Queen of the Stardust Ballroom is an American

United States

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 television movie

Television movie

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 directed by Sam O'Steen

Sam O'Steen

Samuel Alexander O'Steen was an American film editor and director. He had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Mike Nichols, with whom he edited twelve films between 1966 and 1994...

 and produced by Roger Gimbel

Roger Gimbel

Roger Gimbel was an American television producer who specialized in television movies. Many of Gimbel's television films dealt with real-life events, including Chernobyl: The Final Warning, S.O.S. Titanic, The Amazing Howard Hughes and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman...

. It was broadcast by CBS on February 13, 1975. Maureen Stapleton

Maureen Stapleton

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, Charles Durning

Charles Durning

Charles Durning is an American actor. With appearances in over 100 films, Durning's memorable roles include police officers in the Oscar-winning The Sting and crime drama Dog Day Afternoon , along with the comedies Tootsie, To Be Or Not To Be and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the last two...

, and Charlotte Rae

Charlotte Rae

Charlotte Rae is a prolific American character actress of stage, comedienne, singer and dancer, who in her six decades of television is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life...

 were nominated for an Emmy Award

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 for their performances.

The teleplay

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 by Jerome Kaas focuses on a lonely widow and a postal worker who discover late-in-life romance when they meet at the local dance hall.

O'Steen

Sam O'Steen

Samuel Alexander O'Steen was an American film editor and director. He had an extended, notable collaboration with the director Mike Nichols, with whom he edited twelve films between 1966 and 1994...

 won the Directors Guild of America

Directors Guild of America

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 award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Specials, and the Writers Guild of America

Writers Guild of America

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 honored Kaas for his original teleplay. The program received two Emmys, for Outstanding Achievement in Choreography and Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for a Special.

The program, which has been released in both VHS

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 and DVD

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 formats, served as the basis for the 1978 Broadway

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 musical Ballroom

Ballroom (musical)

Ballroom is a musical with a book by Jerome Kass and music by Billy Goldenberg and lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman.Based on Kass' teleplay for the 1975 Emmy Award-winning television drama Queen of the Stardust Ballroom, the plot focuses on lonely widow Bea Asher, who becomes romantically...

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