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9/11/49Scheduled guests:
--Alan Dale
--Maggie Teyte (opera singer, soprano)
--Buddy Lester (stand-up comedian) -
9/4/49Scheduled guests: --Jack Williams (actor) --Annabelle Hill (actress, from Broadway's "Kiss Me, Kate") --Jose Toledano (Flamenco artist) --Sebastian Castros --Julio Toledo (dancer) -
8/28/49Scheduled guests: --Toni Arden (singer) --Sunny Skylar (composer) --Harold Lang --Billy Vine (comedian) --Les Catrons -
8/21/49Scheduled guests: --Bill Tabbert --Phil Foster (stand-up comedian) --Lee Marks --Marie Gambarelli (dancer) -
8/14/49Scheduled guests: --Hazel Scott (singer) --Sonny Tufts (actor) -
Scheduled guests:
--Eddie Albert (guest host)
--George Connolly
--The Margo, Paul and Paulette Trio -
7/31/49Scheduled guests:
--Edward Everett Horton (stage & screen comedian) - appearing as guest host.
--David Powell
--The Marino Sisters
--The Colstons -
7/24/49Scheduled guests:
--Buddy Rogers (guest host)
--Duke Alden
--Sunny Howard
--The Matusek Academy Accordion Aces Band (17 piece band, from the Chicago area, comprised of 17 teenage boys and girls) -
7/17/49Scheduled guests: --Cab Calloway --Jackie Robinson (of the Brooklyn Dodgers) --Stan Musial (of the St. Louis Cardinals) -
Guests: --Joan Merrill - "Summertime," "How Did He Look" and "Everywhere I Go" --Bill Tabbert - "Younger Than Springtime" (from "South Pacific") & "Make Believe" --Illinois Jacquet (saxophone player) - plays "Flying Home" & "Blues Part Two" --Singing Dodgers (members of the Brooklyn Dodgers): Ralph Branca, Carl Furillo, Erv Palica & Ray Bloch. Ed talks with Ralph Branca. --Jay Jason (stand-up comedy: Army humor, sings "Inka Dinka Doo" (imitating Durante), "Ghost Riders In the Sky" & "On The Road To Mandalay" --The Rimmer Sisters (tap dance routine) --The Noble Trio (acrobats) - 2 men and a woman on parallel bars.Audience bows: 42nd Rainbow Division Veterans; Bobby Riggsmoreless
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7/3/49Scheduled guests: --Toni Harper (singer) --Tony Lavelli (basketball star, accordion player) -
6/26/49Sarah Vaughan - "Sunday Dream" & "Bianca"Other guests: --Elaine Street (does Street Vendor routine & sings parodies) --Virginia Lee (comic acrobatics) --Christine & Moll (tap dancing couple) --Harold & Lola - "The Cobra Dance" ballet
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6/19/49First Anniversary Show with scheduled guests:
--Richard Rodgers
--Juanita Hall (singer & actress, from Broadway's "South Pacific")
--Harvey Stone -
6/12/49Scheduled guests: --Toni Harper (singer) --Sam Levenson -
6/5/49Scheduled guests: --Harold Lloyd (silent-film comedian) --Vincent Richards -
5/29/49Scheduled guests:
--Zero Mostel (comedian)
--Kitty Kallen (singer)
--Gene Sarazen (golf pro) -
5/22/49Scheduled guests:
--Paul Winchell (ventriloquist)
--Jane Kean
--Ladd Lyon
--Claude Harmon (golf pro, winner of the 1948 Masters tournament)
--Craig Wood (golf pro) -
5/15/49Scheduled guests:
--Jarmila Novotna (opera soprano)
--Sigmund Romberg (Broadway composer) -
5/8/49Scheduled guest: --Charles Laughton --Nellie Lutcher -
5/1/49Scheduled guests: --Harvey Stone --Al Schacht (comedian & former Major League pitcher) --Gill Dorian -
4/24/49Scheduled guests: --Joey Adams (comedian) --Pat Rooney --Yvonne Adair (Broadway actress) -
4/17/49Scheduled guests: --Jack Leonard --Gali Gali (magician) --The Notre Dame Singers -
4/10/49Scheduled guests: --Patricia Morison (actress) --Gali Gali (magician) -
4/3/49Scheduled guests:
--John Carradine (actor)
--Kirk Douglas (actor)
--Kitty Kallen (singer)
--The Costello Twins -
Scheduled guests:
--The Nat King Cole Trio
--Larry Storch (comedian-impressionist)
--Hal LeRoy (Broadway tap dancer)
--The DeMarco Sisters
--Paul Gerritts (roller-skating comedian) -
3/20/49Scheduled guests:
--Connie Haines (singer)
--Roll and Tap (dancers) (another source listed this act as Rolland Tap) -
3/13/49Scheduled guests:
--Humphrey Bogart (actor)
--Anne Jeffreys (actress & singer)
--Buddy Baer (actor & heavyweight boxer) -
3/6/49Scheduled guest: --Charles Laughton (actor) Other guests unknown -
