"OUR TOWN"

(9/19/55)

musical version of Thornton Wilder's 1938 stage play (the most performed American stage play), adapted for television by David Shaw, with original music by James Van Heusen and lyrics by Sammy Cahn, produced by Fred Coe, directed by Delbert Mann, Associate Director Dominick Dunne, orchestrations and musical direction by Nelson Riddle, vocal direction by Norman Luboff; play depicts life in a rural New Hampshire village, with its humor and pathos; stars Frank Sinatra as the Stage Manager, and Eva Marie Saint and Paul Newman as the young lovers, Ernest Truex and Sylvia Field as his parents and Paul Hartman and Peg Hillias as her parents, supported by Shelley Fabares, Tony Sydes, David Saber, Carol Veazie, Charlotte Knight, and Harvey B. Dunne; songs written especially for this television production included both "The Impatient Years" and "Love and Marriage;" this is believed to be the only entertainment program in which Paul Newman sings (in this case, a duet with Eva Marie Saint). Won Emmy (1954) Best Musical Contribution (Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen) for the song "Love and Marriage."

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