Prince of players

Folger bibliographic ID: 354451
Folger call number: DVD 378
Folger holdings ID: 502659
Accession Number: 270216

"The story of eminent American tragedian Edwin Booth, whose life and career is thrown into turmoil with the death of his wife--and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Edwin's younger brother John Wilkes Booth"--Container

General notes

DVD-R, NTSC, all regions ; full frame (4:3 screen ratio); monaural Based on the book by Eleanor Ruggles DVD release of the 1955 feature film 4:3 pan & scan "This film has been modified from its original version. It has been modified to fit this screen"--opening stillscreen

Cast

Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Charles Bickford, Elizabeth Sellars, Eva Le Gallienne

Credits

Director of photography, Charles G. Clarke ; editor, Dorothy Spencer ; music, Bernard Herrmann

Uniform title: Prince of players (Motion picture)
Extended title: Prince of players Twentieth Century Fox presents a CinemaScope production ; written for the screen by Moss Hart ; produced and directed by Philip Dunne

Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893 Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 Booth family Actors

subject: Booth, Edwin, 1833-1893
subject: Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865
subject: Booth family
film producer: Dunne, Philip, 1908-1992
screenwriter: Hart, Moss, 1904-1961
actor: Burton, Richard, 1925-1984
actor: Derek, John, 1926-1998
actor: McNamara, Maggie, 1928-1978
actor: Bickford, Charles, 1891-1967
actor: Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991
actor: Massey, Raymond
actor: Sellars, Elizabeth, 1923-
production company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
film distributor: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.