2/27/49Guests: --Larry Storch (comedian) - does a Cary Grant impression and plays a French performer In British Colonial army skit. --Patricia Wymour - sings & tap dances to "No Time" (from "All For Love") --Patricia Morison - "So In Love With You" & "Wunderbar" (from "Kiss Me Kate") --Don Cummings (entertainer-comedian) - stand-up routine covering cigarettes, rope spoofs, Dugan Vodka, girdle commercial, drunk bit. At the end of the act, Ed gives him a mop to clean-up. --Fred Marc & Ernest Schon (violinist & pianist) --Audience bows: Vincent Empelliteri (acting mayor of NYC); Maurice Stolof; General Efram Jeffy --Cynthia Raglin (9-year-old Broadway singer) - on-stage bow, sings "The Sunny Side Of The Street" --Miguelito Valdez - sings "Babaloo," talks with Ed, then plays conga drum while singing "Cumbanchero" (with the June Taylor Dancers on stage). --Audience bow: Fruchio Burko (9-year-old symphony conductor)moreless -
2/20/49Scheduled guests: --Faye Emerson (actress & TV personality) --Donald Richards (Broadway actor) -
2/13/49Scheduled guests:
--Rudy Vallee (singer) --Diana Barrymore (actress) --Jean Carroll -
2/6/49Guests:
--Marybeth Olds (British dancer-contortionist) - acrobatic novelty act
--Viola Essen and Johnny Coy (dancers) - tap dance vs. ballet dance contest.
--Pat Henning (comedian) - stand up routine with celebrity imitations.
--Luise Rainer (actress) talks about her career, then performs a scene from her 1935 film "Escapade."
--Jackie Gleason does a dramatic movie scene.
Showcase Segment: 218 Years of Tin Pan Alley:
--William J. McKenna (songwriter) - "Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly"
--W.C. Handy performs "St. Louis Blues"
--Harry Armstrong sings "Sweet Adeline"
--Cameo: Rudy Vallee (appears backstage)moreless -
1/30/49Scheduled guests:
--Tony Martin (singer-actor)
--Carol Bruce (singer-actress) -
1/23/49Guests:
--Jule Stein & Sammy Cahn (composer & lyricist) - Sammy sings a medley of hits while Jule plays "I'll Walk Alone," "It's Been A Long, Long Time," "It's Magic," & "Papa, Won't You Dance With Me"
--The Holloway Sisters (two sisters tap dance with umbrellas)
--Byron Palmer & Doretta Morrow - "My Darling" (from "Where's Charlie")
--Dean Murphy (stand-up comedian) - does Hildegard impressions
--Gloria Hamilton, Anne Gilkey, Gene Nelson, Bob Dixon - "When Someone You Love, Loves You" (production number from "Lend Me An Ear")
--Al Kelly (comedian, in character as Finster O'Finster)
--Marita & Manuel Viera (trained monkey act)
Audience bows: Lt. General Robert Richardson, Lon Mcallister, Skitch Henderson, Forrest Tuckermoreless -
1/16/49Scheduled guests:
--Rudy Vallee (singer)
--Nanette Fabray (singer, actress)
--Harvey Stone (comedian) -
1/9/49Scheduled guest: --Luise Rainer (actress) Other guests unknown -
1/2/49Guests:
--Betty Jane Smith (dancer from the Copa Cabana) - performs a tap dance routine and talks with Ed.
--Irv Harmon (comedian) - phone booth routine
--Bobby Whaling and Yvette (comedic bicycle act)
--Audience bow: George M. Cohan Jr. (son of George M. Cohan)
--Audience bow: Johnny Farrell (former US Open Golf champion)
--Audience bow: Jersey Woe Wolcott (heavy weight champion)
--Rudy Vallee (singer-actor in his TV debut) - talks with Ed (approx. 10 minute interview)
--Rudy Vallee - sings "Alouette" (with audience sing-a-long) and sings a medley: "Vagabond Lover," "If You Were the Only Girl in the World and I Were the Only Boy" and "Many Coeds"
--Audience bows: Arthur Murray; Sydney Blackburn (actor)
--Pat C. Flick (comedian) - heckles Ed from the audience, then hassles lady sitting next to him.
--The Ravens (rhythm & blues quartet) - "My Sugar is So Refined"moreless -
12/26/48No details available. -
12/19/48No details available. -
12/12/48Guests: --Nanette Fabray - "Green Up Time" (from Fabray's Broadway play "Love Life") and "Papa Won't You Dance With Me" (from the film "High Button Shoes"). The second song might include Fabray dancing with Ed Sullivan.
--Bunny Briggs (tap dancer) - does a dance routine --Nellie Lutcher (singer & piano player known as the "Hurry On Down" gal) - "Fine Brown Frame" & "You Better Watch Yourself Bub" --Pat C. Flick (Ed's favorite balcony heckler) - interupts Ed.
