A Child is Born - Stephen Vincent Benet - World's Great Novels

A Christmas Miracle Play for our times.

A Child Is Born is a poetic Christmas drama in one act by Stephen Vincent Benet. First presented on radio on December 21, 1942, as part of the anthology program Cavalcade of America, the production starred the famous husband-and-wife team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Later, it began to be presented on television, in productions which starred such actors as Gene Lockhart and Fay Bainter.

Largely written in rhyming verse, the play relates the story of the birth of Christ through the eyes of an innkeeper and his wife. The drama was presented on television many times during the Golden Age of Television, on such anthologies as Actors Studio. Lux Video Theatre, General Electric Theater, and Kraft Television Theatre, but has not been seen on American television since 1956

Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and for the short stories "The Devil and Daniel Webster" (1936) and "By the Waters of Babylon" (1937). In 2009, The Library of America selected his story "The King of the Cats" (1929) for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American Fantastic Tales edited by Peter Straub.

Originally Broadcast 12/19/1947

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