{"id":3743,"date":"2020-01-23T17:59:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T17:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcftr-dev.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/news\/and-emmy-goes\/"},"modified":"2022-11-24T02:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T02:12:50","slug":"and-emmy-goes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/2020\/01\/23\/and-emmy-goes\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Emmy goes to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Emmys.jpg\" class=\"colorbox colorbox-insert-image\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"image-large alignright size-full wp-image-3742\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Emmys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"294\" \/> <\/a> And the Emmy goes to\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>The television collections at the WCFTR span from the 1940s to the late 1990s. The Center has a number of significant collections documenting the first \u201cgolden age\u201d of television \u2013 particularly the live anthology drama series of the 1950s and early 1960s including <em>Producer\u2019s Showcase, Playhouse \u201990, Philco Television Playhouse, Goodyear Television Playhouse, <\/em>and <em>Armstrong Circle Theatre<\/em> to name a few. Writers like Paddy Chayefsky, Rod Serling, Reginald Rose and N. Richard Nash helped demonstrate that television could present complicated and emotional stories on the small screen. One of the champions of early television writers and directors was Fred Coe. As producer of first the <em>Philco Television Playhouse <\/em>and then <em>Playwrights \u201956 <\/em>and <em>Producer\u2019s Showcase<\/em>, Coe mentored people like Chayefsky, Arthur Penn and Delbert Mann who took what they learned in television to Hollywood and had successful film careers. Besides television, Coe also found success as a producer on Broadway (<em>The Trip to Bountiful, Two for the Seesaw,<\/em> <em>The Miracle Worker, A Thousand Clowns, <\/em>and in film (<em>The Miracle Worker, A Thousand Clowns<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>The WCFTR has two of Fred Coe\u2019s Emmy Awards: 1955 Best Producer \u2013 Live Series <em>Producer\u2019s Showcase<\/em> and 1959-1960 Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Drama <em>Playhouse \u201990<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to learn more about Fred Coe and the live drama series of the 1950s and early 1960s, please visit the WCFTR website and see the exhibit done by Jonah Horwitz:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/exhibits\/golden-age-television\/fred-coe-producer-extraordinaire\">https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/exhibits\/golden-age-television\/fred-coe-producer-extraordinaire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the Emmy goes to\u2026. The television collections at the WCFTR span from the 1940s to the late 1990s. The Center has a number of significant collections documenting the first \u201cgolden age\u201d of television \u2013 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":3742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[263],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcftr.commarts.wisc.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}