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 WOMEN"

Directed By: Vincent J. Donehue
Written By: play by Claire Boothe Luce, adapted for TV by Sumner Locke Elliott
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Air Date: 2/7/55
Stars: Ruth Hussey, Shelley Winters, Mary Astor, Paulette Goddard, Cathleen Nesbitt, Bibi Osterwald, Valerie Bettis, Nancy Olson, Mary Boland
Show: play by Claire Boothe Luce, adapted for TV by Sumner Locke Elliott, directed by Vincent J. Donehue, assistant director Dominick Dunne, music direction and composition by Harry Sosnik; a sociological satire on the female of the species, set against a glamorous Park Avenue background that eventually extends to Reno and back, in which a happily married society leader is prodded by the gossip of her "best friends" to divorce her husband; with Ruth Hussey, Shelley Winters, Mary Astor, Paulette Goddard, Cathleen Nesbitt, Bibi Osterwald, Valerie Bettis, Nancy Olson, Mary Boland

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