The Philco Television Playhouse was a live anthology television series during the Golden Age of Television from 1948 to 1955. The Golden Age of Television is a reference to the period from approximately 1949 to 1960 when prime time television drama was predominated by original and classic productions from such writers as Paddy Chayefsky, Reginald Rose and Rod Serling. ...

The shows broadcast on NBC on Sundays ran from 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. NBC, (Formerly an acronym for the National Broadcasting Company until 2004), is an American television and radio network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

The shows were produced by Fred Coe and produced famed Broadway plays starting with Dinner at Eight by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber Fred Coe (December 13, 1914 - April 29, 1979) was a television producer and director most famous for the The Philco Television Playhouse in 1948-1955 and Playhouse 90 from 1957 to 1959. ... Dinner at Eight is a 1932 Broadway play written George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. ... George Simon Kaufman (November 16, 1889 - June 2, 1961) was a playwright, director, producer, humorist, and drama critic noted for his many collaborations with other writers and his contributions to 20th century American comedy. ... Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 - April 16, 1968), Jewish-American novelist, author, and playwright. ...

Besides the plays it launched the television writing careers of Paddy Chayefsky, Horton Foote, Tad Mosel, Alan Arthur, Arnold Schulman, and Gore Vidal. Sidney Aaron Chayefsky (January 29, 1923 – August 1, 1981) known as Paddy Chayefsky was an acclaimed dramatist who transitioned from the golden age of American live television in the 1950s to have a successful career as a playwright and screenwriter for Hollywood. ... Horton Foote (born 1916), is an American author and playwright, most noted for his 1983 Oscar-winning screenplay Tender Mercies. ... Arnold Schulman (born August 11, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - ) is an American screenwriter and producer. ... Gore Vidal, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born October 3, 1925), known simply as Gore Vidal, is a prolific and versatile American writer of novels, stage plays, screenplays, and essays and has been a public and often controversial figure on both the American literary and...

Its most famous show was Chayefsky's Marty which starred Rod Steiger and was later made into a move that won an Academy Award for Ernest Borgnine. For other uses, see Marty (disambiguation). ... Rod Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor. ... Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... Ernest Borgnine shows off his new Chief Petty Officer cover at the Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C on October 15, 2004 Ernest Borgnine (born January 24, 1917) is an American actor. ...

Among the performers on ths show were Joanne Woodward, Steve McQueen, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint, Grace Kelly, Kim Stanley, Jack Klugman, and Walter Matthau. Joanne Woodward Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (born February 27, 1930) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. ... Steve McQueen in The Great Escape Steve McQueen (March 24, 1930 – November 7, 1980) was a American movie actor. ... Rod Steiger (April 14, 1925 – July 9, 2002) was an American actor. ... Marie Saint in North by Northwest. ... Princess Grace of Monaco, (born Grace Patricia Kelly) (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an Academy Award-winning American film actress who, as a result of marriage to Prince Rainier III of Monaco on April 19, 1956, became Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco. ... Kim Stanley photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1961 Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress. ... Jack Klugman (born April 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a Jewish-American television and movie actor. ... Walter Matthau Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award winning American comedy actor. ...

External links

• Museum of Broadcast Communications profile
• IMDB Profile