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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 film adaptation of the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. It was directed by Elia Kazan, who had also directed the original stage production, and stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl...
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Medic
Medic is an American medical drama that aired on NBC beginning in 1954. Medic was television's first doctor drama to focus attention on medical procedures, establishing the style for later medical series.
Created by its principal writer James E....
Macbeth
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Our Town
Our Town is a 1955 episode of the American series Producers' Showcase directed by Delbert Mann and starring Frank Sinatra, Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint. The episode is an adaption of Thornton Wilder's 1938 play Our Town.
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Studio One
Studio One is a long-running American dramatic radio-television anthology series, created in 1947 by the 26-year-old Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC.
On April 29, 1947, Markle launched the 60-minute CBS radio series...
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Eloise
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Cinderella
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is a musical written for television, with music by Richard Rodgers and a book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based upon the fairy tale Cinderella, particularly Cendrillon, ou la Petite Pantoufle de...
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Old Man
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Little Moon of Alban
Little Moon of Alban was a Broadway play written by James Costigan that NBC brought to television in 1958. The story, set in Ireland in 1919, relates the experiences of a desperate young woman who enters a convent and becomes a nurse to wounded...
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The Untouchables
The Untouchables is a television series that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition...
Macbeth
Macbeth is a live television adaptation of the William Shakespeare play. This Hallmark Hall of Fame production was directed by George Schaefer, and starred Maurice Evans and Judith Anderson. Although it was telecast in color, it has been preserved...
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24 Hours in the Life of a Woman
24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (French: Vingt-Quatre Heures de la vie d'une femme) is a 1968 French drama film directed by Dominique Delouche. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the...
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The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker is a cycle of 20th century dramatic works derived from Helen Keller's autobiography The Story of My Life. Each of the various dramas describe the relationship between Keller — a deafblind and initially almost feral child — and...
Route 66
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America. The show ran weekly on CBS from 1960 to 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill...
The Dick Powell Show
The Dick Powell Show is a television anthology series that ran on NBC from 1961- 1963, primarily sponsored by the Reynolds Metals Company. It was hosted by longtime film star Dick Powell until his death from lymphatic cancer in January 1963, then by...
Bus Stop
Bus Stop is a 26-episode drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell (1921-1972) as Grace Sherwood, the owner of a bus station and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise in the Colorado Rockies. The...
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East Side/West Side
East Side/West Side is an hour-long American drama series starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, and later on, Linden Chiles. The series aired for only one season (1963 – 1964) and was shown Monday nights on CBS.
The series...
The Richard Boone Show
The Richard Boone Show is a short-lived, award-winning anthology television series. It aired on NBC during the 1963-64 season.
Richard Boone hosted the series and starred in about half of the episodes, garnering an Emmy nomination for himself and a...
Dr. Kildare
Dr. Kildare is an NBC medical drama television series which ran from September 27, 1961 until April 5, 1966, encompassing a total of 190 episodes. The show, which premiered at the same time as an ABC medical drama, Ben Casey, quickly achieved...
The Nurses
The Nurses is a serialized primetime medical drama which aired on CBS from September 27, 1962 to May 11, 1965. It was originally called The Nurses when it premiered in 1962; for the second season, the title was expanded to The Doctors and the Nurses...
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is a 1951 film adapted from the play of the same name by Arthur Miller. It was directed by László Benedek and written for the screen by Stanley Roberts. It received numerous awards, including four Golden Globe Awards and the...
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A Christmas Memory
Truman Capote's famous story, A Christmas Memory, aired in 1966 as part of the ABC series, ABC Stage 67. It starred Geraldine Page and was produced by the Frank Perry.
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I Spy
I Spy is an American television secret agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1968 and teamed Robert Culp as international tennis player Kelly Robinson with Bill Cosby as his trainer, Alexander Scott. In reality, they...
Judd, for the Defense
Judd, for the Defense is a 53-episode American legal drama originally broadcast on the ABC network on Friday nights from September 8, 1967, to September 19, 1969.
The show starred Carl Betz, who had previously spent eight years in the role of Dr....
David Copperfield
David Copperfield is a 1969 American television film based on the novel by Charles Dickens made in the UK for 20th Century Fox Television.
The movie starred Robin Phillips in the title role and Ralph Richardson as Micawber. Among other well-known...
My Sweet Charlie
My Sweet Charlie is an American television movie directed by Lamont Johnson. The teleplay by Richard Levinson and William Link is based on the novel of the same name by David Westheimer. Produced by Universal Television and broadcast by NBC on...
