March 24, 1939 - 00:58:11 - 26.6 MB

Orson Welles and The Campbell Playhouse presents Twentieth Century by Ben Hecht
and Charles MacArthur. Cast: Orson Welles (Oscar Jaffe), Elissa Landi (Lily
Garland), Sam Levene (Owen O'Malley), Ray Collins (Oliver Webb), Gus Schilling
(Max Jacobs), Toward Teichmann (Train Dispatcher), Edgar Kent (Clark), Everett
Sloane and Teddy Bergman (the Two Players). Interview with the cast and Broadway
press agent Richard Maney.

"Twentieth Century was a 1932 play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur based on
the unproduced play Napoleon of Broadway by Charles B. Millholland, inspired by
his experience working for the eccentric Broadway impresario David Belasco...
it ran for 152 performances. Moffat Johnston and Eugenie Leontovich were the stars,
with William Frawley in a featured role."

The play was adapted by Hecht and MacArthur for the film Twentieth Century (1934),
directed by Howard Hawks, starring John Barrymore, Carole Lombard and Walter Connolly.

There were multiple television adaptations with various stars including Fredric March
and Lilli Palmer (1949), Fred Clark and Constance Bennett (1953) and Orson Welles and
Betty Grable {1956).

In the 1970s, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, and Cy Coleman adapted the play to a musical,
"On the Twentieth Century", which opened on Broadway on February 19, 1978, starring
Madeline Kahn and John Cullum. It was directed by Harold Prince and played for 11 previews
and 449 performances. -wiki