Name: Hamlet
Genre: Drama
Released: 1953-04-26
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Maurice Evans, Wesley Addy, Norman Barrs

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This was the first American production of a Shakespeare play ever presented on network television which was more than an hour in length. There had been other Shakespeare productions on American TV (such as Walter Hampden's "Macbeth") before this "Hamlet", but they had reduced the plays being shown to only an hour. Maurice Evans had already starred in several Broadway productions of "Hamlet". This production also marked Evans' debut on network TV.

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Edited into Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)

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