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Dusty Portrait

"Dusty Portrait"
The Philco Television Playhouse episode
Episode no.Season 4
Episode 11
Directed byDelbert Mann
Written bySumner Locke Elliott
Original air dateMarch 9, 1952 (1952-03-09)
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"Dusty Portrait" is a 1952 American television play by Sumner Locke Elliott.[1][2] It was based on the Florence Maybrick case.[3]

Elliott had a very small role.[4]

Premise

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" Florence Chandler, a young American girl who marries James Maybrick, a Liverpool manufacturer. He takes her to live in the gloomy Maybrick house supervised by his bitter sister, Edith Maybrick. When James dies, Edith accuses Florence of having brought about his death by the use of arsenic poisoning, and so began one of the most famous trials in history. This case helped to bring about the reform in English law providing for a Court of Criminal Appeal."[5]

Cast

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1953 radio version

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Elliott did a radio adaptation of his script.[6] It was produced for the General Motors Hour with Dinah Shearing.[7][8][5]

The Adelaide Mail called it "strong, almost faultless drama."[9] The Age called it "an extremely well put together story".[10]

References

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  1. ^ Papers to do with Dustry Portrait at Vanderbilt
  2. ^ "Television this week". The Kansas City Star. 30 March 1952. p. 6D.
  3. ^ "RADIO PLAY BILL". Daily Mirror. No. 3713. New South Wales, Australia. 29 April 1953. p. 24 (Cable Edition). Retrieved 20 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "ARTHUR POLKINCIIORNE'S". The Sun. No. 13, 153. New South Wales, Australia. 26 March 1952. p. 17 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 20 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ a b Australian Broadcasting Commission. (25 April 1953), "COMMERCIAL", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, nla.obj-1687508341, retrieved 20 September 2024 – via Trove
  6. ^ "Hear Here". Daily Mirror. No. 3684. New South Wales, Australia. 25 March 1953. p. 36 (Late Final Extra). Retrieved 20 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "GUY CRITTENDEN'S 2WL RADIO ROUND-UP". South Coast Times And Wollongong Argus. Vol. LIII, no. 32. New South Wales, Australia. 27 April 1953. p. 2 (South Coast Times AND WOLLONGONG ARGUS FEATURE SECTION). Retrieved 20 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "Chinese bass for concert tour". The Sun. No. 13, 483. New South Wales, Australia. 28 April 1953. p. 22 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 20 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "John Quinn's RADIO ROUND-UP". The Mail (Adelaide). Vol. 43, no. 2, 134. South Australia. 2 May 1953. p. 59. Retrieved 20 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ "THE WEEK IN WIRELESS". The Age. No. 30, 578. Victoria, Australia. 2 May 1953. p. 16. Retrieved 20 September 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
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