Academy Award Theater (US Anthology) 

Last Edited: 20-Feb-2017
A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.

39 episodes broadcast on CBS form 30-Mar-1946 to 18-Dec-1946. Produced and directed by Dee Engelbach, with music composed and conducted by Leith Stevens. Frank Wilson wrote the movie adaptations.

Date Title Cast Parameters
CBS
30-Mar-1946
Jezebel
Bette Davis,
28:53, 6771, s
CBS
06-Apr-1946
Kitty Foyle
Ginger Rogers
29:32, 27623, s
CBS
13-Apr-1946
The Story of Louis Pasteur
Paul Muni
29:08, 6828, M
CBS
20-Apr-1946
The Great McGinty
Brian Donleavy
29:14, 6856, M
CBS
27-Apr-1946
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

30:29, 28508, s
CBS
04-May-1946
Stagecoach
Claire Bremmer, Randolph Scott
28:22, 6654, M
CBS
11-May-1946
If I Were King
Ronald Colman
28:18, 6638, M
CBS
18-May-1946
My Sister Eileen
Rosalind Russell, Janet Blair
28:47, 26929, s
CBS
25-May-1946
The Informer
Victor McLaglen, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford,
J.M. Carrigan
29:17, 6868, M
CBS
01-Jun-1946
Arise My Love
Ray Milland
29:46, 6986, M
CBS
08-Jun-1946
Ruggles of Red Gap
Charles Laughton, Charlie Ruggles
31:58, 29910, s
CBS
15-Jun-1946
Pride of the Marines
John Garfield, Rosemary deCamp
28:15, 6630, M
CBS
22-Jun-1946
The Front Page
Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien
30:00, 7038, M
CBS
29-Jun-1946
A Star Is Born
Fredric March
29:20, 6876, M
CBS
03-Jul-1946
The Maltese Falcon
Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet, Mary Astor 33:12, 31062, s
CBS
10-Jul-1946
Young Mr. Lincoln
Henry Fonda, Ward Bond
29:59, 28107, s
CBS
17-Jul-1946
The Prisoner of Zenda
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Virginia Brooks
29:56, 28000, s
CBS
24-Jul-1946
Foreign Correspondent
Joseph Cotten
29:15, 27364, s
CBS
31-Jul-1946
Hold Back the Dawn
Olivia de Havilland,
30:04, 28199, M
CBS
07-Aug-1946
Watch on the Rhine
Paul Lukas
28:51, 6773, M
CBS
14-Aug-1946
Vivacious Lady
Lana Turner
30:03, 7015, M
CBS
21-Aug-1946
The Keys of the Kingdom
Gregory Peck
26:53, 6307, M
CBS
28-Aug-1946
One Sunday Afternoon
Jimmy Stewart
29:07, 6833, M
CBS
04-Sep-1946
Pinocchio

27:46, 6507, M
CBS
11-Sep-1946
Shadow of a Doubt
Joseph Cotten, June Vincent
29:00, 27123, s
CBS
18-Sep-1946
The White Cliffs of Dover
Irene Dunne, C. Aubrey Smith
29:27, 27548, s
CBS
25-Sep-1946
Guest in the House
Kirk Douglas, Anita Louise, Joan Loring
29:52, 27932, s
CBS
02-Oct-1946
My Man Godfrey
William Powell
29:06, 27227, s
CBS
09-Oct-1946
It Happened Tomorrow
Eddie Bracken, Ann Blythe
29:51, 27927, s
CBS
16-Oct-1946
Blood on the Sun
John Garfield
29:19, 27417, s
CBS
23-Oct-1946
The Devil and Miss Jones
Charles Coburn, Virginia Mayall
29:23, 6903, M
CBS
30-Oct-1946
Suspicion
Cary Grant, Ann Todd
28:26, 26601, s
CBS
06-Nov-1946
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Olivia de Havilland 28:47, 6747, M
CBS
13-Nov-1946
Night Train
Rex Harrison
28:44, 26941, s
CBS
20-Nov-1946
Brief Encounter
Greer Garson
27:46, 26034, s
CBS
27-Nov-1946
Lost Horizon
Ronald Colman
26:44, 25079, s
CBS
04-Dec-1946
Portrait of Jennie
Joan Fontaine, John Lund
27:28, 6441, s
bandwidth issues
CBS
11-Dec-1946
The Enchanted Cottage
Peter Lawford, Joan Lorring
29:53, 7009, M
CBS
18-Dec-1946
Lost Angel
Margaret O'Brien
30:13, 7090, M

Documentaries and Collateral Material
Date Title Cast Parameters