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The Seven Lively Arts

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Country of origin
  
United States

Camera setup
  
Single-camera

Picture format
  
Black-and-white

Presented by
  
John Crosby

Cast
  
John Crosby

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Original language(s)
  
English

Running time
  
44 mins.

First episode date
  
1957

Genre
  
Anthology series

Executive producer
  
John Houseman

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Directed by
  
Mel FerrerGeorge Roy HillSidney LumetNorm Nowicki

Awards
  
Primetime Emmy Award for Best New Program Series Of The Year

Similar
  
The Sound of Jazz, The Gabby Hayes Show, Arthur Godfrey and His F, The Edsel Show, Pulitzer Prize Playhouse

The Seven Lively Arts is an American anthology series that aired on Sunday afternoons in 1957 on CBS television. The series was executive produced by John Houseman, and hosted by New York Herald Tribune critic John Crosby. The title was taken from the influential book of the same name written by the cultural critic Gilbert Seldes, in which he argued that the low arts (comics, vaudeville) deserved as much critical attention as the high arts (opera, literature).

The eleven programs produced were—not in order:

  • "The Revivalists" -- a profile of contemporary evangelism
  • "Hollywood around the World" -- a profile of overseas film productions directed by Mel Ferrer
  • "The Blast in Centralia #5" -- about a 1947 mine blast in Centralia, Illinois
  • "Here is New York" -- an essay about the city written by E.B. White and narrated by E.G. Marshall.
  • "A Few Folks And Their Songs" -- a program on folk music, hosted by Theodore Bikel
  • "The Nutcracker" -- the first television production of Tchaikovsky's ballet (heavily abridged)
  • "The World of Nick Adams" -- an adaptation combining five early Ernest Hemingway stories
  • "Profile of a Composer" -- a profile of American composer and choralist Norman Dello Joio
  • "Gold Rush" -- a ballet choreographed by Agnes de Mille
  • "The Sound of Jazz" -- The top jazz musicians of the day performing live.
  • "The Changing Ways of Love" -- the opening program, starring Piper Laurie and Jason Robards, written by S.J. Perelman

    • References

    The Seven Lively Arts Wikipedia
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