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Summary This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars. View more details

1950
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The Colgate Comedy Hour

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Eddie Cantor Al Goodman

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Genres : Comedy Romance

Release date : Sep 9, 1950

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Colgate-Palmolive-Peet

Summary This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Romance

Release date : Sep 9, 1950

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Filming locations : Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : National Broadcasting Company (NBC) Colgate-Palmolive-Peet

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Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin in The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

Norman Lear at an event for The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

Teresa Brewer in The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

Jane Morgan in The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

Julie Wilson in The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

Bobby Clark in The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

Bob Manning in The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)

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Episode 1 • Sep 09, 1950

Revenge with Music with Eddie Cantor

Actor/dancer Tommy Wonder, opera soprano Yma Sumac, dancer Danny Daniels, Yiddish theatre star Joseph Buloff, Lew Hearn, Robert Gari, Jack Albertson, the ballet team of Val Buttingnol and Joy Williams, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra.

Episode 2 • Sep 16, 1950

Let's Face It with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests blonde bombshell Marilyn Maxwell, comic dancers Barr and Estes, J.C.McCord, Frank Gallop, Jean Carson, William McCutheon, vocal group The Honeydreamers, with Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Dean and Jerry disrupt a formal party, and do a stand-up as a man and woman reconciling after an argument. Maxwell performs "I Love the Guys" with dancers. Dean, a failing movie theater owner, forces a kid (played by Jerry) to buy a ticket. Backstage, Martin has a luxurious dressing room while Lewis has a janitor's closet. Dean sings "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter," "Frankie and Johnny," and "La Vie en Rose."

Episode 3 • Sep 23, 1950

Host: Fred Allen; Guests: Monty Woolley, Rise Stevens, Peter Donald

Fred Allen hosts. His guests include actors Monte Woolley and Peter Donald, opera star Rise Stevens, ballet stars Sono Osato, Hugh Laing and Zachary Solov, Tony award winner David Burns, Fred Allen's radio co-horts Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Parker Fennelly (supplying voices in a puppet version of "Allen's ALley") with Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Stevens joins Allen for a "Middle-town U.S.A." version of "Carmen." Wooley and Allen do a department store sketch. Burns follows Allen around and pre-tests his material for him.

Episode 4 • Sep 30, 1950

Host: Bobby Clark; Guests: Joan Blondell, Sigmund Romberg

Bobby Clark hosts with songwriter Sig Romberg and actress Joan Blondell guesting. Clark plays a judge with a pea-shooter, and entertains snooty matrons at a Boston tea party. Romberg does a medley of songs he's composed.

Episode 5 • Oct 07, 1950

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Eddie Cantor makes a second appearance as the Colgate show host and performs a skit playing 'Maxie the Taxi' and later sings 'Dinah'.

Episode 6 • Oct 14, 1950

Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Kitty Kallen; The Skylarks; Mayor Ralph Villani of Newark, N.J.; Mayor Walter Sterling of Steubenville, Ohio, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis serve as the Colgate show's hosts for a second time and invite the mayors of their hometowns to appear on the show.

Episode 7 • Oct 21, 1950

Host: Fred Allen; Guests: Portland Hoffa, Ella Logan, Parker Fennelly. Peter Donald, dancers Anthony, Allyn & Hodges; Mort & Art Havel

For Fred Allen's second time hosting the Colgate program, his guests include part of his regular radio program cast Peter Donald, Parker Fennelly and Portland Hoffa (Allen's wife). Other guests include the dancers Anthony, Allyn and Hodges and comedians Mort and Art Havel. Parker Fennelley plays his radio character Titus Moody in a sketch. Logan sings "Sunny Side of the Street" and joins Allen in a production take-off on "Brigadoon".

Episode 8 • Oct 28, 1950

Host: Bobby Clark; Guests: Mel Allen, Frances Langford, Gussie Moran, The Peiro Brothers, The Albins

Comedian Bobby Clark hosts "Michael Todd's Revue" sponsored by Frigidaire. Guests are singer Frances Langford, baseball announcer Mel Allen, tennis player Gussie Moran, Argentinian jugglers Atilio and Hector (The Peiro Brothers), and comedy act The Albins. Clark is judge in a courtroom sketch with Moran complaining someone had stolen her lacy underwear. Clark performs a comedy rendition of the poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew." A stream of crazies keeps Clark from getting sleep in a hospital.

