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NBC Matinee Theater, the Glossary

Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from October 31, 1955, to June 27, 1958.^[1]

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A. A. Milne

Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 – 31 January 1956) was an English writer best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh, as well as for children's poetry.

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Abby Mann

Abby Mann (December 1, 1927 – March 25, 2008) was an American film writer and producer.

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Accent on Youth (play)

Accent on Youth is a Broadway play written by Samson Raphaelson which debuted on Christmas Day, 1934.

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Adrian Spies

Adrian Spies (April 17, 1920 – October 2, 1998) was an American screenwriter, active from the 1940s through to the 1980s.

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Agnes Moorehead

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress.

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Alan Young

Alan Young (born Angus Young; November 19, 1919 – May 19, 2016) was a British-born actor, who TV Guide called "the Charlie Chaplin of television".

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Albert McCleery

Albert McCleery (December 30, 1911 – May 13, 1972) was an American pioneering television producer during the 1950s.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.

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Alexander Pushkin

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

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Alfred Ryder

Alfred Ryder (born Alfred Jacob Corn; January 5, 1916 – April 16, 1995) was an American television, stage, radio, and film actor and director, who appeared in over one hundred television shows.

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Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller (July 28, 1874 – August 22, 1942) was an American writer whose poetry actively influenced political opinion.

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Alison's House

Alison's House is a drama play in three acts by American playwright Susan Glaspell.

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Alvin Boretz

Alvin Boretz (June 15, 1919 – July 22, 2010) was an American writer for stage, screen, radio, and television.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Anita Leslie

Anita Theodosia Moira King (née Leslie; first married name Rodzianko; 21 November 1914 – 5 November 1985), generally known as Anita Leslie, was an Irish-born biographer and writer.

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Anita Louise (born Anita Louise Fremault; January 9, 1915 – April 25, 1970) was an American film and television actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938), and The Little Princess (1939).

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Ann Veronica

Ann Veronica is a novel by H. G. Wells published in 1909.

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Anna Maria Alberghetti

Anna Maria Alberghetti (born May 15, 1936) is an Italian-American actress and soprano.

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Anthology series

An anthology series is a written series, radio, television, film, or video game series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short.

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Armina Marshall

Armina Marshall (1895-1991) was a playwright and actress, and the first co-director of New York's Theatre Guild.

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Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing").

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Arnold M. Auerbach

Arnold M. Auerbach (23 May 1912, in New York City, New York – 19 October 1998, in New York City, New York) was an American comedy writer, especially for radio, television and newspapers.

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Arnold Schulman

Arnold Schulman (August 11, 1925 – February 4, 2023) was an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, songwriter and novelist.

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Arrowsmith (novel)

Arrowsmith is a novel by American author Sinclair Lewis, first published in 1925.

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Arthur Hiller

Arthur Hiller, (November 22, 1923 – August 17, 2016) was a Canadian television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 50-year career.

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Arthur O'Connell

Arthur Joseph O'Connell (March 29, 1908 – May 18, 1981) was an American stage, film and television actor, who achieved prominence in character roles in the 1950s.

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Aurand Harris

Aurand Harris (1915–1996) is the most produced playwright for young audiences in the United States.

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Autumn Crocus (play)

Autumn Crocus is a 1931 play by the British writer Dodie Smith.

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Émile Zola

Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (also,; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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Barbara Rush

Barbara Rush (January 4, 1927 – March 31, 2024) was an American actress.

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Barré Lyndon

Barré Lyndon (pseudonym of Alfred Edgar Frederick Higgs) (12 August 1896 – 23 October 1972) was a British playwright and screenwriter.

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Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist.

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Boris Sagal

Boris Sagal (October 18, 1923 – May 22, 1981) was an American television and film director.

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Bradford Dillman

Bradford Dillman (April 14, 1930 – January 16, 2018) was an American actor and author.

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Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is best known for writing the 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.

