The United States Steel Hour 

In this live drama series, over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.

Stars:

Richard Kiley, Betsy Palmer, Biff McGuire

Won 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 16 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Richard Kiley	...	Charlie Webb / ... 10 episodes, 1953-1961
Betsy Palmer	...	Anne Gaines / ... 9 episodes, 1954-1960
Biff McGuire	...	Alec GRaham / ... 8 episodes, 1956-1963
Mona Freeman	...	Lucy Chalmers / ... 7 episodes, 1960-1962
Hans Conried	...	Arthur Bannister / ... 7 episodes, 1954-1963
Jeff Donnell	...	Eva Dulaney / ... 7 episodes, 1954-1962
Joseph Sweeney	...	Priest / ... 7 episodes, 1954-1961
Edward Andrews	...	Charlie Anders / ... 7 episodes, 1954-1960
Cathleen Nesbitt	...	Cissie Hampshire / ... 7 episodes, 1956-1963
Patty Duke	...	Kathy / ... 6 episodes, 1958-1962
Frank Overton	...	Al / ... 6 episodes, 1954-1963
Jack Carson	...	Enoch McCabe / ... 6 episodes, 1954-1962
Larry Blyden	...	Doc Randolph / ... 6 episodes, 1958-1962
Barry Morse	...	Jeremy Penlove / ... 6 episodes, 1958-1961
Robert Lansing	...	Jim Walton / ... 6 episodes, 1959-1963
Gene Hackman	...	Ed / ... 6 episodes, 1959-1962
Glenda Farrell	...	Edna Huntington / ... 5 episodes, 1960-1963
Diana Lynn	...	Felicia / ... 5 episodes, 1954-1961
Nehemiah Persoff	...	D'Arnault-Olivier / ... 5 episodes, 1955-1958
Truman Smith	...	Charley / ... 5 episodes, 1956-1963
Faye Emerson	...	Dorothy Hilton / ... 5 episodes, 1953-1961
Heywood Hale Broun	...	Bartender / ... 5 episodes, 1954-1962
Teresa Wright	...	Allie Gulliver / ... 5 episodes, 1954-1962
Geraldine Brooks	...	Betty Coogan / ... 5 episodes, 1954-1961
June Lockhart	...	Edith Sealey / ... 5 episodes, 1954-1959
Lori March	...	Billy / ... 5 episodes, 1954-1958
Alexander Clark	...	Bernard / ... 5 episodes, 1955-1960
Peter Mark Richman	...	Dr. Stoddard / ... 5 episodes, 1956-1962
John McGovern	...	Henry Powers / ... 5 episodes, 1956-1961
Ruth White	...	Sister St. Anne / ... 5 episodes, 1958-1963
Lloyd Bochner	...	Lord Harton / ... 5 episodes, 1961-1963

Storyline

In this live drama series, over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.

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Plot Keywords:

company sponsor name in title | anthology | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Did You Know?

Trivia

In this live drama series, over two hundred live plays, covering all aspects of society, were shown.

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Connections

Spoofed in The Bullwinkle Show: The Big Blast or A Many Splintered Thing/The Steal Hour or A Snitch in Time (1961)

User Reviews

An inside the studio homerun

A fine live early TV version of Mark Harris' novel. Given the limitations of a television studio,and doing a show "live",this is a bona fide homerun! Newman is great as Henry "author" Wiggen's,star lefthanded pitcher for the NY Mammoths,who takes the teams dying 3rd string catcher under his wing. Newman does a great adlib at the programs opening when he tosses a scrap of paper towards a wastebasket and misses,saying: "Hell of a pitcher I am,I can't even hit the trash can!"

That scrap of paper is the ONLY miss in this fine dramatization of one of the great baseball novels ever written. Too bad nobody has ever filmed the other two novels in Harris' trilogy about Henry Wiggens!And Newman i

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 October 1953 (USA)

Also Known As:

The U.S. Steel Hour

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Theatre Guild

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White