Guests (compiled from various sources): --Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis (comedy team) --Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Broadway legends) --Eugene List (concert pianist) --John Kokoman (a singing New York fireman) --Kathryn Lee (a ballerina) --Monica Lewis (singer) --Lee Goodman and Jim Kirkwood (comedy team) --Ruby Goldstein (boxing referee) --The Toastettes (6 female dancers)
Guests: --Peggy Lee --Harry Hershfield
Scheduled guests: --Rudy Vallee (singer) --Nanette Fabray (singer, actress)
Scheduled guests: --Rudy Vallee (singer) --Diana Barrymore (actress)
Guests: --Larry Storch (comedian) - does a Cary Grant impression and plays a French performer In British Colonial army skit. --Patricia Wymour - sings & tap dances to ""No Time"" (from ""All For Love"") --Patricia Morison - ""So In Love With You"" & ""Wunderbar"" (from ""Kiss Me Kate"") --Don Cummings (entertainer-comedian) - stand-up routine covering cigarettes, rope spoofs, Dugan Vodka, girdle commercial, drunk bit. At the end of the act, Ed gives him a mop to clean-up. --Fred Marc & Ernest Schon (violinist & pianist) --Audience bows: Vincent Empelliteri (acting mayor of NYC); Maurice Stolof; General Efram Jeffy --Cynthia Raglin (9-year-old Broadway singer) - on-stage bow, sings ""The Sunny Side Of The Street"" --Miguelito Valdez - sings ""Babaloo,"" talks with Ed, then plays conga drum while singing ""Cumbanchero"" (with the June Taylor Dancers on stage). --Audience bow: Fruchio Burko (9-year-old symphony conductor)
Scheduled guests: --Toni Harper (singer) --Sam Levenson
Scheduled guests: --Richard Rodgers --Juanita Hall (singer & actress, from Broadway's ""South Pacific"") --Harvey Stone
Guests: --Joan Merrill - ""Summertime,"" ""How Did He Look"" and ""Everywhere I Go"" --Bill Tabbert - ""Younger Than Springtime"" (from ""South Pacific"") & ""Make Believe"" --Illinois Jacquet (saxophone player) - plays ""Flying Home"" & ""Blues Part Two"" --Singing Dodgers (members of the Brooklyn Dodgers): Ralph Branca, Carl Furillo, Erv Palica & Ray Bloch. Ed talks with Ralph Branca. --Jay Jason (stand-up comedy: Army humor, sings ""Inka Dinka Doo"" (imitating Durante), ""Ghost Riders In the Sky"" & ""On The Road To Mandalay"" --The Rimmer Sisters (tap dance routine) --The Noble Trio (acrobats) - 2 men and a woman on parallel bars. Audience bows: 42nd Rainbow Division Veterans; Bobby Riggs
Scheduled guests: --Buddy Rogers --Duke Alden --Sunny Howard --The Accordion Aces
Scheduled guests: --Edward Everett Horton --David Powell --The Marino Sisters --The Colstons
Scheduled guests: --Eddie Albert --George Connolly --The Margo, Paul and Paulette Trio
Guests: --Vaughn Monroe sings ""Riders in the Sky"" and ""Singin' My Way Back Home"" --Vaughn Monroe sings ""Dance Ballerina Dance"" (while Raw McGregor dances) --Denise Darcel (French actress, of the film ""Battleground"") sings a song accompanied by composer Al Stone on the piano --Fran Warren sings ""Envy"" (in her television debut) --Leo Fuchs (comedian, his television debut) --Jack Waldron (comedian) --Bobby Winters (juggler) --Renault & Rudy (acrobats)
Scheduled guests: --Billy Eckstine (singer) --Carol Lynne
Scheduled guests: --Frankie Laine --Betty & Jane Kean
Guests (in order of appearance): --Ross and Ross - Novelty Punching Bag Act --Alice Pearce - Actress / Comedienne --Vic Damone - Singer, Two Songs --Joan Holloway - Tap Dancer --Alice Pearce - Comedy Song --The Jaywalkers - Physical Comedy Trio --Dinah Shore - Singer, Two Songs --Vic Damone and Dinah Shore Duet
Scheduled guests: --Vaughn Monroe --Ziggy Talent (singer & saxophonist with Vaughn Monroe's orchestra)
Scheduled guests: --Mel Torme (singer) --Ted Williams --Diana Wynyard (actress)