Episode 9 • Nov 04, 1950

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Ida Cantor, Charlie Cantor, Robert Gari, Fred & Sledge, Lesli Scott, Bil & Cora Baird Marionettes, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Eddie Cantor hosts with guests actor Robert Gari, comedian Charlie Cantor (no relation), dancers Fred and Sledge, Leslie Scott, Bil and Cora Baird's Marionettes, show's choreographer Dick Barstow, his wife Ida Cantor, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. Cantor plays cab driver "Maxie the Taxi." Eddie and Charlie are in drag as a couple of housewives at a laundromat. Scott sings "Basin Street Blues" with Fred and Sledge dancing. Cantor is joined by his wife, Ida, in a tribute to their recently deceased friend Al Jolson; Gari performs as Jolson singing "Swanee".

Episode 10 • Nov 11, 1950

Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Kitty Kallen, Leonard Barr, Sammy Petrillo, Joyce Randolph, De May & Moore, The Skylarks, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis host with guests Kitty Kallen, actress Joyce Randoph, comic dancers Leonard Barr and Virginia Estes, comic actor (and Jerry Lewis impersonator) Sammy Petrillo, ballroom dancers De May and Moore, singers The Skylarks, and Dick Stabile and his Orchestra. Kitty Kallen sings "Please Take Me Home" and "I Can't Give You Anything But Love". In a babysitting sketch, Joyce Randolph plays the mom, Jerry the dad, and Petrillo the baby. Another skit involves a dancing school.

Episode 11 • Nov 18, 1950

Host: Fred Allen; Guests: H. Allen Smith, Sheila Bond, Billy Tabbert

Fred Allen hosts with guests humorist/author H. Allen Smith; Tony award winning actress Sheila Bond; and Broadway performer Billy Tabbert.

Episode 12 • Nov 25, 1950

host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Jimmy Wakely, Marilyn Maxwell, The Taylor Maids, the High Hatters, Judy Kelly

Bob Hope hosts this Frigidaire-sponsored episode. Guests are singer Jimmy Wakely, actress Marilyn Maxwell, vocalists The Taylor Maids, dance duo High Hatters, dancer Judy Kelly, Les Brown and his Band of Renown, and pitchman Nelson Case. Performing to an all-military audience, Hope opens with his usual monologue. High Hatters tap dance to "Me and My Shadow". Wakely performs "Lonesome Train" and duets with Hope on "Tumbling Tumbleweeds". In comedy sketches, Hope plays a show-off test pilot. He and Maxwell, as Mata Hari, do a spy skit featuring Hitler and Stalin doubles. The two duet on "Darn It, Baby, That's Love". Taylor Maids sing "Orange Colored Sky". Les Brown's band plays "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm".

Episode 13 • Dec 02, 1950

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Joe Bushkin, Jack Albertson, Dick Van Patten, Connie Sawyer, June Keegan, Les Zoris, The Amadis

Eddie Cantor hosts with guests singer June Keegan, pianist Joe Bushkin, actors Jack Albertson, Dick Van Patten and Connie Sawyer, teeter-board acrobats The Armandis, and dancers Les Zoris (Robert Gross and Claudine Baudin). Sawyer and Cantor stumble around as a near-sighted couple. Cantor is joined by Albertson and Van Patten in a "Maxi the Taxi" sketch. Cantor is accompanied by Bushkin on "Ballin' the Jack" and "Dust Off That Old Piano". The finale, based on "Babes in Toyland," features Keegan singing a holiday tune.

Episode 14 • Dec 09, 1950

'Tickets Please!'

Comics/dancers Paul and Grace Hartman host an abbreviated version of their recent Broadway revue. In highlights, Patricia Bright complains that TV has stolen her husband, and Dorothy Jarmac interprets an abstract painting via dance.

