Narrator Rudy Vallee announces that he knows we are a "real high class audience," thus he has "some swell story to tell."...
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1968
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Edward G. Robinson narrates this TV documentary, which originally appeared March 18, 1962 as part of the weekly anthology...
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1962
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Having bounced around all three major networks, the prestigious fine-arts anthology Omnibus briefly settled at NBC for this...
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1958
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Returning to his musical comedy revue roots, Max Liebman, the guiding force behind the classic TV variety series...
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1956
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This musical is a contemporary version of Aristophanes' ancient play Lysistrata. Instead of Greece, this play is centered in...
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Job McClure
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1955
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This musical production from the early days of TV charts the life and times of composer Johann Strauss, Jr. Special...
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1955
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This release offers an installment in the Colgate Comedy Hour that originally aired on February 28, 1954. Taking place on a...
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1954
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Barney McGorkle
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1954
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Joe Pulaski
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1951
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1950
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Milton Berle was enjoying the first flush of his television success when his musical-comedy movie vehicle Always Leave Them...
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Eddie Egan
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1949
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MGM's musical extravaganza Meet the People top-bills two future powerful TV executives: Dick Powell and Lucille Ball. Ball...
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The Commander
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1944
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How could anyone resist a 1940s film starring Bert Lahr, June Havoc, Buddy Ebsen and Patsy Kelly-even a film as relentlessly...
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Chow Brewster
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1942
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This musical -- a concoction of comedy, songs, dancing, and war-time patriotism mixed together with a spy spoof plot -- opens...
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1942
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The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine...
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The Cowardly Lion
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1939
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The old David Belasco theatrical warhorse Zaza, which starred Mrs. Leslie Carter way back in 1899, had already been filmed by...
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Songwriter, Cascart
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1939
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In this musical comedy of errors, David Brassard, Sr. (William Collier, Sr.) has his heart stolen from him by a conniving,...
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Barney Barnaby
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1938
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Just Around the Corner is the film in which little Shirley Temple ends the Depression all by herself! The story starts...
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1938
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Before sitting down to watch Love and Hisses, it's important to know that columnist Walter Winchell and bandleader...
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Sugar Boles
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1937
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Merry-Go-Round of 1938 was the first (and last) of a proposed series of films spotlighting top Broadway talent. Three...
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Bert
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1937
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This collection of three comedy shorts includes Bridal Bail (1934), educational No More West (1934) with Bert Lahr and...
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1936
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1933
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Flying High was a nonsensical Broadway musical hit of 1930 starring Bert Lahr. The film version, made one year later by MGM,...
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Rusty
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1931
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