Edie Adams as Self
Episodes 5
Scheduled guests: --Tony Martin (singer) --Nat King Cole --Edie Adams (singer) --The Lovers (singing group) --Will Jordan (comedian) --Ricky Layne (ventriloquist with his dummy Velvel)
--The Linda Lynch Trio (dancers) --The Rich Township Choir (top high school singing group from Chicago) --Nino Nanni (listed as a ""keyboard jester"")
Read MoreScheduled guests: --Nat King Cole --A filmed segment with Bob Hope --Edie Adams (singer) --Jack Carter (comedian) --Carol Haney (dancer) --Rickie Layne (ventriloquist with his dummy Velvel) --Joey Clay (rock ‘n' roll singer) --The Half Brothers (jugglers)
--On film: ""A Short Vision"" - described as ""an animated fantasy which depicts abstractly the effects of the H-bomb.""
Read MoreSonny James / Fess Parker / Ivory Joe Hunter
Singers / musicians: --Sonny James - ""Young Love"" --Ivory Joe Hunter (at piano) - ""Since I Met You"" --Betty Johnson - ""I Dreamed"" (or ""I Dream) --Fess Parker (with guitar) - ""Wringle Wrangle""
--The Tarriers - ""The Banana Boat Song"" --Russell Arms - ""Cinco Robles"" --Jill Corey - ""I Love My Baby"" --Marion Marlowe - ""True Love"" --Mattiwilda Dobbs (Metropolitan Opera star) - ""Summertime"" Other guests: --Ben Blue (pantomime act) - (1) Cafe sketch with ""live"" lobsters (2) quick change sketch portrait comes to life --Three Markays (3-man acrobatic team, contortionists do routine on parallel bars) --On film: Ed at annual banquet for the Indianapolis 500 auto race. --Women modeling gowns from past inaugurations. Models: Jo Sullivan, Marion Marlowe, Gena Rowlands, Gretchen Wildler, Julia Mead, Edith Adams, Jill Corey. --Audience bows: Edward Mulhare (actor); John Cassevetes
Read Morescheduled: Robert Mitchum; Ames Brothers; Edie Adams
Scheduled guests: --Robert Mitchum (actor) - turns singer & dancer as he performs a medley of calpyso tunes that he recently recorded.
--Beatrice Lillie and Billy De Wolfe - perform scenes from the Broadway musical ""The Ziegfeld Follies,"" including dancing numbers led by Harold Lang and Helen Wood.
--Edie Adams (actress, then appearing on Broadway in ""Li'l Abner"") - does impressions of Shirley Temple, Marlene Dietrich, Jeanette MacDonald, Ruby Keeler and Marilyn Monroe.
--The Ames Brothers (singing quartet) - sing a medley of Irish songs and are joined by Mitchum in one tune. --Connie Towers (singer) --Robert Briscoe (Lord Mayor of Dublin) --Joe, Jack and Joanie (acrobatic trio)
Read Morescheduled: Wayne and Shuster; Jimmie Rodgers; Edie Adams
Scheduled guests: --Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster (guest hosts, taking over while Ed was at the World's Fair in Brussels)
--Edie Adams (singer-comedian) --Jimmie Rodgers (singer) - ""Secretly"" --Doretta Morrow (singer) --Sallie Blair (singer) --Mario Del Monaco (singer) --Jeanmarie and Roland Petit (French ballet stars) --The Amin Brothers (Egyptian novelty act)
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