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Call It a Day (play)

Call It a Day is a play by the British writer Dodie Smith first staged in 1935.

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Captain Brassbound's Conversion

Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900) is a play by G. Bernard Shaw.

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Cecil Kellaway

Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a South African character actor.

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Cesar Romero

César Julio Romero Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994) was an American actor and activist.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Charles Mergendahl

Charles Mergendahl (February 23, 1919 – April 27, 1959) was an American writer, best known for his salacious 1958 novel The Bramble Bush (1958) and its 1960 film adaptation.

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Charlotte Armstrong

Charlotte Armstrong Lewi (May 2, 1905 – July 18, 1969) was an American writer.

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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (commonly; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.

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Cheyenne (TV series)

Cheyenne is an American Western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1962. NBC Matinee Theater and Cheyenne (TV series) are 1955 American television series debuts and black-and-white American television shows.

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Chuck Connors

Kevin Joseph Aloysius Connors (April 10, 1921 – November 10, 1992) was an American actor, writer, and professional basketball and baseball player.

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Cloris Leachman

Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 27, 2021) was an American actress and comedienne whose career spanned nearly eight decades.

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Dale Wasserman

Dale Wasserman (November 2, 1914 – December 21, 2008) was an American playwright, perhaps best known for his book, Man of La Mancha.

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Daphne du Maurier

Dame Daphne du Maurier, Lady Browning, (13 May 1907 – 19 April 1989) was an English novelist, biographer and playwright.

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Darren McGavin

Darren McGavin (born William Lyle Richardson; May 7, 1922 – February 25, 2006) was an American actor.

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David Chandler (writer)

David Chandler (June 2, 1912 – October 19, 1990) was an American screenwriter, novelist and playwright.

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David Janssen

David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer; March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (1963–1967).

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David Karp (novelist)

David Karp (May 5, 1922 – September 11, 1999) was an American novelist and television writer.

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Dean Harens

Dean Arthur Harens (June 30, 1920 – May 20, 1996) was an American actor.

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Dean Stockwell

Robert Dean Stockwell (March 5, 1936 – November 7, 2021) was an American actor with a career spanning seven decades.

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DeForest Kelley

Jackson DeForest Kelley (January 20, 1920 – June 11, 1999) was an American actor, screenwriter, poet, and singer.

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Dennis Hopper

Dennis Lee Hopper (May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010) was an American actor and film director.

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Dodie Smith

Dorothy Gladys "Dodie" Smith (3 May 1896 – 24 November 1990) was an English novelist and playwright.

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Donald Symington

Donald Leith Symington (August 30, 1925 – July 24, 2013) was an American stage, film and television actor.

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Doris Gilbert

Doris Wolfe Gilbert.

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Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early 20th century.

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Dorothy Kilgallen

Dorothy Mae Kilgallen (July 3, 1913 – November 8, 1965) was an American columnist, journalist, and television game show panelist.

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Dracula

Dracula is a gothic horror novel by Bram Stoker, published on 26 May 1897.

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E. Jack Neuman

Ernest Jack Neuman (February 27, 1921 – January 15, 1998) was an Edgar and Peabody award-winning American writer and producer.

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Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, author, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton (born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer.

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Edmund Gwenn

Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor.

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Edward Everett Hale

Edward Everett Hale (April 3, 1822 – June 10, 1909) was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in support of the Union during the Civil War.

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Edward Everett Horton

Edward Everett Horton Jr. (March 18, 1886 – September 29, 1970) was an American character actor.

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Eileen and Robert Mason Pollock

Eileen "Mike" Prince Pollock (March 22, 1926 – December 5, 2012) and Robert "Bob" Mason Pollock (March 19, 1917 – July 11, 2016) were an American married couple who worked as television screenwriters and producers best known for work on the series Dynasty and its spin-off series The Colbys, the latter of which the Pollocks co-created with Dynasty creators Richard and Esther Shapiro.

