Claudette Colbert (Emilie Chauchoin)

(September 13, 1903-July 30, 1996)

Colbert co-starred with Clark Gable in the film It Happened One Night
(1934) for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She
intended to become a fashion designer before acting on Broadway.

In 1999, the American Film Institute voted Colbert the "12th Greatest
Female American Screen Legend" in cinema.

The syndicated action crime drama series was produced from 1955  to 1959 

Norman Corwin Directing Columbia Workshop from the control booth

Columbia Workshop was an educational radio series that aired on the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) from 1936 to 1943, returning in 1946-47. It was a
sustaining program that served as a symbol to prove to the public, as well as the
Federal Communications Commission, that CBS was concerned with educating
and serving the public.

Orson Welles

Duel was Steven Spielberg’s second feature-length directing effort, after his
1971 The Name of the Game NBC-TV series episode "L.A. 2017". It was two
years after a well-received turn directing a segment of the pilot-movie for the
anthology television series Night Gallery and several other TV episodes. Duel
was initially shown on television as an ABC Movie of the Week on Saturday,
November 13, 1971. It was later released to cinemas in Europe and Australia,
with a limited cinema release to some venues in the United States. The film’s
success enabled Spielberg to establish himself as a film director. It is one of 
only two Spielberg-directed theatrical films for which John Williams did not 
create the score, the other being The Color Purple (1985).

Lurene Tuttle and Howard Duff during an episode of Sam Spade

The Adventures of Sam Spade was a radio series based loosely on the private
detective character Sam Spade, created by writer Dashiell Hammett for The
Maltese Falcon. The show ran for 13 episodes on ABC in 1946, for 157
episodes on CBS in 1946-1949, and finally for 51 episodes on NBC in
1949-1951. The series starred Howard Duff (and later, Steve Dunne)
as Sam Spade and Lurene Tuttle as his secretary Effie.

William Spier Producer/Director of The Adventures
of Sam Spade