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Tom Sawyer was a one-hour musical by Frank Luther, originally created for the television series The U.S. Steel Hour. It was broadcast live on CBS November 21, 1956, and marked the first time the anthology series had presented a musical.Luther said the show evolved from his re-reading of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer a few years earlier: "(W)henever an incident or character gave me an idea for a song, I'd write the music and words," Luther told an interviewer in 1957. "By the time I'd reached the end of the book, I found I had written 32 songs.The cast included John Sharpe as Tom Sawyer, Jimmy Boyd as Huckleberry Finn, Bennye Gatteys as Becky Thatcher, Rose Bampton as Aunt Polly, Matt Mattox as Injun Joe and Clarence Cooper as Jim the Narrator. A cast album was released on Decca

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rdfs:label	Tom Sawyer (1956 musical) (en)
rdfs:comment	Tom Sawyer was a one-hour musical by Frank Luther, originally created for the television series The U.S. Steel Hour. It was broadcast live on CBS November 21, 1956, and marked the first time the anthology series had presented a musical.Luther said the show evolved from his re-reading of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer a few years earlier: "(W)henever an incident or character gave me an idea for a song, I'd write the music and words," Luther told an interviewer in 1957. "By the time I'd reached the end of the book, I found I had written 32 songs.The cast included John Sharpe as Tom Sawyer, Jimmy Boyd as Huckleberry Finn, Bennye Gatteys as Becky Thatcher, Rose Bampton as Aunt Polly, Matt Mattox as Injun Joe and Clarence Cooper as Jim the Narrator. A cast album was released on Decca (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	1956 musicals Decca Records 1950s English-language films The United States Steel Hour Thomas Hart Benton (painter) Bennye Gatteys Frank Luther Rose Bampton CBS Timmy Everett Musical television films Musicals based on works by Mark Twain Jimmy Boyd Kevin Coughlin The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Works based on The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn Matt Mattox Tom Sawyer The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn dbr:Theater_Guild
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caption	Tom Sawyer puffs on a corncob pipe (en)
country	United States (en)
director	John Haggott (en)
distributor	CBS (en)
language	English (en)
music	Frank Luther
runtime	3600.0 (second)
starring	Bennye Gatteys Rose Bampton Timmy Everett Jimmy Boyd Kevin Coughlin Matt Mattox John Sharpe (en) Clarence Cooper (en)
studio	The United States Steel Hour dbr:Theater_Guild
has abstract	Tom Sawyer was a one-hour musical by Frank Luther, originally created for the television series The U.S. Steel Hour. It was broadcast live on CBS November 21, 1956, and marked the first time the anthology series had presented a musical.Luther said the show evolved from his re-reading of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer a few years earlier: "(W)henever an incident or character gave me an idea for a song, I'd write the music and words," Luther told an interviewer in 1957. "By the time I'd reached the end of the book, I found I had written 32 songs.The cast included John Sharpe as Tom Sawyer, Jimmy Boyd as Huckleberry Finn, Bennye Gatteys as Becky Thatcher, Rose Bampton as Aunt Polly, Matt Mattox as Injun Joe and Clarence Cooper as Jim the Narrator. A cast album was released on Decca Records shortly after the broadcast, featuring several songs omitted from the original show. The show's sets and backgrounds were designed by Thomas Hart Benton. Luther was commissioned to follow up the show with a musical adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, also starring Boyd, which was broadcast on The U.S. Steel Hour November 22, 1957. (en)
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distributor	CBS
music composer	Frank Luther
production company	The United States Steel Hour dbr:Theater_Guild
starring	Bennye Gatteys Rose Bampton Timmy Everett Jimmy Boyd Kevin Coughlin Matt Mattox
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