Showcase Productions, Inc. was the original packager/producer of much of the prime time, live, dramatic, color, 60 minute and 90 minute programming which appeared primarily on NBC during the period between September 1954 and September 1957.

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"State of The Union"

Directed By: Arthur Penn
Written By: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse
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Air Date: 11/15/54
Stars: Joseph Cotten, Margaret Sullavan, Nina Foch, Ray Walston.
Show: Directed by Arthur Penn, teleplay based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize Broadway show by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse adapted by them for television; comedy with serious theme about national politics, in which a extremely successful and fundamentally honest businessman is lured into presidential ambitions, and is forced to make compromise after compromise until he withdraws from the race, determined to reform the system; stars Joseph Cotten, Margaret Sullavan, Nina Foch, Ray Walston.

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