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Elaine Ryan

Elaine Ryan (October 3, 1905 – June 7, 1981) was an American screenwriter and playwright known for writing Hollywood films in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as television in the 1950s.

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Elizabeth Cadell

Violet Elizabeth Cadell, née Vandyke (10 November 1903 – 9 October 1989) was a 20th-century British writer.

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Elswyth Thane

Helen Ricker Beebe (May 16, 1900 – July 31, 1984) was an American romance novelist who published under the name Elswyth Thane.

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Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

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Emlyn Williams

George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987) was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.

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Emmet Lavery

Emmet Godfrey Lavery (November 8, 1902 – January 1, 1986) was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress.

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Eugénie Grandet

Eugénie Grandet is a novel first published in 1833 by French author Honoré de Balzac.

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Eva Gabor

Eva Gabor (February 11, 1919 – July 4, 1995) was a Hungarian-American actress and socialite.

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Eve Greene

Eve Greene (May 21, 1906 – July 15, 1997) was an American screenwriter active primarily during the 1930s through the 1950s.

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Fay Wray

Vina Fay Wray (September 15, 1907 – August 8, 2004) was a Canadian-American actress best known for starring as Ann Darrow in the 1933 film King Kong.

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Frances Farmer

Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913August 1, 1970) was an American actress.

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Frances Parkinson Keyes

Frances Parkinson Keyes (July 21, 1885 – July 3, 1970) was an American author who wrote about her life as the wife of a U.S. Senator and novels set in New England, Louisiana, and Europe.

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Frank and Doris Hursley

Frank and Doris Hursley, were an American husband-and-wife television screenwriting duo, comprising Frank M. Hursley (November 21, 1902 – February 3, 1989) and Doris Hursley (September 29, 1898 – May 5, 1984) they were best known for their serials, especially the medical drama General Hospital.

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Frank Craven

Frank Craven (August 24, 1875September 1, 1945) was an American stage and film actor, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for originating the role of the Stage Manager in Thornton Wilder's Our Town.

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Frank D. Gilroy

Frank Daniel Gilroy (October 13, 1925 – September 12, 2015) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film producer and director.

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Frank Price

Frank Price (born May 17, 1930) is an American retired television writer and film studio executive.

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Frankenstein

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley.

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Frederick J. Jackson

Frederick J. Jackson, also known professionally as Fred Jackson and Frederick Jackson and under the pseudonym Victor Thorne, (September 21, 1886 – May 22, 1953) was an American author, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and producer for both stage and film.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist.

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George Eliot

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.

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George Lowther (writer)

George F. Lowther (April 9, 1913 – April 28, 1975) was a writer, producer, director in the earliest days of radio and television.

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George Meredith

George Meredith (12 February 1828 – 18 May 1909) was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era.

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George Peppard

George Peppard (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor.

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Geraldine Page

Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924June 13, 1987) was an American actress.

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Gladys Schmitt

Gladys Leonore Schmitt (May 31, 1909 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – October 3, 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American writer, editor, and professor.

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Golden Age of Television

The first Golden Age of Television is an era of television in the United States marked by its large number of live productions.

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Golden Globe Awards

The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed for excellence in both American and international film and television. NBC Matinee Theater and Golden Globe Awards are NBC original programming.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer.

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Hagar Wilde

Hagar Wilde (July 7, 1905 – September 25, 1971) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and screenwriter from the 1930s through the 1950s.

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Harlan Ware

Harlan Ware (July 14, 1902 – May 7, 1967) was an American writer who wrote novels, screenplays, radio scripts, and short stories.

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Harriet Frank Jr.

Harriet Frank Jr. (born Harriet Goldstein; March 2, 1923 – January 28, 2020) was an American screenwriter and producer.

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Helene Hanff

Helene Hanff (April 15, 1916April 9, 1997) was an American writer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen (20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director.