--Hal Raywin (concert violinist) - "Romanian Rhapsody" (with the June Taylor Dancers doing a Romanian folk dance)
--Audience bows: George White, Mary Stewart, Ken Kling --The Temperton Family with Hope Emerson - performs a skit with Hope Emerson as the family maid. --Delanoff and The Rayes Sisters (magic & "black art" dance routine)- act with people dressed partly in black which gives the illusion of floating heads and headless bodies. Ed makes an appearance by "floating" at the end of the act. --Audience bow: Ezra Charles (boxer) --McCarthy & Farrell (comedy team) - duo imitates other entertainers in radio show sketch. They sing "Inka Dinka Do" & "Spaniard Who Blighted My Life" --Dance production number with the Toastettes. Ed dances with Nanette Fabray.
--Audience bows: Al Shact & Harry Ravelmoreless -
12/5/48No details available. -
11/28/48Guests: --Olsen and Joy (or Olson & Joy) - duo performs a comic song-and-dance routine. --Ray Morgan (comedian) - routine, pretends to interview a singer. --Greg and Lober (dance team) --Margaret Phelan (operatic singer) --Block and Sully (dancers Jesse Block and Eva Sully Block) --Virginia Austin (puppeteer and puppet designer) - does a musical puppet show --Baltimore Colts Majorettes - routine with dancing and baton twirling. --Eddie Garr (comedian) - stand-up routine Cameos/audience bows: Jack LaRue, Temple Texas, Nicholas Joy, and Billy Hildebrand. The Mayor of Baltimore (probably Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro, Jr.) presents Ed with a key to the city.moreless -
11/21/48No details available. -
11/14/48Scheduled guests include Dewey Marchand. -
11/7/48Scheduled guests (listed in Philadelphia TV Digest): --Dick Buckley --Monica Lewis --Rachel & Bebe --The Dunhills -
10/31/48The scheduled guests include Dorothy Sarnoff. -
10/24/48The scheduled guests were Benny Goodman (jazz musician and band leader); The Ink Spots (vocal group): and Franklin & Moore. -
10/17/48Scheduled guests include Francis Faye (singer); Doc Marcus; and Les Compagnons (singing group Les Compagnons De La Chanson). -
10/10/48The scheduled guests included Joey Adams (comedian); Mark Plant; Bill Robinson (dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson); and Tony Canzoneri (former lightweight boxing champion). -
10/3/48Scheduled guests include Betty Reilly (singer); Les Compagnons (singing group, aka Les Compagnons De La Chanson). -
9/26/48Guests:
--Al Bernie (comedian)
--Bob Hope (cameo appearance) -
9/19/48Scheduled guests include Louis Jordan (Jazz/R&B musician, bandleader); Benny Rubin (movie and radio comedian). -
9/12/48Scheduled guests include Sarah Vaughan (singer); Gali-Gali (Egyptian magician). -
9/5/48Scheduled guests include Noro Morales (rhumba and mambo musician, band leader) and Patricia Bright (actress & singer). -
8/29/48Scheduled guests include:
Count Basie
Lon Chaney, Jr. -
8/22/48Scheduled guests include:
Jan August
The Mayo Brothers -
Guests include:
Irving Berlin
Additional guests (scheduled to appear):
Russ Morgan
Vincent Lopez
Nancy Donovan -
Guests:
--Peggy Lee
--The De Marco Sisters
--Harry Hershfield
--Jody Gilbert (tap dancer)
--Al Kelly
--Jerry Bergen
--Jimmy Smith (xylophone player)
Additional guests (scheduled to appear):
Willie and Eugene Howard -
8/1/48Scheduled guests include:
Cab Calloway -
7/25/48No details available. -
7/18/48No details available. -
7/11/48Scheduled guests include Lena Horne (singer); Joey Adams (comedian); Joe Howard (vaudeville veteran); and Tony Canzoneri (former lightweight boxing champion). -
7/4/48The scheduled guests included Joe DiMaggio, Bill Robinson, and Miles. -
6/27/48The guests were Irving Berlin; The Ink Spots (vocal group); Peter Lind Hayes (Vaudeville entertainer); Paul Winchell (ventriloquist); Mary Raye and Naldi (dancers); Nan Wynn (singer). Also appearing were a singing patrolman and troupe of dancers (probably The Toastettes). -
6/20/48Guests (compiled from various sources):
--Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis (comedy team)
--Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Broadway legends)
--Eugene List (concert pianist)
--John Kokoman (a singing New York fireman)
--Kathryn Lee (a ballerina)
--Monica Lewis (singer)
--Lee Goodman and Jim Kirkwood (comedy team)
--Ruby Goldstein (the referee of the upcoming Louis-Wolcott boxing match)
--The Toastettes (6 female dancers recruited from the June Taylor Dancers)moreless
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