"The United States Steel Hour" (1953) TV series 1953-1963

Writer:

William Dean Howells (novel)

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | unknown

Release Date:

27 October 1953 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Live drama series that was one of the best TV shows ever shown. Over 200 live plays covering all aspects of society were shown.

Plot Keywords:

Company Sponsor Name In Title | Anthology

Awards:

Won 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 12 nominations

Cast

Richard Kiley	...	Charlie Webb / ... (10 episodes, 1953-1961)
Betsy Palmer	...	Anne Gaines / ... (9 episodes, 1954-1960)
Jeff Donnell	...	Eva Dulaney / ... (7 episodes, 1954-1962)
Biff McGuire	...	Gil Wayne / ... (7 episodes, 1956-1963)
Barry Morse	...	Jeremy Penlove / ... (7 episodes, 1958-1961)
Mona Freeman	...	Lucy Chalmers / ... (7 episodes, 1960-1962)
Jack Carson	...	Enoch McCabe / ... (6 episodes, 1954-1962)
Hans Conried	...	Arthur Bannister / ... (6 episodes, 1954-1961)
Edward Andrews	...	Charlie Anders / ... (6 episodes, 1954-1959)
Cathleen Nesbitt	...	Cissie Hampshire (6 episodes, 1956-1963)
Larry Blyden	...	Doc Randolph / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1962)
Patty Duke	...	Kathy / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1962)
Faye Emerson	...	Dorothy Hilton / ... (5 episodes, 1953-1961)
Teresa Wright	...	Allie Gulliver / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1962)
Diana Lynn	...	Felicia / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1961)
June Lockhart	...	Edith Sealey / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1959)
Lori March	...	Billy / ... (5 episodes, 1954-1958)
Nehemiah Persoff	...	Dr. Arnault & Oliver / ... (5 episodes, 1955-1958)
Peter Mark Richman	...	John West / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1962)
John McGovern	...	Henry Powers / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1961)
Lisa Daniels	...	Nancy / ... (5 episodes, 1956-1957)
Ruth White	...	Sister St. Anne / ... (5 episodes, 1958-1963)
Robert Lansing	...	Jim Walton / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1963)
Gene Hackman	...	Ed / ... (5 episodes, 1959-1962)
Glenda Farrell	...	Edna Huntington / ... (5 episodes, 1960-1963)

Also Known As:

The U.S. Steel Hour (USA) (alternative title)

Runtime:

USA:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Theatre Guild

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Mike Wallace Interview: Rod Serling" (1959)

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