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Henry James

Henry James (–) was an American-British author.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator.

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Herman Raucher

Herman Raucher (April 13, 1928 – December 28, 2023) was an American author and screenwriter who penned the autobiographical screenplay and novel Summer of '42, which became one of the highest-grossing films and one of the best selling novels of the 1970s.

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Hila Colman

Hila Colman (July 21, 1909 – May 15, 2008) was an American author whose career spanned four decades and included magazine articles, novels, and television.

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Home (1954 TV program)

Home was an American daytime television program hosted by Arlene Francis. NBC Matinee Theater and Home (1954 TV program) are American live television series and NBC original programming.

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Home at Seven (play)

Home at Seven is a 1950 British mystery play by R. C. Sherriff.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (more commonly,; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac: Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.

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Howard A. Rodman

Howard A. Rodman is a screenwriter, author and professor.

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Howard Berk

Howard Berk (c. 1925 - March 27, 2016) was an American novelist, screenwriter, and producer.

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Hugh O'Brian

Hugh O'Brian (born Hugh Charles Krampe; April 19, 1925 – September 5, 2016) was an American actor and humanitarian, best known for his starring roles in the ABC Western television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961) and the NBC action television series Search (1972–1973).

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Ira Levin

Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.

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Irving Phillips

Irving Walter Phillips (November 29, 1904 – October 28, 2000) was a noted American cartoonist, playwright, television scriptwriter, author, illustrator and educator.

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Irwin Shaw

Irwin Shaw (February 27, 1913 – May 16, 1984) was an American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies.

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Jack Laird

Jack Laird (born Jack Laird Schultheis; May 8, 1923 – December 3, 1991) was an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actor.

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Jack Nicholson

John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22, 1937) is an American retired actor and filmmaker.

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Jacques Bergerac

Jacques Bergerac (26 May 1927 – 15 June 2014) was a French actor and businessman.

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James Elward

James Elward (Chicago, November 22, 1928 – August 30, 1996) was an American author, actor, screenwriter, and playwright.

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James Thurber

James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist and playwright.

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James Whitmore

James Whitmore (October 1, 1921 – February 6, 2009) was an American actor.

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Jane Austen

Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

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Jane Darwell

Jane Darwell (born Patti Woodard; October 15, 1879 – August 13, 1967) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë.

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Jay Presson Allen

Jay Presson Allen (born Jacqueline Presson; March 3, 1922 – May 1, 2006) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and novelist.

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Jean Kerr

Jean Kerr (born Bridget Jean Collins, July 10, 1922 – January 20, 2003) was an American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, who authored the 1957 bestseller Please Don't Eat the Daisies and the plays King of Hearts in 1954 and Mary, Mary in 1961.

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Jim Backus

James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913 – July 3, 1989) was an American actor.

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Joanne Dru

Joanne Dru (born Joan Letitia LaCock;Known as Joan Lacock in the January 31, 1922 – September 10, 1996) was an American film and television actress, known for such films as Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, All the King's Men, and Wagon Master.

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John Cecil Holm

John Cecil Holm (November 4, 1904, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 24, 1981, in Westerly, Rhode Island) was an American dramatist, theatre director and actor.

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John Conte (actor)

John Conte (September 15, 1915 – September 4, 2006) was an American stage, film and TV actor, and television station owner.

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John Drew Barrymore

John Drew Barrymore (born John Blyth Barrymore Jr.; June 4, 1932 – November 29, 2004) was an American film actor and member of the Barrymore family of actors, which included his father, John Barrymore, and his father's siblings, Lionel and Ethel.

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John H. Secondari

John Hermes Secondari (November 1, 1919 – February 8, 1975) was an American author and television producer.

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John P. Marquand

John Phillips Marquand (November 10, 1893 – July 16, 1960) was an American writer.

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John Van Druten

John William Van Druten (1 June 190119 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director.

