Word: lux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lux Radio Theater (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). Wuthering Heights, with Merle Oberon, Cameron Mitchell...
...Lux Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). J. M. Kerrigan in Welcome, Stranger...
...headset-wearing assistants as the actors, electricians and cameramen annoyingly muffed their cues. The play was To Each His Own, adapted from the 1946 movie that won an Oscar for Olivia de Havilland. Now, cut from two hours to 46 minutes, it starred Dorothy McGuire on NBC's Lux Video Theater-the first of a series of adaptations of top movies with top movie stars...
Surrounding Treacle. Once it was on the air, the opening Lux show moved far more smoothly than the dress rehearsal, but it was nonetheless disappointing-a clear warning of some of the tremendous problems ahead in a season loaded with adapted drama. Adapter Sanford Barnett, prohibited by space and time limitations from imitating the far-ranging freedom of movie cameras, had to cut the film script down to a sentimental skeleton. The original film had been aimed at the handkerchief trade; on TV the tear jerking scenes came as fast as in any soap opera. To compensate for his lack...
...Lux Video Theater (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Dorothy McGuire in To Each...