Guests: --The Ink Spots (vocal group) - ""With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming"" and ""If You Had to Hurt Someone, Why Did It Have to Be Me?"" --Jack E. Leonard (insult comedian) --Don Cornell (singer) - ""It Isn't Fair"" and ""There's No Tomorrow"" --Renald & Rudy (2-man acrobatic/gymnastic team) --Virginia Gorski and Don Liberto (Broadway performers) - talk with Ed. --Audience bows: Sammy Kaye (singer); Irving Fields (Tin Pan Alley composer); Bernard Delfont (British TV/music
Scheduled guests: --Mimi Benzell --Frieda Wing
Scheduled guests: --Rose Murphy --Georges Guetary
Scheduled guests: --Edward Arnold (guest host) --Joey Bishop --Mary Curtis
--Jane Froman (guest host) Scheduled guests: --The Carroll Sisters (singers) --Danny Crystal
Scheduled guests: --Hedy Lamarr --Pat O'Brien --Mimi Benzell
--Jacques Cordon (from France) - unicyclist doing stunts. --Carol Bruce (singer) - ""My Bill"" and ""Blues in the Night"" --Myron Cohen (stand-up comedian) - comedy monologue --Lauritz Melchoir (tenor, of the Metropolitan Opera) - sings ""Longren's Farewell"" and ""Without A Song."" --Tim Herbert and Don Saxon (comedians) - Psychiatrist Routine --Sarah Churchill and John O'Hare perform the balcony scene from ""Romeo and Juliet"" --Reginald Gardiner (British actor & comedian) --Audience bow: Harry Newman (former All-American Michigan quarterback) --Audience bow: Tommy Kerrigan (pro-golfer)
Guests: --Peggy Lee - ""Show Me the Way to Get Out of This World"" & "" La Vie en Rose"" --Dave Barbour (Peggy Lee's husband, accompanying her on guitar) Additional guests (scheduled to appear): --Jerome Hines (opera singer) --Flora Robson (British actress) - performing scenes from her Broadway play ""Black Chiffon""
Scheduled guests: --Margaret Truman (singer, daughter of Harry S. Truman) --Victor Borge (comedian, pianist) --Smith and Dale (comedy team) --Cornelia Otis Skinner (actress & author)
Scheduled guests: --The Nat King Cole Trio --Nanette Fabray --Buster Keaton --Milton Berle
Scheduled guests: --Buster Keaton --Arthur Lake --Jimmy Nelson --Vincent R. Impellitteri (New York City mayor)
Scheduled guests: --Victor Borge --Jerome Hines --Victor Moore
Scheduled guests: --Roberta Peters (opera singer) --Jean Carroll (comedian) --Ana Ricardo --Ben Wrigley
Scheduled guests: --Buster Keaton --Mimi Benzell --Jack E. Leonard (comedian) --Princeton Triangle Club
Scheduled guests: --Victor Borge --Phil Rizzuto --Nancy Walker --Eleanor Steber --Cornelia Otis Skinner
Scheduled guests: --David Niven --Ted Mack --Lauritz Melchior
Scheduled guests: --Mimi Benzell --Ben Wrigley --George Johnstone
Guests: --Anna Maria Alberghetti (14-year-old singer) - sings the Aria from ""Nightingale"" & ""The Rose"" --Joey Adams (stand-up routine, with Ed) --Billy Graves & Sons (tap dancing routine) --Joey Adams, Billy Graves & Sons - tap dance to ""Sunny Side Of The Street"" --James Melton (from the Metropolitan Opera) - ""Somewhere Beyond The Sea"" & ""Soul Is A Witness For My Lord"" --The Carters (roller skating family) - skate to ""California Here I Come"" --Audience bows: James Edwards, Bob Williams, Sugar Ray Robinson --Sam Snead (golf pro) - gives golf lesson, with broken wrist. Joined on stage by Sugar Ray Robinson & Bob Williams. --Moira Shearer (ballet dancer) --Moira Shearer & John Hart - dance the Adagio from ""Sleeping Beauty""
Scheduled guests: --Margaret Truman (singer, daughter of Harry S. Truman) --Jan Murray --Roland Young --Jimmy Wakeley (cowboy singer)
Scheduled guests: --Gloria Swanson (actress) --Roberta Peters (opera singer) --Vaughn Monroe --The Harmonicats --Harold Barnes --Granny Hamner (of the Philadelphia Phillies)
Scheduled guests: --Nancy Walker --Margot Fonteyn --Russell Nype