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John Vlahos

John Vlahos (December 26, 1917 – April 8, 2004) was, along with his contemporaries Horton Foote, Reginald Rose, and Rod Serling, one of the leading screenwriters of the 1950s and 1960s, writing for such series as The Philco Television Playhouse, ''Studio One'', Robert Montgomery Presents, Goodyear Television Playhouse, The United States Steel Hour, Climax!, Playhouse 90, The Alcoa Hour, Boris Karloff’s Thriller, Route 66, The Defenders, The Nurses, Doctor Kildare, and Marcus Welby, M.D..

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Josephine Lawrence

Josephine Lawrence (1889–1978) was an American storyteller, novelist and journalist.

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JP Miller

James Pinckney Miller (December 18, 1919 – November 1, 2001) was an American writer whose pen name was "JP Miller".

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June Havoc

June Havoc (born Ellen Evangeline Hovick;Ancestry Library Edition November 8, 1912 – March 28, 2010) was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, stage director and memoirist.

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Lamont Johnson

Ernest Lamont Johnson Jr. (September 30, 1922 – October 24, 2010) was an American actor and film director who has appeared in and directed many television shows and movies. He won two Emmy Awards.

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Laurie Carroll

Lawrence Patrick 'Dooley' Carroll (25 March 1926 – 10 August 2015) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Lawrence Hazard

Lawrence Hazard (May 12, 1897 – April 1, 1959) was an American playwright and screenwriter active between 1933 and 1958.

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Lawrence Langner

Lawrence Langner (May 30, 1890 – 1962) was a playwright, author, and producer who also pursued a career as a patent attorney.

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Leo G. Carroll

Leo Gratten Carroll (25 October 1886 – 16 October 1972) was an English actor.

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Leonard Freeman

Leonard Freeman (October 31, 1920 – January 20, 1974) was an American television writer and producer who is best remembered as the creator of the CBS series Hawaii Five-O in 1968.

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Little Women

Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869.

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Louis Hayward

Louis Charles Hayward (19 March 1909 – 21 February 1985) was a South African-born, British-American actor.

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Louis S. Peterson

Louis Stamford Peterson (June 17, 1922 – April 27, 1998) was an American playwright, actor, screenwriter, and professor.

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886).

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Luther Reed

Luther A. Reed (July 14, 1888 – November 16, 1961) was an American screenwriter and film director.

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Mala Powers

Mary Ellen "Mala" Powers (December 20, 1931 – June 11, 2007) was an American actress.

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Margaret Cousins (editor)

Sue Margaret Cousins (January 26, 1905 – July 30, 1996) was an American editor, journalist, and writer.

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Margaret Kennedy

Margaret Moore Kennedy (23 April 1896 – 31 July 1967) was an English novelist and playwright.

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Margaret O'Brien

Angela Maxine O'Brien (born January 15, 1937) is an American actress.

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Mari Sandoz

Mari Susette Sandoz (May 11, 1896 – March 10, 1966) was a Nebraska novelist, biographer, lecturer, and teacher.

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Marian Seldes

Marian Hall Seldes (August 23, 1928 – October 6, 2014) was an American actress.

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Marjorie Bowen

Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long (née Campbell; 1 November 1885 – 23 December 1952), who used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen, George R. Preedy, Joseph Shearing, Robert Paye, John Winch, and Margaret Campbell or Mrs.

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Marjorie Kellogg

Marjorie Kellogg (July 17, 1922 – December 19, 2005) was an American author.

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Marshall Thompson

James Marshall Thompson (November 27, 1925Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Social Security Applications and Claims, 1936-2007. – May 18, 1992) was an American film and television actor.

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Martin Milner

Martin Sam Milner (December 28, 1931 – September 6, 2015) was an American actor and radio host.

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Mary Astor

Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke, better known professionally as Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987), was an American actress.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who is best known for writing the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction.

