Norman Corwin
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Thursday, August 21, 2003
Norman Corwin joined CBS in 1938.
First original script as writer-director-producer was THE PLOT
TO OVERTHROW CHRISTMAS, one of only two all-rhymed plays ever broadcast over a national
network, on Christmas night, 1938.
The
second all-rhymer, 7 years later, was THE UNDECIDED MOLECULE, starring
Groucho Marx.
Wrote, directed and produced NORMAN CORWIN'S WORDS WITHOUT MUSIC, 1938-39.
Directed,
partially wrote THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, 1939. Wrote, directed and
produced 26 BY CORWIN series on the Columbia Workshop, 1941.
Wrote, directed and produced AN AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, 1942 from England.
Wrote, directed and produced COLUMBIA PRESENTS CORWIN, 1944-45
Wrote, directed and produced WORD FROM THE PEOPLE, at opening session of
United Nations in San Francisco, 1945.
Wrote,
directed and produced ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, May 8, 1945. (Released
simultaneously as a book and a Columbia Records album.)
Wrote NETWORK AT FIFTY, delivered by Walter Cronkite, on CBS's 50th
Anniversary---- 1952 (?)