Scheduled guests: --Helen Forrest --James Melton --Byron Nelson --Trini Reyes (flamenco dancer) --Chaz Chase
Guests: --Les Paul & Mary Ford - ""On How High The Moon,"" ""Crying"" & ""Old Fashioned Motel In The Sky."" --Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (actor) - talks about his European adventure & reads from Kipling's ""If"" --The Irish Memory Review - performs an Irish Jig --Martin Keane (Irish tenor with step dancers) - ""A Little Bit Of Heaven"" --Mickey Carton, Francis Flanagan & Irish Step Dancers - ""Rickets Hornpipe"" --Artie Dan (correct name?) - fast talking comedian --Phil Spitalny and His Hour of Charm Orchestra - ""Voices Of Spring"" by Strauss, Mendelssohn's ""Spring Song"" & ""April Song"" --Nino (trained animal act, with dog tricks) --Audience bow: Jane Wunter (Miss New York press photographer) --On-stage bow: Jack Dempsey
Scheduled guests: --Jane Froman --Harvey Stone --Bill Tabbert --Peter Lind Hayes & Mary Healy --Byron Nelson --The Dunhill Trio --The Shyrettos
Scheduled guests: --Frankie Laine --Roberta Peters --Pinky Lee --Tucson Boys Chorus --Elsa and Waldo
Scheduled guests: --Jan Peerce (opera singer) --Walter Abel (actor) --Joyce Bryant (actress) --Bil Baird (puppeteer) --Hammond's Birds
Scheduled guests: --Robert Merrill (baritone opera singer) --Jane Morgan (singer) --Jersey Joe Walcott (heavyweight boxer) --Eddie S. Dworchek
Scheduled guests: --Dolores Gray (guest host) --Buster Keaton --Arlene Dahl --Henny Youngman (comedian) --Dick Danna --Andre and Bonnie
Guests: --Lena Horne - ""Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man of Mine"" (from the musical ""Showboat"") --Robert Merrill and Mimi Benzell - ""Indian Love Call"" (from ""Rose Marie"") Additional guests (scheduled): --Robert Bramley --David Burns --Carol Bruce --Wally Cox --Nanci Crompton --George Hall --Judson Laire --Allen Shane --Bill Tabbert --Charles Winninger
Guests: --Jose Greco (Flamenco Dancer) - ""La Petenava"" --Michael Bentine (hyper British comedian) --Yul Brynner - ""Puzzlement"" from ""The King And I"" (Brynner not in costume) --Bobby Winters - comic Juggler --Gil McDougald, Yogi Berra & Phil Rizzuto - three baseball greats interviewed by Ed with film highlights --Humphrey Bogart - actor interviewed by Ed, talks about his life --Audience bow: Lauren Bacall --Annette Warren - ""Along Came Bill""
Scheduled guests: --Broderick Crawford (actor) --Constance Bennett (actress) --Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (actor) --April Stevens (singer) - ""I'm In Love Again"" --Guy Mitchell (singer) --Cliff Hall (actor) --Jack Pearl (radio & movie actor)
Scheduled guests: --The Will Mastin Trio (Vaudeville act with Will Mastin, Sammy Davis, Sr. and Sammy Davis, Jr.) --Dorothy Sarnoff --Nino Martini (tenor, movie actor) --Michael Bentine (British comedian) --Jewell and Warris (comedy team with Jimmy Jewell) --Three Bessies
Scheduled guests: --Dolores Gray --Michael Bentine --Nino Martini (tenor, movie actor) --The Princeton Triagle Club --The Salzburg Marionettes
Scheduled guests: --Gloria Swanson (actress) --Julie Harris (actress) --Ramon Novarro (actor) --St. Vincent Ferrer Boys Choir
""Tribute To Cole Porter"" Part 1 with guests --Mimi Benzell & Brian Sullivan - ""Wunderbar"" --Monty Wooley - ""Miss Otis Regrets"" (Yale classmate of Cole Porter) --Anna & Pierre D'Angelo - ""Old Fashioned Garden"" --Lisa Kirk - ""My Heart Belongs To Daddy --Pierre & Anna D'angelo - ""Love for Sale"" --Mimi Benzell - ""In The Still Of The Night"" --Helen Wood, William Gaxton & Delores Gray - ""Anything Goes"" & ""You're The Top"" --Delores Gray - ""Night and Day"" Audience bows: the Notre Dame basketball team; Tom Sanders (Temple University student). Film clip: Yale Bowl football game.
