Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress. A child actress and model, she was a repertory cast member of CBS Radio's The March of Time and appeared in several films in the late 1920s. She became a leading lady upon returning to the screen in the late 1930s, while still in her teens, and made two dozen movies between 1938 and 1946, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James (1939), and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year. After turning to the stage in the late 1940s, she had her greatest success in a character role, the distraught mother in The Bad Seed, receiving a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for the 1955 stage production and an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress for the 1956 film adaptation, her last film role. Kelly then worked regularly in television until 1963, then took over the role of Martha in the original Broadway production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for several months. She returned to television for a handful of appearances in the mid-1970s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nancy Kelly, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Nancy Kelly
  • Popularity: 0.671
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1921-03-25
  • Place of Birth: Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
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Nancy Kelly Movies

  • 1942
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    Fly By Night

    Fly By Night

    6.4 1942 HD

    Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.

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  • 1940
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    One Night in the Tropics

    One Night in the Tropics

    5.6 1940 HD

    Jim "Lucky" Moore, an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve: a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if Steve does not marry his fiancée, Cynthia. The upcoming marriage is jeopardized by Steve's ex-girlfriend, Mickey, and Cynthia's disapproving Aunt Kitty. The policy is underwritten by a nightclub owner, Roscoe, who sends two enforcers - Abbott and Costello - to ensure that the wedding occurs as planned.

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  • 1956
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    The Bad Seed

    The Bad Seed

    7.12 1956 HD

    Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.

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  • 1939
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    Jesse James

    Jesse James

    6.47 1939 HD

    After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

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  • 1945
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    Betrayal from the East

    Betrayal from the East

    5.8 1945 HD

    A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

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  • 1939
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    Tail Spin

    Tail Spin

    5.8 1939 HD

    Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

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  • 1926
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    The Untamed Lady

    The Untamed Lady

    1 1926 HD

    A spoiled rich girl is brought down to earth by the man who loves her.

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  • 1926
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    Mismates

    Mismates

    1 1926 HD

    "Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support himself and his wife, he soon craves the accustomed luxury and deserts his wife and child. On false information provided by the boy's mother and substantiated by himself the wife is sent to jail and the child kidnapped by the husband. This is where the drama kicks in.

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  • 1943
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    Tarzan's Desert Mystery

    Tarzan's Desert Mystery

    6.1 1943 HD

    A letter from Jane, who is nursing British troops, asks Tarzan's help in obtaining a malaria serum extractable from jungle plants. Tarzan and Boy set out across the desert looking for the plants. Along the way they befriend a stranded American lady magician.

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  • 1942
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    To the Shores of Tripoli

    To the Shores of Tripoli

    5.438 1942 HD

    Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.

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  • 1926
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    The Pig's Curly Tail

    The Pig's Curly Tail

    1 1926 HD

    Two pigs steal the snobby Mrs. Hippo's new Ford and, while being pursued by the police, they hit a stone wall, fly into the air and land in a laundry. They get involved with a clothes-wringer, their tails are caught in the rollers, and they come out with corkscrew tails. In the live action, animator Walter Lantz, as he finishes the story, is being led away by the keeper of the local insane asylum.

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  • 1939
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    Stanley and Livingstone

    Stanley and Livingstone

    6.3 1939 HD

    When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

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  • 1945
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    Woman Who Came Back

    Woman Who Came Back

    5.5 1945 HD

    A young woman is tormented by the belief that she is the victim of a witch's curse.

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  • 1946
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    Murder in the Music Hall

    Murder in the Music Hall

    4.6 1946 HD

    An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

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  • 1944
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    Double Exposure

    Double Exposure

    5.5 1944 HD

    In New York City, a newly hired photographer becomes embroiled in a scandal when her photo is mistaken for evidence of a murder and she must try to prove her own innocence.

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  • 1939
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    Frontier Marshal

    Frontier Marshal

    6.2 1939 HD

    Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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  • 1943
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    Women in Bondage

    Women in Bondage

    5.7 1943 HD

    Women in Bondage is a 1943 World War II film about conditions for women under Hitler's regime. The plot involves two women imprisoned for speaking out against the government. It was directed by Steve Sekely and starred Gail Patrick and Nancy Kelly.

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  • 1944
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    Show Business

    Show Business

    5 1944 HD

    Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

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  • 1943
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    Tornado

    Tornado

    5.5 1943 HD

    The owner of an Illinois coal mine struggles to keep his business in operation, all the while unaware that among his employees is a saboteur planning destruction and chaos.

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  • 1940
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    He Married His Wife

    He Married His Wife

    5.1 1940 HD

    Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.

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  • 1935
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    Convention Girl

    Convention Girl

    6 1935 HD

    Wily hotel 'hostess' Babe LaVal navigates booming business, cabaret calls and shady deals in Atlantic City. She meets a soup magnate, and begins to feel it might be 'the real thing'.

