DuPont Show of the Month

Did You Know?

• On December 20, 1957, the program presented a musical adaptation of Jerome Chodorov and Joseph Fields' theatrical version of Junior Miss.
• In February 1960, the program presented 'Ethan Frome' with Sterling Hayden, Julie Harris, and Clarice Blackburn.

Directors and writers

The series was directed by Sidney Lumet, Ralph Nelson, Alex Segal, and Robert Mulligan. It was the first anthology show to adapt Thornton Wilder’s novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey for television. Original dramas like The Lincoln Murder Case also aired. Writer Dale Wasserman contributed I, Don Quixote, which later became Man of La Mancha. Sidney Kingsley and Terence Rattigan were among the other writers.

Awards and actors

The show received 12 Emmy Award nominations. Performers included Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison, Carol Channing, John Gielgud, Gracie Fields, Richard Burton, Lee J. Cobb, Colleen Dewhurst, Eli Wallach, Hurd Hatfield, Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Maureen O'Hara, Michael Rennie, Suzanne Storrs, Farley Granger, Fritz Weaver, and George C. Scott. Johnny Washbrook appeared as Tom Canty in The Prince and the Pauper. The series telecast the 1958 Old Vic production of Hamlet. Sally Benson's Junior Miss aired on December 20, 1957, with Carol Lynley in the lead.