OTRAAwards


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This collection features many of the Academy Award-winning films adapted to radio by Lux Theater between 1935 and 1955. It highlights awards given for best film, director, lead or supporting actor, and screenplay. Notable adaptations include works from NBC University Theater and Academy Award Theater, featuring stars like Bette Davis in a half-hour adaptation of Jezebel.

Additional productions include a 1948 Critic's Circle Theater Award presentation with the original Broadway cast of A Streetcar Named Desire, and adaptations featuring A-list substitutes, such as Claudette Colbert in The Awful Truth. The adaptations often showcase original stars, as seen in All About Eve and Sunset Blvd.


This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.

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Such a Fine Collection!


(5 étoiles)

I am so glad to have found this set! OTR is at its best when it presented stories which have an ongoing resonance.