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Mary Wickes

Mary Wickes (born Mary Isabella Wickenhauser; June 13, 1910 – October 22, 1995) was an American actress.

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Maureen O'Sullivan

Maureen Paula O'Sullivan (May 17, 1911 – June 23, 1998) was an Irish actress who played Jane in the ''Tarzan'' series of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller.

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Max Wilk

Max Wilk (July 3, 1920 – February 19, 2011) was an American playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction books.

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Mazo de la Roche

Mazo de la Roche (born Maisie Louise Roche; January 15, 1879 – July 12, 1961) was a Canadian writer who was the author of the Jalna novels, one of the most popular series of books of her time.

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Meade Roberts

Meade Roberts (13 June 1930 in New York City – 10 February 1992 in New York City) was an American screenwriter who collaborated with Tennessee Williams on the screenplays for the films The Fugitive Kind (1960) and Summer and Smoke (1961), both based on plays by Williams.

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Michael Dyne

Michael Bradley Dyne (August 19, 1918 – May 17, 1989) was a British-American television and film screenwriter.

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Michael Landon

Michael Landon (born Eugene Maurice Orowitz; October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor and filmmaker.

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Mona Kent

Mona Kent (1909–1990) was an American writer of radio and television scripts.

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Mordaunt Shairp

Alexander Mordaunt Shairp (13 March 1887 – 18 January 1939) was an English dramatist and screenwriter born in Totnes.

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Nancy Hale

Nancy Hale (May 6, 1908 – September 24, 1988) was an American novelist and short-story writer.

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Nathaniel Benchley

Nathaniel Goddard Benchley (November 13, 1915 – December 14, 1981) was an American author from Massachusetts.

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Nedra Tyre

Nedra Tyre (October 6, 1912 – 1990) was an American social worker and author, specializing in crime fiction.

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Night Must Fall

Night Must Fall is a play, a psychological thriller, by Emlyn Williams, first performed in 1935.

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Nina Foch

Nina Foch (born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock; April 20, 1924 – December 5, 2008) was an American actress who later became an instructor.

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One (David Karp novel)

One is a dystopian novel by David Karp first published in 1953.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Pat Sheehan (model)

Patricia Ann Sheehan (September 7, 1931 – January 14, 2006), also known as Patricia Sheehan Crosby, was an American actress and model.

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Patricia Barry

Patricia Barry (born Patricia Allen White, November 16, 1922 – October 11, 2016) was an American stage, film, and television actress.

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Paul Vincent Carroll

Paul Vincent Carroll (10 July 1900 – 20 October 1968) was an Irish dramatist and writer of movie scenarios and television scripts.

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Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and novelist.

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Phyllis Thaxter

Phyllis St.

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Playhouse 90

Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. NBC Matinee Theater and Playhouse 90 are 1950s American anthology television series, American live television series and black-and-white American television shows.

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Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is the second novel by English author Jane Austen, published in 1813.

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R. C. Sherriff

Robert Cedric Sherriff, FSA, FRSL (6 June 1896 – 13 November 1975) was an English writer best known for his play Journey's End, which was based on his experiences as an army officer in the First World War.

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Rachel Crothers

Rachel Crothers (December 12, 1870 – July 5, 1958) was an American playwright and theater director known for her well-crafted plays that often dealt with feminist themes.

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Richard Boone

Richard Allen Boone (June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981) was an American actor who starred in over 50 films and was notable for his roles in Westerns, including his starring role in the television series Have Gun – Will Travel.

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Richard Crenna

Richard Donald Crenna (November 30, 1926 – January 17, 2003) was an American actor.

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Richard Kollmar

Richard Tompkins Kollmar (December 31, 1910 – January 7, 1971), also known professionally as Dick Kollmar, was an American stage, radio, film and television actor, television personality and Broadway producer.

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Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno (born Rosa Dolores Alverío Marcano; December 11, 1931) is an American actress, dancer, and singer.

