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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"THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET"

Directed By: Vincent J. Donehue
Written By: Rudolf Besier adapted by Guthrie McClintic
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Air Date: 4/2/56
Stars: Katharine Cornell, Margalo Gilmore, Brenda Forbes.
Show: teleplay of 1931 Broadway play by Rudolf Besier (which starred Katharine Cornell, and was staged by her husband Guthrie McClintic), staged and adapted by Guthrie McClintic, and again starring "The First Lady of the American Theatre" in her television debut, Katharine Cornell, directed by Vincent J. Donehue; story of the relationship of famed Victorian poet Elizabeth Moulton-Barrett, first, with her possessive father, and then to the vital and vigorous Victorian poet Robert Browning, beginning with their first meeting at the Barrett home on 50 Wimpole Street on May 20, 1845; at the time, Elizabeth was a 40-year old bedridden invalid, dominated by her widowed father; when her doctor recommends a trip to Italy for her health, Browning declares his love for her, foiling her father's plan to spoil the trip by arranging one of his own by secretly marrying her and taking her to Italy after all; stars Katherine Cornell, Anthony Quayle, Henry Daniell, Nancy Coleman, Margalo Gilmore, Brenda Forbes.

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