Episode 15 • Dec 16, 1950

Host: Fred Allen; Guest: Doc Rockwell, Eileen Farrell, The Christianis, Minerva Pious, Kenny Delmar, Peter Donald, Parker Fennelly, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Fred Allen's guests are comic Doc Rockwell, acrobats the Christianis, opera singer Eileen Farrell, and, from Allen's radio show, Minerva Pious, Kenny Delmar, Peter Donald, and Parker Fennelly. With Al Goodman and his orchestra. Eileen Farrell performs a song from "Madame Butterfly". Sketches include Allen as Santa refusing to make his yearly rounds because of the state of the world. There's a murder trial involving hillbillies in rural Maine. Also, a sketch shows a nine-year-old who's gotten all his knowledge from television.

Episode 16 • Dec 23, 1950

Host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Robert Cummings, Lily Pons, Eleanor Roosevelt

Guests include opera star Lily Pons; Eleanor Roosevelt; Bob Cummings; harpist Robert Maxwell; New York Mayor Vincent Impellitteri; the Boys' Choir from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; and Charles Sandford and his Orchestra.

Episode 17 • Dec 30, 1950

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Danny Thomas, Ed Wynn, Sigmund Romberg

Danny Thomas, Ed Wynn and Sigmund Romberg.

Episode 18 • Jan 06, 1951

Hosts: Abbott & Costello; Guests: Evelyn Knight, Hal Le Roy, Paul Remos & his Toy Boys, Jimmy Ford Four, Art & Mort Havel, Patricia Shea, Valerie de Cadenet, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello host with guests singer Evelyn Knight, dancer Hal Le Roy, specialty act Paul Remos and his Toy Boys, the Jimmy Ford Four, Art and Mort Havel, Patricia Shea, Valerie de Cadenet, and Al Goodman and his Orchestra. The boys do their "Hot dog and Mustard" monologue. As a sailor, Hal Le Roy dances and flirts while on liberty. At a carnival midway, Abbott fleeces Costello in their "Shell Game" routine. The Jimmy Ford Four lip sync comedy to "Cocktails for Two." Lou checks into Dr. Abbott's sanitarium for needed rest; instead he's harassed non-stop by a parade of lunatics.

Episode 19 • Jan 13, 1951

Host: Jerry Lester; Guests: Joan Bennett; Fred Allen; Pat O'Brien; Kukla, Fran & Ollie; the cast of Broadway Open House: Dagmar, David Street, The Mello-Larks, Milton DeLugg, Wayne Howell, Jack Adrian

Jerry Lester hosts with the regular cast of his series "Broadway Open House": David Street, Dagmar, Milton DeLugg, The Mello-Larks, and Wayne Howell. Guests are Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Fred Allen, and actors Pat O'Brien and Joan Bennett. Allen and Lester participate in one of Dagmar's plays. Lester does a take-off on radio giveaway shows.

Episode 20 • Jan 20, 1951

Host: Bobby Clark; Guests: Julie Wilson; Willie West & McGinty; The Maxwells; Bobby Lane & Claire; Jack Mann; Dick Dana; Miriam Wakefield, Tom Jones & his Orchestra

Julie Wilson; Willie, West and McGinty; The Maxwells; Miriam Wakefield; Bobby Lane and Claire; Jack Mann; Dick Dana; and Tom Jones and his Orchestra.

Episode 21 • Jan 27, 1951

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Basil O'Connor, Estelle Sloan, Dave Powell, Lee Fairfax, Joe Marks

Lee Fairfax, Basil O'Connor, Dave Powell, Joe Marks, and Estelle Sloan.

Episode 22 • Feb 03, 1951

Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; guest: Polly Bergen, Bob Fosse, Mary Ann Niles, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

Polly Bergen, Mary Ann Niles, Bob Fosse, and Dick Stabile and his Orchestra.

Episode 23 • Feb 10, 1951

Host: Spike Jones; Guests: The City Slickers, Gale Robbins, "belly bouncer" Laverne Pearson, and a cameo by "Today"s Dave Garroway

The City Slickers, George Rock, Sir Frederick Gas, Freddy and Dick Morgan, Bill King, The Wayne Marlin Trio, Lois Ray, Gale Robbins, and Laverne Pearson Note: There was also a cameo appearance by the Today Show's Dave Garroway.

