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Finding Aid for the Norman Lloyd Scripts for Hollywood Television Theatre, 1970-1976

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Box 1

Actor (no date)

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A musical play starring Herschel Bernardi and George Brown based on the book Actor by Jerome Lawrence. The teleplay is by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee and is a story about the Weisenfreund family, traveling entertainers who emigrated to America at the turn of the century in order to try and work in the American Yiddish Theatre. The youngest member of the Weisenfreund family, Munya, became the celebrated actor Paul Muni, and it is through his eyes that we recollect the early struggles of his family on their arrival in America.

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Andersonville Trail (5/17/70)

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Written by Saul Levitt. Officers of Andersonville Prison tried for war crimes during the Civil War. Directed by George C. Scott. Starring Richard Basehart and William Shatner.

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Another Part of the Forest (10/2/72)

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Written by Lillian Hellman. The story of the ruthless Hubbard family set in the South after the Civil War. Starring Barry Sullivan, Dorothy McGuire. Directed by Daniel Mann.

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Ashes of Mrs. Reasoner (The) (9/18/75)

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By Enid Rudd. Starring Charles Durning, Cara Williams, Barbara Colby and Herb Edelman

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Awake and Sing (3/6/72)

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Written by Clifford Odets. Warm, human slice of life in the 30's. Starring Walter Matthau and Marty Ritt. Directed by Norman Lloyd.

Box 2

Beginning to End (11/4/71)

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A selection of the greatest of Samuel Beckett's plays photographed in the Mohave Desert. Adapted by and starring Jack MacGowran.

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Big Fish, Little Fish (1/5/71)

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Written by Hugh Wheeler. Starring William Windom and Lou Gossett.

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Birdbath (10/28/71)

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Written by Leonard Melfi. Encounter of a boy and girl with sinister results. Starring Patty Duke and James Farentino.

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Carola (2/5/73)

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Written by Jean Renoir. World War II intrigue revolving around a beautiful woman and the French resistance. Starring Leslie Caron and Mel Ferrer. Directed by Norman Lloyd.

Box 2

Carpenters (12/19/73)

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Written by Steve Tesich. Black comedy about family life and the struggles between the father and his brood. Starring Vincent Gardenia. Directed by Norman Lloyd.

Box 2

Chinese Prime Minister (The) (10/23/74)

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Written by Enid Bagnold. Dame Judith's first comedy about a septuagenarian actress who decides it is time for herself rather than for her career or her family. Starring Dame Judith Anderson. Directed by Brian Murray and George Turpin. Directed by Brian Murray and George Turpin.

Box 2

Double Solitaire (1/16/74)

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Written by Robert Anderson. Drama concerning disintegration of marriage and how one couple deals with it. Starring Richard Crenna and Susan Clark.

Box 5

Fatal Weakness (The) (9/30/76)

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By George Kelly. The play is followed by an interview with Mr. Kelly's niece, Princess Grace of Monaco. Norman Lloyd produced and directed Eva Marie Saint in a witty drawing room comedy written by the late George Kelly in 1946.

Box 3

For the Use of the Hall (1/2/75)

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Written by Oliver Hailey. A sophisticated comedy about success, failure and coming to terms with one's limitations. Starring Susan Anspach, Barbara Barrie. Directed by Lee Grant and Rick Bennewitz.

Box 3

Gondola (1/9/74)

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Written by Alfred Hayes. A southern girl accuses two innocent black men of rape and their attorney attempts to bring out the truth. Starring Norman Lloyd.

Box 3

Hemingway Play (The) (3/11/76)

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Examines the contradictions between the public myth and the private character of the great writer. Starring Alexander Scourby Samantha Eggar, Mitch Ryan.

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Incident at Vichy (2/5/73)

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Written by Arthur Laurents. A group of new prisoners of Nazis attempt to discover what is happening to them and how they are to deal with it. Directed by Stacy Keach.

Box 3

Invitation to a March (5/29/72)

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Written by Arthur Laurents. Starring Blythe Danner and Michael Saks.

