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The Taming of the Shrew

March 18, 1956

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Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.

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Hallmark Hall of Fame: Season 5 - 7 Episode s

5x1 - Alice in Wonderland
October 23, 1955
Adaptation of the stage version devised by Le Gallienne and Friebus of the children's classic by Lewis Carroll.
5x2 - The Devil's Disciple
November 20, 1955
An Americanization of the play by George Bernard Shaw: Dick Dudgeon is the local scapegrace in the New Hampshire community of Yankees where he lives. Even his own mother becomes fed up with the way he flouts the cardinal rules of good sense, good manners and good religion, and throws him out of the house. Judith, Parson Anderson's pretty wife, also has a low opinion of Dick. But Shaw proves Dick's heart is in the right place for he's kind to a poor, belabored servant girl, and, it being the time of the American Revolution, he shortly becomes a Yankee hero.
5x3 - Dream Girl
December 11, 1955
Adaptation of the Broadway play by Elmer Rice. A fashionable young woman escapes her dull life and demanding mother by dwelling in a world of outrageous daydreams.
5x4 - The Corn is Green
January 8, 1956
Adaptation of the play by Emlyn Williams. A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius.
5x5 - The Good Fairy
February 5, 1956
Theatre usherette Lu thinks of herself as a ""good fairy"" attempting to bring happiness to all she meets.
5x6 - The Taming of the Shrew
March 18, 1956
Adaptation of the Shakespeare play.
5x7 - The Cradle Song
May 6, 1956
In a Spanish monastery, a baby left on the doorstep is raised by the strict head mother and the young nuns. At age 18, she is to be married and will leave the convent.

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