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  • 1941
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    Parachute Battalion

    Parachute Battalion

    5.5 1941 HD

    Director Leslie Goodwins' 1941 military drama, about various men who become buddies when they join the paratroopers, stars Robert Preston, Edmond O'Brien and Buddy Ebsen.

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  • 1938
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    Submarine Patrol

    Submarine Patrol

    6.6 1938 HD

    A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

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  • 1944
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    Gambler's Choice

    Gambler's Choice

    5.8 1944 HD

    The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York...

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  • 1975
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    The Impostor

    The Impostor

    6 1975 HD

    An ex-Army intelligence agent is hired to impersonate a rich builder who has been marked for assassination. While impersonating the builder, he discovers a conspiracy to embezzle a land-development company.

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  • 1926
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    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    1 1926 HD

    Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby's circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.

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  • 1929
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    The Girl on the Barge

    The Girl on the Barge

    1 1929 HD

    The illiterate daughter of a drunken, nasty sea captain falls in love with a tugboat pilot. Her father disapproves of the relationship, and is determined to do everything he can to break it up.

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  • 1940
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    Sailor's Lady

    Sailor's Lady

    4 1940 HD

    Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

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  • 1941
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    Scotland Yard

    Scotland Yard

    1 1941 HD

    Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery.

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  • 1945
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    Song of the Sarong

    Song of the Sarong

    5 1945 HD

    An adventurer is promised $1 million if he can recover a fortune in pearls, but they are guarded by a tribe of fierce natives.

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  • 1956
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    Crowded Paradise

    Crowded Paradise

    1 1956 HD

    A Puerto Rican immigrant anxiously awaits his wedding day, but his fiancé's racist landlord intervenes.

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  • 1977
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    Murder at the World Series

    Murder at the World Series

    6.5 1977 HD

    A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.

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  • 1942
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    Friendly Enemies

    Friendly Enemies

    5.7 1942 HD

    During World War I, two German men friends who emigrated to the US and become millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding the war, while the other stays stubbornly loyal to "the old country". His stubbornness results in tragedy for his old friend and a lesson in the consequences of blind loyalty.

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  • 1945
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    Follow That Woman

    Follow That Woman

    6 1945 HD

    A private detective's wife takes over his business when he enters the Army.

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  • 1941
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    A Very Young Lady

    A Very Young Lady

    1 1941 HD

    A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.

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  • 1940
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    Private Affairs

    Private Affairs

    1 1940 HD

    A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.

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  • 1962
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    The Storm

    The Storm

    1 1962 HD

    A newlywed woman is alone in her home during a devastating storm. As she waits for her husband to return, she is besieged by menacing sounds throughout the house, power outages, a jumpy pet black cat, and a creepy cabbie. After much deliberation, she decides to investigate a strange disturbance in the storm cellar.

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  • 1929
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    Glorifying the American Girl

    Glorifying the American Girl

    5.313 1929 HD

    A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She is accompanied on piano by her childhood boyfriend, who is in love with her, despite her single-minded interest in her career. When a vaudeville performer asks her to join him as his new partner, she sees it as an opportunity to make her dream come true. Upon arriving in New York City, our heroine finds out that her new partner is only interested in sleeping with her and makes this a condition of making her a star. Soon, however, she is discovered by a representative of Ziegfeld.

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  • 1957
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    Circle of the Day

    Circle of the Day

    1 1957 HD

    On her tenth wedding anniversary (which is also her daughter's birthday), a wife begins to suspect her husband of unfaithfulness.

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  • 1969
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    Medical Center

    Medical Center

    6.1 1969 HD

    Medical Center is a medical drama series which aired on CBS from 1969 to 1976. It was produced by MGM Television.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    5 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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  • 1962
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    Sam Benedict

    Sam Benedict

    6 1962 HD

    Sam Benedict is an American legal drama that aired on NBC from September 1962 to March 1963. The series was created and executive produced by E. Jack Neuman. Sam Benedict is based on real-life lawyer Jacob W. "Jake" Erlich, who served as technical consultant for the series.

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  • 1960
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.6 1960 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1954
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    Climax!

    Climax!

    3.3 1954 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

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  • 1948
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    The Philco Television Playhouse

    The Philco Television Playhouse

    6.3 1948 HD

    The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series was sponsored by Philco. It was one of the most respected dramatic shows of the Golden Age of Television, winning a 1954 Peabody Award and receiving eight Emmy nominations between 1951 and 1956.

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  • 1949
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    Suspense

    Suspense

    4.9 1949 HD

    An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.

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  • 1953
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    The Oscars

    The Oscars

    6.961 1953 HD

    An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.

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  • 1975
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    Bronk

    Bronk

    6.2 1975 HD

    Bronk is an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex Bronkov. The series is set in the fictional Ocean City, California. 24 episodes were aired from September 21, 1975 to March 28, 1976 on CBS. The series lasted only one season.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.8 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, which ran only one season and was eventually replaced by other shows. In 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    5 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    5 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    5 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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  • 1962
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    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

    7.9 1962 HD

    A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

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