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For over thirty years, the California Artists Radio Theatre has presented the best
in dramas, comedies, and musicals, featuring renowned actors from Hollywood,
Broadway, Great Britain, and Ireland, performing award-winning scripts
adapted from modern and classic stories, books, and plays.

A THANKS TO GOD FOR ORSON
ON HIS CENTURY BIRTHDAY.

Many of us working in the CART plays, cut our baby teeth on a great impresario by the name of George Orson Welles.

How much we all loved him, and he knew it, and relished it, with the kind of joy only he could evoke.

Half a century, after many of us worked for him in the Scottish Play, a new version was produced for CART.

I was rewarded by Two Gold Medals from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting for adapting, directing and producing; but realized that almost fifty years had allowed me to reflect on the work with Orson. Dancing with Dick Wilson, Orson’s producer, at my daughter’s wedding a few days after Orson died, I said to him, “I do not want to live in a world without Orson.”

And Dick replied, “Neither do I.”

Orson Wells (Macbeth) with Jeanette Nolan (Lady Macbeth)

Jeanette Nolan as Lady Macbeth

Peggy Webber with Dan O'Herlihy

David Warner

Lady MacDuff, Peggy Webber, also voiced one of Welles’ Witches

The actors who worked for Welles, and are in CART's plays, were Jeanette Nolan, Dan O’Herlihy. Roddy McDowall, Elliott Reid, Alan Napier, Norman Lloyd and Peggy Webber. Jeanette Nolan reprised her role as Lady Macbeth, this time with David Warner. Elliott Reid appeared in both.

Some actors mentioned, are in CART’s other productions. Miss Webber directed CART’s version and worked for Orson Welles over a period of three years dubbing and looping his version of the Scottish play as well as voicing characters for other of his films, appearing in “Macbeth” as Lady Macduff and the voices of the witches, and some other characters.

— Peggy Webber for California Artists Radio Theatre

Heartbreak House by Shaw Stars Norman Lloyd at One Hundred! All star cast!

NPR’s Favorite CART comedy!

Shakespeare’s Daughter Searches for Father. Directed by "Irish Abbey’s" Vincent Dowling.

Oscar Wilde’s Ideal Husband Stars Edward Mulhare, David Warner, Samantha Eggar, Bairbre Dowling, Cornelia O’Herlihy, Charlotte Rae, Ian Abercrombie and William Windom!

Norman Corwin at One Hundred! Radio’s Premiere Writer!

Oscar In Limbo stars David Warner as Oscar Wilde

BRIGID OF KILDARE
A FAMILY EASTER PROGRAM BY
MYLA LICHTMAN FIELDS
LEINSTER AND CONNACHT IRELAND, 453 AD

Announcer: H.M. Wynant
STARRING
Lugair the Poet: James Lancaster
Brigid: Samantha Eggar
Arch Druid: Monte Markham
Brocessa:Elizabeth Dennehy
Brigid as a Child: Annie Gagen

Condla: Diane Mercer
Chief Dubtach: Richard Herd
Colm O’Shay: John O’Callaghan
Gwen O’Shay: Amelia White
Sister Claire: Annie Gagen
Bishop Mell: Joe Flood
Old Beggar: Tom Williams

For over thirty years, the California Artists Radio Theatre has presented the best in dramas, comedies, and musicals, featuring renowned actors from Hollywood, Broadway, Great Britain, and Ireland, performing award-winning scripts adapted from modern and classic stories, books, and plays.

A THANKS TO GOD FOR ORSON ON HIS CENTURY BIRTHDAY.

For over thirty years, the California Artists Radio Theatre has presented the best
in dramas, comedies, and musicals, featuring renowned actors from Hollywood,
Broadway, Great Britain, and Ireland, performing award-winning scripts
adapted from modern and classic stories, books, and plays.

A THANKS TO GOD FOR ORSON
ON HIS CENTURY BIRTHDAY.