The Plot to Overthrow Christmas is a radio play written by Norman Corwin. It was first performed on December 25, 1938. The play is a fantasy story about...
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Will Geer (category Members of the Communist Party USA)
Mephistopheles (the devil) in the 1938 and 1944 productions of Norman Corwin's The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. Geer also acted in the radio soap opera Bright...
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Norman Corwin's 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. In 1973, Platt raised the money to produce one of the first independent feature films...
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Henry Morgan (humorist) (redirect from The Henry Morgan Show)
often. Morgan appeared in the December 1944 CBS Radio original broadcast of Norman Corwin's play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, taking several minor roles...
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Kathleen Freeman (category UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture alumni)
September 13, 1997. Retrieved August 6, 2024. Webber, Peggy. "The Plot to overthrow Christmas". Pacifica Radio Archives .org. Retrieved August 6, 2024. written...
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to Overthrow Christmas, with McIntire as the Devil and Nolan as Lucrezia Borgia. In 1977, they appeared in Disney's twenty-third animated film The Rescuers...
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Radio Daily: 8. November 30, 1937. Retrieved November 22, 2015. "Christmas on the Networks". Radio Daily: 10. December 23, 1937. Retrieved November 22...
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Santa Claus in the 1969 KCET television reading of his 1938 play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. In television commercials Reed was the voice over for...
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emperor Nero to a meeting called by the Devil in the 1969 KCET television reading of Norman Corwin's 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. He made...
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play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, McIntire played the Devil and Nolan played Lucrezia Borgia. In 1977 they appeared in the Disney animated film The Rescuers...
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Norman Corwin (section Listen to)
during the golden age of radio. Notable programs include: The Plot to Overthrow Christmas – December 25, 1938 They Fly through the Air with the Greatest...
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Santa Claus (redirect from Letters to Father Christmas)
The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, set entirely in rhyme, details a conspiracy of the Devil Mephistopheles and damned figures of history to defeat the good...
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Karl Swenson (section Listen to)
television reading of Norman Corwin's 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. Swenson was married to actress Joan Tompkins. Swenson died of a heart...
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Parley Baer (category Articles to be expanded from March 2022)
in the 1969 KCET television reading of his 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. As an on-camera performer, Baer was recognizable by his distinctive...
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supplied the voice of "Ro-Man" in the 1953 cult science fiction B-film Robot Monster. In early television, Brown was the second actor (after Hal March) to play...
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Corwin's The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. Scharf died of heart failure at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, at the age of 92. Scharf...
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Alice in Wonderland as the White Rabbit,:And In Norman Corwin's Plot to Overthrow Christmas with CART, as Nero's messenger opposite David Warner. He Was...
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Eric Burroughs (category Male actors from the Bronx)
in the role of the Roman emperor Nero, sent by the Devil to assassinate Santa Claus, in Corwin's 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. The play...
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Otherworld Media listing of the Walcutt/Ossman production The Plot to Overthrow Christmas by Norman Corwin on Tangent Online Public Reader Blog containing...
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List of coups and coup attempts by country (redirect from German coup plot)
attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government. Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government...
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House Jameson (category Members of The Lambs Club)
including The Plot to Overthrow Christmas (as Santa Claus), They Fly Through the Air, Seems Radio Is Here To Stay, There Will Be Time Later, Log of the R-77...
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Arthur Anderson (Ghost of Christmas Past), Eustace Wyatt (Ghost of Christmas Present), Frank Readick (Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come), Alfred Shirley (Marley's...
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December 1938 (category Months in the 1930s)
in a train collision south of Chișinău in Romania. The radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas by Norman Corwin was first performed on CBS. Born: Duane...
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A coup d'état, often abbreviated to coup, is the overthrow of a lawful government through illegal means. If force or violence are not involved, such an...
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Columbia Workshop (redirect from The Columbia Workshop)
radio series that aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1936 to 1943, returning in 1946–47. The series began as the idea of Irving Reis. Reis...
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Belsnickel, who plots to overthrow Santa. Valentine D'Arcy Sheldon's children's picture book, The Christmas Tree Elf, tells the origin story of how Santa...
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Musa Cerantonio (redirect from Tinnie terror plot)
2019). "Melbourne men jailed over 'poorly planned' Filipino government overthrow plot". ABC News (on-line). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved...
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List of Barbie films (redirect from Barbie: A Perfect Christmas)
trying to overthrow the Fairy Queen. She goes to save the Enchanted Forest. Based on the Mark Twain classic tale and the first musical film in the series...
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Punjab to Singapore. This plot was planned to be executed in February 1915 with the aim of overthrowing British rule over the Indian subcontinent. The February...
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2023 Moldovan coup attempt allegations (category Events affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine)
what they claimed were Russian plans to orchestrate an overthrow of the Moldovan government. The existence of the coup plan was first alleged by Ukrainian...
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