Clifton Fadiman Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Information Please: Series 2, No. 12

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We have writer Fadiman, regulars Franklin P. Adams, Oscar Levant, and John Kieran, with Boris Karloff as the guest panelist for this edition of Information Please.

Information Please: Series 2, No. 12

Self - Host

Information Please Series 2, No. 2MOVIE

Information Please Series 2, No. 2

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This issue of RKO's Information Please series, based on the radio program featuring most of the same people, has Howard Lindsay, co-author and co-star of the then-current Broadway play, "Life With Father", as a visiting guest expert. Questions involved football plays, license plates and plays that dealt with family relationships.

Information Please Series 2, No. 2

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Information Please: Series 1, No. 10MOVIE

Information Please: Series 1, No. 10

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Deems Taylor joins Clifton Fadiman and the Information Please regular panel members, Oscar Levant, Franklin P. Adams and John Kieran, for this entry in the series based on the radio program.

Information Please: Series 1, No. 10

Himself - Resident Host

Here Is ChinaMOVIE

Here Is China

A documentary giving a short history of China and how it was being affected by the Japanese invasion during World War II, aka The Second Sino-Japanese War.

Information Please: Series 1, No. 1

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Information Please: Series 1, No. 1 is a 1939 short film of the famous show from RKO Radio. The segment stars Clifton Fadiman, Rex Stout, and John Kieran.It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel, a rare instance of a game show being nominated for an Academy Award.

Information Please: Series 1, No. 1

Himself - Host

The Year Gone ByMOVIE

The Year Gone By

CBS News correspondent Howard K. Smith hosts this year end look at 1958, specifically in the area of the sciences, arts, and humanities.

The Year Gone By

Self

Production

The Magic ShopMOVIE

The Magic Shop

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A boy and his father enter a magic shop where the magic may be all too real

The Reformation: Age of Revolt

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of Martin Luther as a part and/of these conditions as indications of future trends.

The Reformation: Age of Revolt

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Bartleby

Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a scrivener in a 1969 film production of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.

The Lottery

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Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as part of a ritual to ensure a good harvest.

The Borrowers

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An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.

Walt Whitman: Poet for a New Age

An introduction to Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and journalist. A world poet-a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare.