''Stars Over Hollywood'' (also known as ''Armour Theatre'') is an American anthology television series of "original comedies and light dramas" produced by
Revue Productions. Revue's first television series, it was a filmed in
Hollywood and aired on the
National Broadcasting Company
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It is one of NBCUniversal's ...
(NBC) from September 6, 1950, to August 29, 1951.
[Brooks, Tim & Marsh, Earle (1979). ''The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present''. Ballantine Books. . P. 587.]
Among the guest stars were
Mary Stuart in the premiere presentation "Beauty Is a Joy",
Raymond Burr,
Cameron Mitchell,
Ann Rutherford, and
Bruce Cabot. Otherwise, the program generally featured lesser-known actors and actresses.
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''Stars Over Hollywood''s producer was Axel Gruenberg. He and Jack Hively were writers for the program. The meat packing company Armour and Company was the sponsor of the program.
Rod Serling's first script, "Grady Everett for the People," was presented on the program][McNeil, Alex (1996). ''Total Television''. Penguin Books USA, Inc. . P. 788.] on September 13, 1950.
Episodes of ''Stars Over Hollywood'' were part of a syndicated syndication package, ''Famous Playhouse'', that was distributed by MCA Television, the syndication division of MCA Inc., in 1953. Other programs in the package were ''Chevron Theater'' and ''Gruen Theater''.
Critical response
In 1950, media critic John Crosby wrote: "''Stars Over Hollywood'' is the latest of the programs filmed especially for television in Hollywood and has all the conspicuous weaknesses of the others. ... All the TV productions emanating from Hollywood are slipshod. The actors seem insufficiently rehearsed; the quality of the writing is painfully bad; the casting seems to have been done out of card catalogues, and the direction, to put it mildly, is superficial."
References
External links
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''Stars Over Hollywood'' at CTVA with list of episodes
1950s American anthology television series
1950 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
NBC original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
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