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S02 E35 – Medals for Harry

Alcoa Theatre

DirectorRobert Ellis Miller
ProducerWinston O’Keefe
Production CompanyColumbia Television
AiredJune 1st, 1959 on NBC
CastAlex Nicol (George Hadley), Eddie Ryder (Harry Russell), Ruta Lee (Emily Meadow), Tom Palmer (Prosecutor), Freeman Lusk (Judge), Guy Stockwell (Lieutenant), John Dennis (Quartermaster), Maria McClay (Japanese Store Clerk)
Maria McClay as a Japanese store clerk in conversation with Ruta Lee as Emily Meadow.

Maria plays a Japanese store clerk in this episode of the anthology series.

Scenes Featuring Maria

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Alcoa Theatre

1957-1960

Alcoa Theatre was an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1957 through 1960. Alternative titles under which the series was broadcast include Turn of Fate. Alcoa Theatre was syndicated together with Goodyear Theatre as Award Theater.

The series featured a number of veteran and emerging actors over the years, including Jack Lemmon, Cliff Robertson, John Cassavetes, Brandon deWilde, Cornel Wilde, Agnes Moorehead, Jack Carson, Walter Slezak and Gary Merrill.

Episodes

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Don’t Say Sweetie Cause She’s Bitter

Minneapolis Morning Tribune, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, May 20th, 1959

Mike Connolly

Maria is mentioned in a quick blurb as part of a Hollywood gossip column that does a run-down of various bits of more or less newsworthy items. In the case of Maria it mentions her playing a Japanese role in Alcoa Theatre‘s “Medals for Harry”. A very similar blurb had run a couple of weeks earlier in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

20 May 1959, Wed Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Newspapers.com

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Out Of Type Casting Rut

Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, May 8th, 1959

(Unknown Author)

A brief blurb mentioned Maria playing her first Japanese role in Alcoa Theatre‘s “Medal For Harry” and quotes her as being happy about being out of a type-casting rut. A very similar blurb ran in the Minneapolis Star Tribune a couple of weeks later on May 20th.

Out Of Type Casting RutOut Of Type Casting Rut 08 May 1959, Fri The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Newspapers.com

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Out of a Type-Casting Rut

Various Papers, May, 1959

by Mike Connolly

Maria is mentioned in a quick blurb as part of a Hollywood gossip column that does a run-down of various bits of more or less newsworthy items. In the case of Maria it mentions her playing a Japanese role in Alcoa Theatre‘s “Medals for Harry” and her being happy to be out of a type-casting rut.

Maria McClay