cast
- Alistair Cooke Self - Host
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Leonard Bernstein
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James Daly
Narrator / General Robert E. Lee / St. Clare / Colonel Billy Mitchell
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Helen Hayes
Bessie Arlington / Mrs. Dearth / Mrs. Howard V. Larue III
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Royal Dano
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Jonathan Harris
Courcelles / Matey
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Crahan Denton
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Joanne Woodward
Ann Rutledge
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Jessica Tandy
Jackie / Self - Reader / Louisa Catherine Johnson
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Bert Lahr
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Christopher Plummer
Oedipus / Thomas Mendip
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Nita Talbot
Letitia
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Neva Patterson
Mrs. Lansdowne / Mrs. Coade
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Marian Seldes
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Richard Kiley
The Prosecuting Attorney / Actor
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Philip Abbott
Thomas Jefferton
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Larry Blyden
Teddy Roosevelt / Kid Burns
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Edward Binns
Bitter ex-beau
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Peter Ustinov
Marshal / Dr. Samuel Johnson
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Michael Strong
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Mike Nichols
- Ignatius Wolfington
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William Windom
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Lynn Loring
Eva
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Elaine May
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Berry Kroeger
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Hume Cronyn
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Conrad Janis
Self
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Lloyd Bochner
First Gentleman
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William Shatner
Palace Messenger
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Tammy Grimes
Mary Jane Jenkins
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Orson Bean
Narrator
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John McGovern
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Fritz Weaver
Newspaper Photographer
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Barry Jones
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Victor Jory
Captain Kidd
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Shepperd Strudwick
Charles Francis Adams
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E.G. Marshall
Actor
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Arthur Franz
Fred
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Jack Lord
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Alexander Scourby
El Indio / Odysseus
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John Cassavetes
Pepe
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Walter Slezak
Toine / Major Paul Petkoff
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Gene Reynolds
Archie Goodwin
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Ludwig Donath
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Carol Burnett
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Elliott Reid
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Michael Redgrave
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Carmen Mathews
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Bea Arthur
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Lilia Skala
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William Saroyan
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Frank Sutton
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Cyril Ritchard
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Ethel Barrymore
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Eugene Ormandy
- Douglass Watson
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Nancy Wickwire
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Robert Altman
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James Mitchell
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Edwin Sherin
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Johnny Unitas
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Doro Merande
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Yul Brynner
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Charlton Heston
Self - Presenter
- Nadine Conner
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Dorothy Malone
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Evelyn Rudie
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Alan Badel
Fool
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Joseph Schildkraut
- Patrick McAlinney
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Lilyan Chauvin
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Mabel Paige
- Joseph Anthony
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Dickie Moore
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Vaughn Taylor
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Sal Mineo
- Edward Villella
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Herb Voland
M. Dupin
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Mary Ure
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Russell Nype
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Fredric March
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Siobhán McKenna
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Carol Channing
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Arthur O'Connell
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Lew Ayres
- Phyllis Hill
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Buddy Ebsen
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George Mitchell
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James Dean
Bronco Evans
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Jeff Donnell
Helen
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Susan Strasberg
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Enid Markey
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Everett Sloane
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Jocelyn Brando
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Rex Harrison
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David Wayne
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Beatrice Straight
Goneril
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Esther Williams
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Rosemary Harris
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Mickey Mantle
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Bruce Kirby
- Irwin Corey
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Rip Torn
- Joan Diener
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Jonathan Winters
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Arthur Shields
Jacob O'Shaughnessy
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Bramwell Fletcher
Earl of Kent
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Dennis Patrick
- Gerald Hiken
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Judith Evelyn
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Lorne Greene
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John Beal
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Pat Stanley
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Sam Levene
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Sugar Ray Robinson
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Patricia Smith
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Orson Welles
King Lear
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Charles Aidman
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Joe Mantell
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Doreen Lang
- James Pritchett
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Eddie Hodges
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Jason Robards
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Patrick Adiarte
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Elizabeth Wilson
- John Marriott
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William Traylor
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Ruth McDevitt
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Dick Button
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George Mathews
- Frank Marth
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Gene Kelly
Self (segment)
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Addison Powell
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Robert Allen
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Natasha Parry
Cordelia
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Arnold Moss
Duke of Albany
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Wesley Addy
King of France
- Ludi Claire segment "The Fine Art of Murder"
- Robert Eckles Nero Wolfe
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Dennis Hoey
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Rex Stout
Self
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Micheál Mac Liammóir
Poor Tom
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Tom Clancy
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Mark Daniels
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Eartha Kitt
Self - Singer (segment "Eartha Kitt")
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Ruth Draper
Self - Monologist (segment "The Children's Party")
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Audrey Christie
Miss Kingsley
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Jack Benny
Athanael
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Lester Matthews
The Chief
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Byron Foulger
Horatio
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Harry Shearer
Johnny
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Beverly Washburn
Angela
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Ann Doran
Angela's Mother
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Kevin McCarthy
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Anne Jackson
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Alan Hewitt
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Harry Bellaver
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Lilli Palmer
Anne Boleyn
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Sidney Poitier
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Eva Marie Saint
Actress
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Katharine Bard
Lizzie Borden
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Katharine Ross
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Dick York
Nick
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Scott Forbes
Duke of Cornwall
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Eric Fleming
Self
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Ray Walston
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Hurd Hatfield
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Paul Mazursky
- Harry Stanton
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Ed Begley
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Frances Sternhagen
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Hal March
George Bidwell
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Donald Harron
Jack Purdie
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Georgann Johnson
Joanna Trout
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Paul Hartman
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Martin Landau
Jokanaan / John the Baptist
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Darren McGavin
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Ruth White
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Hermione Gingold
Mrs. Hardcastle
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Barbara Jefford
Kate Hardcastle
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Art Carney
Self
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John Sebastian
Self - Harmonica Player
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Eli Wallach
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Jacqueline Scott
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Edward Andrews
Colonel Livingstone
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Herbie Faye
Self - Performer
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Bruce Gordon
Lt. Gen. James Longstreet
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Wesley Lau
Maj. Gen. John B. Hood
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William Smithers
Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill
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Frank Aletter
Skiddy
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Lee Meriwether
Beautiful Witch
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Ed Asner
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Joseph Campanella
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Kay Medford
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Tom Pedi
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Joseph Ruskin
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George C. Scott
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Andrew Duggan
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Julie Newmar
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Dan Tobin
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Keenan Wynn
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George Grizzard
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Suzanne Pleshette
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Peter Falk
Charlie
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John Colicos
Gen. George McClellan
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Dana Elcar
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Michael Tolan
Abraham Lincoln
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Geraldine Page
Governess
- Bobby Clark Painter
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Tommy Rettig
Robert
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Hans Conried
Iago in 'Othello' /Marcello in acted version of 'La Boheme'
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Jean Marsh
Mimi in 'La Boheme'
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Jean-Pierre Aumont
Captain Bluntschli
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Nanette Fabray
Raina Petkoff
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Kent Smith
Sergius Saranoff
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Elsa Lanchester