""Tribute To Cole Porter"" Part 2 --Dolores Gray - sings ""Blow Gabriel, Blow"" --Lisa Kirk - sings ""Always True to You Darling"" --Jane Froman - sings ""Just One of those Things"" --Audience bow: Captain John Curtis Brown (Froman's husband) --Nancy Comden (ballerina) with dancing chorus - dance to medley of Cole Porter's hits: ""You Do Something to Me,"" ""Let's Do It"" and ""I Get A Kick Out of You"" --Dolores Gray and William Gaxton (joined by Ed) - sing ""Friendship"" --Roberta Peters (opera singer) - sings ""I Love You"" and ""So In Love"" --Jane Froman - ""Begin the Beguine"" and ""I've Got You Under My Skin""
Scheduled guests: --Jackie Gleason --Tony Bennett --Senor Wences --The Redcaps
Scheduled guests: --Sophie Tucker --Sadler's Wells Ballet --Tuskegee Choir --Montez D'Oca
Scheduled guests: --Jackie Gleason --Jan Peerce --Dorothy Kirsten --Steve Gibson's Redcaps
Guests: --Dorothy Dandridge - ""Do What Ya Wanna Do"" & ""Just One Of Those Things"" --Errol Flynn & Paulette Goddard - Private Eye sketch --Sam Sneed (golf pro) - Snead joins Ed on stage & gives golf swing demonstration. --Moishe Oysher - Hebrew song (unknown title) & ""So In Love"" --Norman Evans (British stand-up comedian) --Roger Price (stand-up routine, draws pictures to illustrate his stories, Ed plays straight man) Audience bows: Ann Claire, Fred Corcharan, Eddie Lawry, Elmer Ward Note: According to TV listings, a film clip from Walt Disney's ""Robin Hood"" was scheduled to be shown on this program.
Guests (Ed Sullivan's 4th Anniversary show): --Bill Lawrence & Cindy Lord - ""Manhattan"" --Sinclair & Spaulding - dance to Rodgers & Hart song ""Here In My Heart"" --Richard Hayes - ""Blue Room"" (from ""The Girlfriend"") and ""When Or Where"" (from ""Babes In Arms"") --Toastettes, Pal Joey Chorus - ""The Girlfriend"" dance number --Jane Froman - ""With A Song In My Heart"" and ""My Heart Stood Still"" (2nd song from ""A Connecticut Yankee"") --William Gaxton & Jane Froman - ""Thou Swell"" (from ""A Connecticut Yankee"") --Lisa Kirk - ""10 Cents A Dance"" and ""The Lady Is A Tramp"" (2nd song from ""Babes In Arms"") --Bill Lawrence - ""This Can't Be Love"" (from ""The Boys from Syracuse"") --Cindy Lord - There's A Small Hotel"" (from ""On Your Toes"") --Richard Rodgers (on piano) - ""Lover"" --Vivienne Segal - Bewitched"" (from ""Pal Joey"") --Harold Lang & Norma Thorton - ""Happy Hunting Horn"" (from ""Pal Joey"") Audience bows: Sister Kenny, Bart Sullivan
Scheduled guests: --Will Rogers Jr. --Rise Stevens --Jack Carter --Ben Hogan --Sonny Howard --Trini Reyes
Scheduled guests: --Victor Borge --Ken Whitmer --Artie Auerbach --Rosemary O'Reilly
Scheduled guests: --Hal Leroy --The De Marco Sisters --Bobby Shantz