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Robert Arthur (film producer)

Robert Arthur (November 1, 1909 – October 28, 1986) was an American screenwriter and producer best known for his long association with Universal Studios.

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Robert E. Thompson (screenwriter)

Robert E. Thompson (November 3, 1924 – February 11, 2004) was an American screenwriter.

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Robert Ellis Miller

Robert Ellis Miller (July 18, 1927 – January 27, 2017) was an American film director.

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Robert J. Shaw

Robert J. Shaw (1917–1996) was an American television writer with 39 credits and teacher of screenwriting at UCLA.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.

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Rod Serling

Rodman Edward Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his anthology television series The Twilight Zone.

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Roddy McDowall

Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 3 October 1998) was a British and American actor, whose career spanned over 270 screen and stage roles across over 60 years.

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Roger Garis

Roger Carroll Garis (–) was an American writer.

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Roman Fever

"Roman Fever" is a short story by American writer Edith Wharton.

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Rudy Vallée

Hubert Prior Vallée (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986), known professionally as Rudy Vallée, was an American singer, saxophonist, bandleader, actor, and entertainer.

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Samson Raphaelson

Samson Raphaelson (March 30, 1894 – July 16, 1983) was an American playwright, screenwriter and fiction writer.

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Samuel W. Taylor

Samuel Woolley Taylor (February 5, 1907 – September 26, 1997) was an American novelist, scriptwriter, and historian.

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Savrola

Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania is the only major fictional work of Winston S. Churchill.

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Shelley Fabares

Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (born January 19, 1944) is a retired American actress and singer.

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Shirley Knight

Shirley Knight Hopkins (July 5, 1936 – April 22, 2020) was an American actress who appeared in more than 50 feature films, television films, television series, and Broadway and Off-Broadway productions in her career, playing leading and character roles.

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Silvia Richards

Silvia Richards (born Silvia Hope Goodenough) was an American screenwriter who worked on a number of films in the 1940s and 1950s, including the film noir Ruby Gentry and the Western Rancho Notorious.

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Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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Sol Saks

Sol Saks (December 13, 1910 – April 16, 2011) was an American screenwriter best known as the creator of the television sitcom Bewitched.

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Sophie Kerr

Sophie Kerr (August 23, 1880 – February 6, 1965) was a prolific writer of the early 20th century whose stories about smart, ambitious women mirrored her own evolution from small-town girl to successful career woman.

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Speed Lamkin

Hillyer Speed Lamkin (born Monroe, Louisiana, November 2, 1927 – Monroe, Louisiana, May 3, 2011) was an American novelist and playwright.

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Stafford Dickens

Charles Stafford Dickens (1888–1967) was a British actor, screenwriter and film director.

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Steve Allen

Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26, 1921 – October 30, 2000) was an American television and radio personality, comedian, musician, composer, writer, and actor.

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Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson.

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Sumner Locke Elliott

Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright.

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Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress.

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Susan Oliver

Susan Oliver (born Charlotte Gercke, February 13, 1932 – May 10, 1990) was an American actress, television director, aviator, and author.

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Suzanne Pleshette

Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008) was an American actress.

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Tad Danielewski

Tad Danielewski (March 29, 1921 – January 6, 1993) was a Polish-born American film director.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.

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The American (novel)

The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876–77 and then as a book in 1877.

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The Aspern Papers

The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year.

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The Bishop Misbehaves (play)

The Bishop Misbehaves is a comedy crime play written by Frederick J. Jackson.

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The Bottle Imp

"The Bottle Imp" is an 1891 short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson usually found in the short story collection Island Nights' Entertainments.

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The Cask of Amontillado

"The Cask of Amontillado" is a short story by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book.

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The Catbird Seat

"The Catbird Seat" is a 1942 short story by James Thurber.

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The Damask Cheek

The Damask Cheek is a 1942 comedy play by the British writer John Van Druten in collaboration with Lloyd Morris.

