General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein | |
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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 | Ralph Levy |
Running time | 120 mins. |
Original release | |
Network | DuMont CBS NBC ABC |
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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