Who's Teeth, Part II' by Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson exposing the whole mess.
Cheaters never prosper.