Guests: --Edith Piaf - ""Padam, Padam, Padam"" & ""Jezebel"" --Pat O'Brian - reads ""What Is A Little Girl"" then does a silent poker game. --Joe E. Lewis (stand-up comedy routine: Vegas, Hollywood, politics, introduces pianist George Apply, and sings ""Ghost Riders In The Sky"") --Ed presents ""Look Magazine's Award for Top Ball players of the Year."" Winners: Phil Rizzuto, Bobby Shantz, Allie Reynolds, Yogi Berra, Ferris Fain, Hank Bauer, Mickey Mantle. (Ed Weir joins players on stage). --Van Velts (2 men & 2 women do acrobatics) --Dancers Of Bali - ""Dance Of The Bumblebee"" and, later in show, entire group performs the ""Monkey Dance."" Audience bows: Jacques Peel, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Harold Arlen
Guests: --Frankie Laine - ""Jezebel,"" ""High Noon & Sunny Side of the Street"" --Sugar Ray Robinson tap dances --Film clip: Barry Fitzgerald & Maureen O'Hara - film clip from ""The Quiet Man"" --Barry Fitzgerald (interview) - sits on stage and talks with Ed. --Alec Templeton (plays piano and sings) - Aria from ""Samson & Delilah"" and sings ""Give Me Your Name, Age, Height And Size"" --Les Compagnones de la Chanson (nine man choir) - ""Three Little Bells"" --The Szonys (ballet) - Pas de Deux Audience bows: Terry Moore, Joy Godbethere
Bert Lahr tribute - Lahr appears in three sketches: (1) Baseball sketch with Art Carney. Baseball coach Lahr is interviewed by Carney. (2) ""Schneider's Miracle"" - Lahr as a garbage man picking up litter in Central Park. (3) ""The Wood Chooper"" - Woodchopper Bert sings to his ax. Other guests: --Barry Fitzgerald (comedian) --Pat Harrington, Jay Villa and Rob Chambers - salute the upcomming Presidental election by singing ""I Like Ike."" --Barry Fitzgerald recites an excerpt from Abe Lincoln's second inaugural speech. --The Delta Ryhthm Boys (R&B group) - sing ""Dem Bones"" --Nancy Crompton (ballerina) appears on stage with Ed. --Harry Mimmo (comedian, tap dancer) - dances and does a comedy routine. --Mimi Benzell (opera singer) - unknown song --Show closes with ballet dancers on performing on stage (while closing credits roll).
Scheduled guests: --Roberta Peters --Ronnie Graham (from ""New Faces"") --Leslie Randall --Collier's All-American Football Team --Phil Moore's Flock --The Princeton Triangle Club --The Pierro Brothers
""The Samuel Goldwyn Story"" Part 1 Scheduled highlights & guests: --Bob Hope in a scene from ""The Princess and the Pirate"" --Danny Kaye in a scene from ""Hans Christian Andersen"" --Eddie Cantor in a scene from ""Kid from Spain""
""The Samuel Goldwyn Story"" Part 2 Scheduled guests include: --Frank Loesser
Scheduled guests: --Billy Eckstine (billed as ""the Great Mr. ""B"") --Bill Sears, Maria Riva, Mickey Deems in a comedy sketch --The Phil Jones Dancers --Eileen O'Dare (Folies Bergere headliner) --Phil Spitalny with his all-girl orchestra.
