June 7 (1946-06-07) – September 13, 1946 (1946-09-13)
No. of series
1
No. of episodes
15
Audio format
Monaural sound
The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air (1946) is a CBS radio drama series produced, directed by and starring Orson Welles. It was a short-lived summer radio series sponsored by Pabst Blue Ribbon, on Friday evenings at 10 p.m. ET lasting 15 episodes. It harked back to Welles's earlier The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938) and its successor, The Campbell Playhouse, but was not able to replicate its success. The series offered 30-minute adaptations of classic plays and novels, plus some adaptations of popular motion pictures, whereas the original had offered more depth in its 60-minute running time. Although the Mercury Theatre troupe had disbanded when Welles was fired from RKO studios in 1942 and the Mercury players were dismissed with him, this radio series offered a reunion of many Mercury personnel, including Richard Wilson (who would direct the rehearsals) and composer Bernard Herrmann, as well as familiar actors such as Agnes Moorehead and William Alland.
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productions, theMercuryTheatre progressed into its most popular incarnation as TheMercuryTheatre on theAir. The radio series included one ofthe most notable...
"1946 SummerTheatre (Part 2)". Internet Archive. Retrieved 2014-03-01. "TheMercurySummerTheatreoftheAir: Abednego the Slave". Orson Welles on the Air...
screening of Citizen Kane at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood in November 2016. In spring 2017, the University of Michigan Library acquired dozens of unpublished...
(1941). TheMercury Shakespeare: Macbeth. New York, London: Harper & Brothers. OCLC 5818380. The Song of Songs. WorldCat. OCLC 432021453. In the American...
screenwriter and director known as Orson Welles's romantic partner during the later years of his life. Olga Palinkaš (spelled in Hungarian Pálinkás) was born in...
Murrow for the CBS television program Person to Person, which aired in November 1955. Following her marriage, Mori acted in only a handful of projects,...
of the Air for CBS, and Orson Welles Commentaries for ABC. While MercurySummerTheatre featured half-hour adaptations of some classic Mercury radio shows...
1946: TheMercurySummerTheatreoftheAir, 28 June 1946, adapted by Norman Corwin, with Orson Welles and Alice Frost 1948: The Lux Radio Theatre, 14 June...
innovative work in radio, theatre and film. He is widely considered one ofthe greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time. While in his twenties...
Radio Theatre (5 June 1944) Victor Jory in Jane Eyre by Matinee Theater (3 December 1944) Orson Welles in Jane Eyre by TheMercurySummerTheatreofthe Air...
ofthe Worlds broadcast for Lrrr, the Planet Express crew and a cheese log even when complaining on-air about obvious plot holes in the script. The tape...
Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead vocalist...
starring Orson Welles. This was the germ ofthe Five Kings chronicle play to be presented by theMercury this autumn to theTheatre Guild subscribers." Welles's...
Singular before gaining the official title TheMercuryTheatre on theAir. An adaptation of Treasure Island was scheduled for the program's first broadcast...
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