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To: Vision

Is The Big Show the Tallulah Bankhead show?

If so, looks pretty good:

“Seventh Show of the Series
Broadcasting from Los Angeles, Tallulah attempts to hold her own as she matches wits with comedians Bob Hope, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis. She also lends her dramatic talents to an excerpt from Claire Boothe Luce’s “The Women” (parodied by Hope, Martin & Lewis as “The Fellers”) alongside Deborah Kerr (a last-minute replacement for Rosalind Russell) and Dorothy McGuire. Phil Harris, whose sitcom with wife Alice Faye followed “The Big Show, on NBC, appears in a cameo, and Bing Crosby is heard on one of the Chesterfield commercials. The performers are Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong (“Ain’t Misbehavin’”), Bob Hope, Deborah Kerr, Frankie Laine (“I’m Gonna Live Till I Die”), Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin (“La Vie en Rose”), Dorothy McGuire, announcer Jimmy Wallington, Meredith Willson and his Orchestra and Chorus (“Orange Colored Sky”), and Tallulah Bankhead.
Sunday, December 17, 1950 – 90:00 – NBC, sponsored by Ford, Anacin, Chesterfield Cigarettes, and RCA Victor”


7 posted on 03/12/2017 3:17:35 PM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: iowamark

It is and it’s fantastic. When you have time listen to 2/25/51...and be sure to listen to the very end. It’s one of the most beautiful moments in radio IMO.


8 posted on 03/12/2017 3:26:10 PM PDT by Vision (Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid - Reagan)
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