Norman Corwin
Radio Personality, Author, and Playwright
Old-time radio...cereal or other proof of purchase. Outstanding radio dramas were presented on such programs as 26 by Corwin '', ''NBC Short Story, Arch Oboler's Plays, Quiet, Please, and CBS Radio Workshop. Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air... In this article: NBC Radio, World War II, John Barrymore, Sherlock Holmes, United States, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, and Arturo Toscanini |
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L.A. Times - Opinion Blog | September 18, 2009
A gold standard for Norman Corwin
...that Corwin counts me among his friends -- and I count myself among his fans. Another of his fans is filmmaker Michael James Kacey, who has taken up Corwin's cause. Kacey's website shows a Mt. Rushmore of radio with Corwin right up there with...
In this article: Academy Award, Franklin Roosevelt, Emmy, Los Angeles Times, Orson Welles, Barack Obama, and Jack Benny
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Wikipedia | August 23, 2009
Arthur Anderson (voice actor)
...end in 1954. In 2004, he wrote a history of the show, "Let's Pretend and the Golden Age of Radio" (BearManor Media), which includes a foreword by Norman Corwin and a complete broadcast log by Derek Tague and Martin Grams, Jr. Anderson...
In this article: Arthur Anderson, Orson Welles, Let's Pretend, Nila Mack, Lionel G. Wilson, Julius Caesar, General Mills, and Martin Grams, Jr.
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A peek under the hood as the Times considers Obama's Nobel Prize
...is filmmaker Michael James Kacey, who has taken up Corwin's cause. Kacey's website shows a Mt. Rushmore of radio with Corwin right up there with Orson Welles and Jack Benny. Now Kacey is campaigning for a Congressional Gold Medal for Norman...
In this article: Barack Obama, Boeing Co., Republican Party, Medicare, Roman Polanski, Glenn Beck, Coyote, Julius Shulman, and California
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Norman Corwin
...serious social issues. In this area he was a peer of Orson Welles and William N. Robson, and an inspiration to other later radio/TV writers such as Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, Norman Lear and J. Michael Straczynski. He is the son of...
In this article: Norman Lewis Corwin, William Shatner, National Public Radio, New York City, The Plot, Academy Award, Columbia Workshop, Ray Bradbury, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The Seattle Times | October 25, 2008
Entertainment Scary War put Welles on map Seattle Times Newspaper
...living rooms of America," Corwin, now 98, recalled recently from his Los Angeles home. Corwin, a major figure during radio's golden age, said that the "War of the Worlds" broadcast "first demonstrated the up-to-then unrealized ubiquity of...
In this article: Orson Welles, War of the Worlds, Mercury Theater, Hollywood, Citizen Kane, H.G. Wells, Broadway, and Culprit
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Norman Lewis Corwin (born May 3, 1910) is an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest success was in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s.
Corwin was among the first producers to regularly use entertainment -- even light entertainment -- to tackle serious social issues. In this area he was a peer to Orson Welles and William N. Robson, and an inspiration to other later radio/TV writers such as Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, Norman Lear and J. Michael Straczynski.
He is the son of Samuel and Rose Corwin and was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Corwin was a major figure in during the Golden Age of Radio. During the 1930s and 1940s he was a writer, producer of many radio programs in many genres: history, biography, fantasy, fiction, poetry and drama. He was the writer and creator of series such as The Columbia Workshop, 13 By Corwin, 26 By Corwin and others. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Southern California.
Corwin has won the One World Award, two Peabody Medals, an Emmy, a Golden Globe, a duPont-Columbia Award; he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for Lust for Life (1956). On May 12, 1990 Corwin received an Honorary Doctorate from Lincoln College. Corwin was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993. A documentary film on Corwin's life, A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin won an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Feature) in 2006.
- Birth Date:
- May 03, 1910
- Birthplace:
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Occupation:
- Writer and professor
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