Seven Lively Arts
| The Seven Lively Arts | |
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Jason Robards and Maureen Stapleton in "Blast at Centralia #5"
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| Genre | Anthology |
| Directed by |
Mel Ferrer George Roy Hill Sidney Lumet Norm Nowicki |
| Presented by | John Crosby |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 44 mins. |
| Release | |
| Picture format | Black-and-white |
| Audio format | Monaural |
| Original release | November 3, 1957 |
The Seven Lively Arts is an American anthology series that aired on Sunday afternoons in 1957 on CBS television. The series was executive produced by John Houseman, and hosted by New York Herald Tribune critic John Crosby. The title was taken from the influential book of the same name written by the cultural critic Gilbert Seldes, in which he argued that the low arts (comics, vaudeville) deserved as much critical attention as the high arts (opera, literature).
The eleven programs produced were—not in order:
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