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The Egoist (novel)

The Egoist is a tragicomical novel by George Meredith published in 1879.

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The Fall of the House of Usher

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840.

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The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth is a 1905 novel by American author Edith Wharton.

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The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables: A Romance is a Gothic novel written beginning in mid-1850 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne and published in April 1851 by Ticknor and Fields of Boston.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest, a Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde.

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The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man is an 1897 science fiction novel by British writer H. G. Wells.

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The Man in Half Moon Street (play)

The Man in Half Moon Street is a 1939 play by the British writer Barré Lyndon.

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The Man Without a Country

"The Man Without a Country" is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published in The Atlantic in December 1863.

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The Master Builder

The Master Builder (Bygmester Solness) is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

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The Mickey Mouse Club

The Mickey Mouse Club is an American variety television show that aired intermittently from 1955 to 1996 and returned to social media in 2017. NBC Matinee Theater and the Mickey Mouse Club are 1955 American television series debuts and black-and-white American television shows.

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The Queen of Spades (story)

The Queen of Spades (Pikovaya dama) is a short story with supernatural elements by Alexander Pushkin, about human avarice.

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The Reverberator

The Reverberator is a short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Macmillan's Magazine in 1888, and then as a book later the same year.

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The Tell-Tale Heart

"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1843.

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There's Always Juliet

There's Always Juliet is a 1931 comedy play by the British writer John Van Druten about an American architect who falls in love with an Englishwoman.

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Therese Lewis

Therese Lewis (1911-1984) was an American screenwriter, author, and producer who worked in radio, film, and television in the 1940s up through the 1960s.

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This Is Your Life (American franchise)

This Is Your Life is an American reality documentary series broadcast on NBC radio from 1948 to 1952, and on NBC television from 1952 to 1961. NBC Matinee Theater and This Is Your Life (American franchise) are American live television series, black-and-white American television shows and NBC original programming.

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Thyra Samter Winslow

Thyra Samter Winslow (March 15, 1886 – December 2, 1961) was an American short story writer, novelist, and film story writer, who published over 200 stories during her career, frequently for magazines such as The Smart Set, The American Mercury, and The New Yorker.

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Universal Television

Universal Television LLC (abbreviated as UTV) is an American television production company that is a subsidiary of Universal Studio Group, a division of NBCUniversal, which, in turn, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast.

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Vance Bourjaily

Vance Nye Bourjaily (September 17, 1922 – August 31, 2010) was an American novelist, playwright, journalist, creative writing teacher, and essayist.

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Viña Delmar

Viña Delmar (born Alvina Louise Croter; January 29, 1903 – January 19, 1990) was an American short story writer, novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who worked from the 1920s to the 1970s.

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Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor known for his work in the horror film genre, mostly portraying villains.

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Virginia Faulkner

Virginia Louise Faulkner (1 March 1913 – 15 September 1980) was an American writer and editor.

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Vivi Janiss

Vivi Janiss (born Vivian Audrey Jamison; May 29, 1911 – September 7, 1988) was an American actress, known for such films as The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955), Man on the Prowl (1957), and First, You Cry (1978).

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Walter Grauman

Walter E. Grauman (March 17, 1922 – March 20, 2015) was an American director of stage shows, films and television shows.

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Ward Hawkins

Ward Hawkins (29 December 1912 – 22 December 1990) was an American author, who wrote from the 1940s through the 1980s.

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Wendy Hiller

Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller, (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years.

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William Edward Brandon (September 21, 1914 – April 11, 2002) was an American writer and historian best known for his work about Native Americans and the American West.

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William Kozlenko

William Kozlenko was a playwright, screenwriter, and editor of multiple stage-play compilations and anthologies, as well as being a founding editor of One-Act Play Magazine, which published from 1937–1942, (serials catalog entry), Hathi Trust digital catalog.

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References

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