Discover
Original Release
11/09/1952
US Release
11/09/1952
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host / Narrator (segment "Requiem") |
| Martin Gabel | Narrator / Narrator (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") |
| Joanne Woodward | Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") |
| Royal Dano | Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") |
| Crahan Denton | Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") |
| Helen Hayes | Self - Storyteller (segment "Mother Goose") / Mrs. Kirby (segment "The Happy Journey") / Bessie Arlington (segment "A Christmas Tie") / (segment "The Twelve Pound Look") |
| Joseph Schildkraut | The Devil (segment "The Last Night of Don Juan") / Death (segment "Everyman") / Charles Dickens (segment "A Tale of Two Cities") |
| Harry Mehaffey | (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") |
| Brenda Lewis | Musetta (segment) / Rosalinde Eisenstein (segment "Die Fledermaus") |
| Agnes de Mille | Self (segment "Agnes DeMille's 'Rodeo' ") / (segment "Three Maidens and the Devil") |
| # | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Trial of Anne Boleyn | Sunday, 09 November 1952 |
| 2 | Mr. Lincoln: Part 1 | Sunday, 16 November 1952 |
| 3 | The Twelve Pound Look | Sunday, 23 November 1952 |
| 4 | Mr. Lincoln: Part 2 | Sunday, 30 November 1952 |
| 5 | The Trial of Ben Jonson | Sunday, 07 December 1952 |
| 6 | Mr. Lincoln: Part 3 | Sunday, 14 December 1952 |
| 7 | The Trial of Mr. Pickwick | Sunday, 21 December 1952 |
| 8 | My Brother Henry | Sunday, 28 December 1952 |
| 9 | The Man in the Cool Cool Moon | Sunday, 04 January 1953 |
| 10 | Mr. Lincoln: Part 4 | Sunday, 11 January 1953 |
| 11 | Vive! | Sunday, 18 January 1953 |
| 12 | While the Tide Was Rising | Sunday, 25 January 1953 |
| 13 | Die Fledermaus | Sunday, 01 February 1953 |
| 14 | Mr. Lincoln: Part 5 | Sunday, 08 February 1953 |
| 15 | The Oyster and the Pearl | Sunday, 15 February 1953 |
| 16 | La Boheme | Sunday, 22 February 1953 |
| 17 | The Happy Journey | Sunday, 01 March 1953 |
| 18 | A Lodging for the Night | Sunday, 08 March 1953 |
| 19 | The Last Night of Don Juan | Sunday, 15 March 1953 |
| 20 | Three Maidens and the Devil | Sunday, 22 March 1953 |
| 21 | Lord Byron's Love Letter | Sunday, 29 March 1953 |
| 22 | Grandma Moses | Sunday, 05 April 1953 |
| 23 | Toy Symphony with Stokowski | Sunday, 12 April 1953 |
| 24 | The Abracadabra Kid | Sunday, 19 April 1953 |
| 25 | A Tale of Two Cities | Sunday, 26 April 1953 |
| 26 | Arms and the Man | Sunday, 03 May 1953 |
| 27 | This Little Kitty Stayed Cool | Sunday, 17 May 1953 |
Directors
Andrew McCullough, Norman Lloyd, Bob Banner, Byron Paul, Jean Benoît-Lévy, Seymour Robbie, John Burrell, Richard Eckler, Ernest Reid, Judd Whiting, Alex Segal
Writers
William Saroyan, James Agee, Robert Tallman, Arthur Sullivan, Maxwell Anderson, Charles Dickens, W.S. Gilbert, John Gutman, J.M. Barrie, Kay Swift, James Thurber, Irve Tunick, Tad Mosel, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edmond Rostand, George Oppenheimer, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gian Carlo Menotti, Thornton Wilder, Frank Sullivan, Glenway Wescott, Garson Kanin, Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Charles Perrault, Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare, Alistair Cooke, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Benchley, Buddy G. DeSylva
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Alistair Cooke | Self - Host / Narrator (segment "Requiem") |
| Martin Gabel | Narrator / Narrator (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Narrator (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") |
| Joanne Woodward | Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Ann Rutledge (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") |
| Royal Dano | Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Abraham Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") |
| Crahan Denton | Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln, Part II: Early Boyhood") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part III: Growing Up") / Tom Lincoln (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") |
| Helen Hayes | Self - Storyteller (segment "Mother Goose") / Mrs. Kirby (segment "The Happy Journey") / Bessie Arlington (segment "A Christmas Tie") / (segment "The Twelve Pound Look") |
| Joseph Schildkraut | The Devil (segment "The Last Night of Don Juan") / Death (segment "Everyman") / Charles Dickens (segment "A Tale of Two Cities") |
| Harry Mehaffey | (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") / (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") |
| Brenda Lewis | Musetta (segment) / Rosalinde Eisenstein (segment "Die Fledermaus") |
| Agnes de Mille | Self (segment "Agnes DeMille's 'Rodeo' ") / (segment "Three Maidens and the Devil") |
| James Agee | Self - Writer (segment "Lincoln-Rutledge Debate") / (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") |
| Martyn Green | Judge (segment "Trial by Jury") / Ko-Ko (segment "The Mikado") |
| Jack Warden | (segment "Lincoln Part V: Ann Rutledge") / (segment "Lincoln Part IV: New Salem") |
| Michael Redgrave | Captain Dimitri Smimov (segment "The Bear") / (segment "My Brother Henry") |
| Burgess Meredith | Everyman (segment "Everyman") / Avon Horsley Jr. (segment "A Christmas Tie") |
| June Havoc | Madame Papova (segment "The Bear") / (segment "Happy Birthday, Aunt Sarah") |
| Leopold Stokowski | Self - Conductor (segment 4) / Self - Conductor (segment "Toy Symphony with Stokowski") |
| Russell Collins | Mr. Kirby (segment "The Happy Journey") / (segment "The Bad Men") |
| Richard Purdy | (segment "Lincoln Part I: The End and the Beginning") |
| Joey Fallon | (segment "The Man in the Cool, Cool Moon") |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| Robert Saudek | Executive Producer |
| William Spier | Producer |
| Richard De Rochemont | Producer |
| Alan Anderson | Producer |
| Arne Sucksdorff | Producer |
| Björn Soldan | Producer |
| Heikki Aho | Producer |
| Herman Starr | Producer |
| Leonid Kipnis | Producer |
| Ralph Nelson | Producer |
