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10 unusual facts about Hallmark Hall of Fame


Anna Mae Routledge

Routledge was also in Hallmark Hall of Fame's A Dog Named Christmas, starring Bruce Greenwood, and has been in episodes of Life Unexpected, Smallville, Supernatural and Psych.

Barrie Stavis

His play, Lamp at Midnight, about Galileo's struggle with the Catholic Church to get his ideas accepted, was performed and televised on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1966.

Boys Next Door

The Boys Next Door (1996 film), an American television movie starring Nathan Lane in the Hallmark Hall of Fame

Gary A. Marple

In 2009, after the publication of several more books, including one titled Front of the Class that led to a Hallmark Hall of Fame production based on it, Marple and Rutter agreed to sell V&B to Quick Publishing, a small press in St. Louis, Missouri.

International Church of the Foursquare Gospel

McPherson's celebrity status continued after her death, with biopics such as the 1976 Hallmark Hall of Fame drama The Disappearance of Aimee depicting her life, as well as the 2006 independent film Aimee Semple McPherson which particularly focused on her month-long disappearance in May–June 1926 and the legal controversy that followed.

Libby Hathorn

Hallmark Hall of Fame has made a movie of her best-selling young adult novel, Thunderwith, re-titled The Echo of Thunder.

Sharon Wohlmuth

Her photographs were featured in the highly successful Hallmark Hall of Fame "To Us" national television advertising campaigns for several years.

Soon It's Gonna Rain

In the Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcast on October 18, 1964, the song was performed by John Davidson and Susan Watson.

Stacey Bess

Stacey Bess is an author and educator, best known for Nobody Don't Love Nobody, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie in 2011 called "Beyond the Blackboard."

Terry Kay

Perhaps his most well-known book is To Dance with the White Dog, which was made into a Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie starring Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy.


Albert McCleery

In 1953, McCleery directed the first two-hour television production of Hamlet ever shown on U.S. television, for the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Back When We Were Grownups

Susanna Styron adapted the novel for a CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame production that first aired on November 21, 2004.

Leueen MacGrath

Having settled in the United States following her marriage to Kaufman, MacGrath appeared in a number of American anthology television series popular in the 1950s, including The Philco Television Playhouse, Studio One, Lux Video Theatre, The United States Steel Hour, The Alcoa Hour, and Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Martha Washington

In 1955, the actress Karen Sharpe played Custis in the NBC television film, The Courtship of George Washington and Martha Custis, a production of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

Melina Kanakaredes

Her other television credits include NYPD Blue (in a recurring role as reporter Benita Alden during that show's second season), Due South, Oz, The Practice, MTV's The Ben Stiller Show, and a Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of the Anne Tyler novel Saint Maybe.

Millard Lampell

In 1966, he was awarded an Emmy for his teleplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame drama Eagle in a Cage.

Rachel Simon

It was also adapted for a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie, also titled Riding The Bus With My Sister, which originally aired on CBS on May 1, 2005, where it was watched by fifteen million viewers.

Richard Friedenberg

He wrote the screenplay for A River Runs Through It (1992), starring Brad Pitt, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, and the screenplay for the Hallmark Hall of Fame television film Promise (1986), starring James Garner and James Woods, for which he won an Emmy Award.

The Disappearance of Aimee

It was directed by Anthony Harvey for Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions.

The Teahouse of the August Moon

The Teahouse of the August Moon (TV film), a 1962 televised version of the play; directed by George Schaefer; a part of the anthology television series Hallmark Hall of Fame (see List of Hallmark Hall of Fame episodes)

The Winter of Our Discontent

The novel was made into a television movie in the Hallmark Hall of Fame during 1983, featuring Donald Sutherland, Teri Garr, and Tuesday Weld.