Episode 24 • Feb 17, 1951

Host: Bobby Clark; Guests: Basil Rathbone, Sarah Churchill, Walter Abel, Mary Boland, Fran Warren, Danny Scholl, Nelson Case

Bobby Clark hosts this episode which was based on a 1946 Broadway show called 'Would-Be Gentleman'. Clark adapted the book for the performance based on a play written by Moliere.

Episode 25 • Feb 24, 1951

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Lena Horne, Jack Albertson, Charlie Cantor, Bil & Cora Baird Marionettes, Landre & Verna, Phil Kramer, Marcia Walter, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.

Episode 26 • Mar 03, 1951

Guest Host: Tony Martin; Guests: Milton Berle, the Andrews Sisters

Episode 27 • Mar 10, 1951

Hosts: Abbott & Costello; guest stars: Lon Chaney, Jr., Jarmilla Novotna

Abbott and Costello recreate some of their most famous skits including "Who's on First?" and "The Haunted Candle" and do a burlesque on the opera "Carmen."

Episode 28 • Mar 17, 1951

Host: Beatrice Lillie; Guests: Rex Harrison, Jean Sablon, Valerie Bettis, Wally Cox, Nelson Case

Episode 29 • Mar 24, 1951

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Episode 30 • Mar 31, 1951

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Eddie Fisher, Evelyn Gould, Joel Grey, William Warfield

Host Eddie Cantor's celebrity guests are singers Eddie Fisher and Marion Colby. Eddie's spotlight on "future stars" features opera singer Evelyn Gould, young singer/dancer Joel Grey, actor/vocalist William Warfield, comics Tony and Eddie who lip sync to records, classical violinist Miche'le Auclair, and dancers Gehrig and Weismuller.

Episode 31 • Apr 07, 1951

Host: Bob Hope; Guests: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Janis Paige, Arthur Treacher, Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Tex & Jinx McCrary, Frank Sinatra, Eddie Cantor, Ed Wynn, Jimm

Host: Bob Hope; guest stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Arthur Treacher, Janis Paige.

Episode 32 • Apr 14, 1951

Host: Tony Martin; Guests: Fred Allen, Celeste Holm, Kathryn Lee, Peanuts Hucko, Richard Loo, Lynn Loring, Art & Mort Havel, Joe Silver, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Episode 33 • Apr 21, 1951

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Anne Jeffreys, Charlie Cantor, Robert Gari, Gehrig & Weismuller, Hal Loman & Joan Fields

Episode 34 • Apr 28, 1951

Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis; Guests: Helen O'Connell, Bob Fosse & Mary Ann Niles, Ladd Lyon, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra

Episode 35 • May 05, 1951

Host: Phil Silvers; Guests: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, Vivian Blaine, Joey Faye, Al Goodman & his Orchestra

Episode 36 • May 12, 1951

Host: Beatrice Lillie; Guests: Victor Moore, Dick Haymes, Wally Cox, Harold Lang, Helen Gallagher

Episode 37 • May 19, 1951

Hosts: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis; Guests: Jane Morgan, Bob Fosse & Mary Ann Niles, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra; Eddie Cantor

Sketches include a hospital bit with Dean as the doctor and Jerry as his intern, and fancy dinner party with Dean and Jerry making a mess of things. Includes special guests Jane Morgan, Bob Fosse and Mary Ann Niles.

Episode 38 • May 26, 1951

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Connie Haines, Charlie Cantor, Joel Grey, Herbert Coleman, Monsieur Crayone, Lou Wills Jr., Joe Silver; cameo by Eddie Fisher

Episode 39 • Jun 02, 1951

Hosts: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis; Guests: The DeMarco Sisters, The Johnny Conrad Dancers, Sonny King, Tommy Farrell, Danny Arnold, Rosette Shaw, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra; cameo by Tony Curtis

Episode 40 • Jun 09, 1951

Host: Jackie Gleason; Guests: Fred Allen, Joan Carroll, Vivian Blaine

Episode 41 • Jun 16, 1951

Host: Eddie Cantor; Guests: Milton Berle, Jack E. Leonard, Phil Foster, Dagmar, Junie Keegan

Episode 42 • Jun 23, 1951

Hosts: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Guest: Janis Paige, The Johnny Conrad Dancers, Danny Arnold, Dick Stabile & his Orchestra; cameos by Tony Martin and Joe Louis

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