Box 4

Knuckle (6/3/75)

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By David Hare, adapted by David Scott Milton. Dedicated to Ross MacDonald, the play is in the genre. of the Southern California mystery story. A young man, investigating the circumstances of his sister's disappearance, reveals hidden intrigue and corruption. Starring Jack Cassidy, Eileen Brennan, Michael Cristofer, Gretchen Corbett.

Box 4

Ladies of the Corridor (The) (4/10/75)

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By Dorothy Parker and Arnaud d'Usseau. Written in the fifties, the play is about the wasted lives of a group of women living in a residential hotel in New York. Starring Cloris Leachman and Jane Wyatt. Directed by Robert Stevens.

Box 4

Lady's Not for Burning (The) (11/18/74)

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Written by Christopher Fry. Starring Richard Chamberlain and Eileen Atkins. Directed by Joseph Hardy.

Box 4

Last of Mrs. Lincoln (The) (9/16/76)

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Written by James Prideaux. Throws a new light on the much misunderstood widow of the President. A brilliant tour-de-force performance from Julie Harris. Stars Julie Harris, Michael Cristofer. Directed by George Schaefer.

Box 4

Lemonade (10/21/71)

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Written by James Prideaux. Starring Eileen Herlie and Martha Scott.

Box 6

Man of Destiny (11/21/73)

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George Bernard Shaw tells a story about Napoleon and a very clever girl he must deal with during one of his campaigns. Starring Stacy Keach and Samantha Eggar.

Box 4

Me (11/28/73)

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Written by Gardner McKay. A young mental retard has complete control of his home and family. Even after they discover he's been faking for years. Starring Geraldine Fitzgerald and Richard Dreyfuss.

Box 5

Montserratx (3/12/71)

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Written by Lillian Hellman. A young mental retard has complete control of his home and family. Even after they discover he's been faking for years.

Box 5

Neighbors (11/18/71)

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Written by Arkady Leokum. Starring Jane Wyatt, Cicely Tyson.

Box 5

Nourish the Beast (6/5/74)

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Original comedy by Steve Tesich, starring Eileen Brennan and John Randolph. Directed by Norman Lloyd.

Box 5

Philemon (10/7/76)

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A musical play by Tom Jones and Harvey Scmidt. Tells the story of an out-of-work clown in the Roman Empire of the third century AD who impersonates a Christian underground leader. Produced and Directed by Norman Lloyd

Box 5

Requiem for a Nun (2/10/75)

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Written by William Faulkner, adapted by Ruth Ford. A drama set in the Faulkner country ,Yoknapatawpha County Mississippi, the play deals with the destiny of two women, one black, who kills the child of her white employer. Starring Sarah Miles.

Box 5

Scarecrow (1/10/72)

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By Percy McKaye. The familiar old American classic adapted from Hawthorn's story about a scarecrow brought to life by the devil. Starring Gene Wilder and Norman Lloyd. Directed by Boris Sagal

Box 5

Shadow of a Gunman (12/4/72)

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Written by Sean O'Casey. Terrorism strikes an Irish tenement with tragic results. Starring Frank Converse, Jack MacGowran, Richard Dreyfuss.

Box 5

Six Characters in Search of an Author (10/14/76)

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Written by Luigi Pirandello, adapted and translated by Paul Avilla Mayer. Starring John Houseman and Andy Griffith. Directed by Stacy Keach

Box 5

Steambath (4/30/73)

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People who have just died are waiting in a steambath to find out where they are to be sent to their final reward. Starring Bill Bixby and Valerie Perrine.

Box 6

Sty of the Blind Pig (The) (5/29/74)

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Written by Philip Hayes Dean. A black family in Chicago in the 30's caught between the old way and the new. Starring Mary Alice. Directed by Ivan Dixon.

Box 6

Winesburg, Ohio (3/5/73)

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Written by Sherwood Anderson. Young writers escape from hometown life. Starring Jean Peters and William Windom.

Box 6

Young Marrieds at Play (12/9/71)

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Written by Jerome Kass. A black married couple and a white married couple at play.

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