Scheduled guests: --Robert Taylor --Eleanor Parker --Margaret Sullivan --Guy Mitchell --Odgen Nash
Scheduled: --Richard Widmark in a film scene (film clip?) from ""Destination Gobi"" --Victor Moore (actor) --Vaughn Monroe (bandleader-vocalist) --Sam Levenson (comedian) --Patachou (dancer) --The Gae Foster Toastettes
Scheduled guests: --Debbie Reynolds appears in person --On film: Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor in a clip from their movie ""I Love Melvin"" --Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer appear in a skit. --Burl Ives (folk singer) --Roberta Peters (soprano) --The Vienna Boys Choir
Scheduled: --Clark Gable and Gene Tierney appear in a preview of ""Never Let Me Go"" (possibly a film clip) --Roberta Peters and Jan Peerce (Metropolitan Opera stars) --Jimmie McHugh (songwriter lyricist-singer) --Wally Boag (comedian) --Willie West and McGinty (comedy team) --The Maequis Monkeys
Scheduled guests: --Burt Lancaster --Brucie Weil (six year-old singing discovery) --Jay Lawrence (comedian)
--Harry Belafonte sings ""Matilda"" Additional guests (scheduled): --Gwen Verdon (listed as a ""cover girl"") --Dewey Pigmeat
""Toast to the Met"" - broadcast live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in celebration of the Metropolitan Opera's 70th anniversary. Guests: --Rise Stevens and Richard Tucker - the finale from ""Carmen"" --Rise Stevens, Roberta Peters; Robert Merrill, Richard Tucker - Quartet (from ""Rigoletto"") --Robert Merrill - ""Some Enchanted Evening"" (from ""South Pacific"") --Cesare Siepi and Paul Franke - ""Death of Boris"" (from ""Boris Godunov"" --Victor Borge - ""Dressing down Mozart"" routine Additional guest (scheduled to appear): --Hilda Gueden
Scheduled guests: --Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer (in a scene from S.N. Behrman's ""No Time for Comedy"") --Charles Boyer (actor, in a scene from ""Don Juan in Hell"") --Nora Kovach & Istan Rabovsky (husband-and-wife ballet team) --Norman Evans (British comedian) --Vigo Jahn (novelty act)
The Salzburg Marionettes were scheduled to appear in a special Christmas production.
Scheduled guests: --Rosemary Clooney (guest host, singer) --Julius LaRosa (singer) --Sam Levenson --The Ashtons (acrobatic troupe)
Scheduled: --Dorothy Lamour --Orson Bean (comedian, from ""John Murray Anderson's Almanac"") --Ruth Draper (had a one-woman show on Broadway at the time of this broadcast) --Yehudi Menuhin (violinist) --The Oklahoma University Glee Club
Scheduled guests: --Tony Martin --Senior Wences (ventriloquist) --Myron Cohen (comedian)
Scheduled guests: --Betty and Jane Kean (comedians) --Hilde Gueden (soprano) --Eileen O'Dare (dancer) --Colette Marchand (premiere ballerina) --Les Compagnons de la Chanson (French singing group) --Mayo Brothers (novelty act)
Guests: --Janet Blair - ""Our Fathers Played the Palace"" (big production number) --Novellas (acrobats) - man balances on ladder, juggles and dog tricks. --Audience bow: Paddy DeMarco (boxing champ); Rita Gam --Frank Fontaine (comedian) - does an Ed Sullivan impression then does his ""Crazy"" character. --Hurd Hatfield (actor) - dramatic scene from the play ""Bullfight"" where the matador is brought to shame. --Channing Pollock (magician) --Ed introduces college basketball stars --Nat King Cole - medley of hits (""Mona Lisa,"" ""Too Young,"" ""Pretend,"" ""Nature Boy,"" ""Lover Come Back to Me"" & ""Answer Me, My Love"") 11-minute medley --Lane Brothers - sight gag, two men in big suit
Scheduled: --Eddie Fisher --Betty and Jane Kean (comedians) --The Harmonicats --Richard Hearne (English comedian) --Gautier's Steeplechase animal act Also: ""A Night with Walt Disney's Artists""
Scheduled: --On film: Ed visits with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. The three are in a projection room viewing scenes from the new movie ""Vera Cruz"" starring Cooper and Lancaster. Other scheduled guests: --Leonard Warren (Metropolitan Opera star) --The First Piano Quartet (composed of Adam Garner, Edward Edson, Frank Mittler, and Glauco D'Attili) --Pat D'Or (English juggler) --The Dancing Szonys --Patti Bross (singer, winner of a Frankie Laine contest)
