General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein

General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein
Directed by Ralph Levy
Starring Mary Martin
Groucho Marx
Jack Benny
John Raitt
Gordon MacRae
Florence Henderson
Ed Sullivan
Edgar Bergen
Ezio Pinza
Yul Brynner
Janice Rule
Patricia Morison
Music by Richard Rodgers
Oscar Hammerstein
Country of origin United States
Production
Producer(s) Ralph Levy
Running time 120 mins.
Release
Original network DuMont
CBS
NBC
ABC
Picture format Black-and-white
Audio format Monaural

General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein is a two-hour TV special broadcast live on March 28, 1954, on all four major TV networks of the time, DuMont, CBS, NBC, and ABC.

The special was hosted by Groucho Marx, Mary Martin, Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan, and Edgar Bergen with his puppet Charlie McCarthy.

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Bibliography

  • David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004) ISBN 1-59213-245-6
  • Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980) ISBN 0-14-024916-8
  • Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964) ISBN 0-345-31864-1

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