Guests: --Audience bow: The Georgesceau family (family who refused to spy) --The Notre Dame Glee Club (making its 6th annual Easter appearance) - ""Celestial Concepts"" --On film: clip from ""Roman Holiday"" with Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn and Eddie Albert. --Eddie Albert appears on stage with Ed. --Eddie Albert (with wife Margo) - ""Man is For the Woman"" --Eddie Albert and Margo - ""Never Marry an Actor"" --Eddie Albert - ""May to December"" (from ""Nickerbocker Holiday"") --Eddie Albert and Margo - ""Vaudeville,"" Tea for Two"" and ""That's Entertainment"" --Sam Snead (golfer) - demonstrates a golf swing --The Marquis Chimps (trained animal act) - chimps perform tricks --Eddie Albert narrates an adaptation of ""One God,"" a children's book about the various religious faiths practiced in America. Albert and three children visit Protestant, Jewish and Catholic services. --Audience bow: Florence Mary Fitts (author of ""One God"") --Audience bows: Bill Fulton, Pier A
Scheduled: --Chester Gould (""Dick Tracy"" creator and artist) --Victoria de Los Angeles (Metropolitan Opera star) --Korean Children's Choir (sent to the U.S. by South Korean president Syngman Rhee, under the patronage of the White House) --Moore and Lessey (comedy team) --Mata and Hari (dancers) --Joe Jackson, Jr. (circus clown) --Tom Packs and his elephant act
""The ASCAP Story"" Part 1 with scheduled guests: --W.C. Handy (composer) --Lionel Hampton and his sextet perform ""St. Louis Blues"" (composed by W.C. Handy)--Bert Lahr (comedian) --Lillian Roth (singer) --Julius LaRosa (singer) --Otto Harbach (ASCAP president) --Maude Nugent Jerone --Geoffrey O'Hara (composer of ""K-K-K-Katy"") --Roy Smeck (banjo player)
""The ASCAP Story"" Part 2 Composers scheduled to appear: --Jack Norworth - composer of ""Take Me Out to the Ball Game"" --Joe E. Howard - composer of ""I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now"" --Rudolf Frimi - composer of ""Rose Marie"" and ""Firefly"" --Harry Tierney, composer of ""Alice Blue Gown"" Other scheduled guests: --Julius LaRosa sings ""Young At Heart."" --Richard Whiting's daughters Barbara and Margaret Whiting do a medley of their dad's songs. --Benny Fields sings ""My Melancholy Baby."" --Nanci Crompton dances ""The Bridal Veil Dance."" Audience bow: Liberace
Scheduled: --Nat ""King"" Cole (singer) --David Wayne (plays the Japanese interpreter Sakini in a scene from John Patrick's Pulitzer prize-winning play ""Teahouse of the August Moon."") --Ted Lewis (entertainer known as the ""Is Everybody Happy?"" man) --Stan Musial (St. Louis Cardinal outfielder) --Byron Nelson (golfer) --Dick Contino (accordionist) --Richard ""Mr. Pastry"" Hearne (English comedian) --Scheduled audience bows: General Claire Chennault and members of his ""Flying Tiger"" division.
Scheduled: On film: Producer David O. Selznick discusses the re-issue of ""Gone With the Wind."" Also: a ""GWTW"" film clip. Other scheduled guests: --Betty and Jane Kean (comedy team) --Mindy Carson (singer) --Richard ""Mr. Pastry"" Hearne (English comedian) --Page and Bray (dancers) --Dickie Valentine (English singing star)
Scheduled: --Patti Page --Red Buttons (comedian) --Liberace with Hermione Gingold (Liberace plays ""The Warsaw Concerto"" as Hermione Gingold accompanies him on the cello.) --Liberace, later in show, appears as a hillbilly. --George Liberace (Liberace's brother) conducts the orchestra. --Richard ""Mr. Pastry"" Hearne (English comic dances and does pantomime). --Johnny Farrell (golf pro, discusses the coming National Open which takes place at his course) --Bacone Choir (30 American-Indian singers from Muskogee, Oklahoma, appear in costume to sing choral songs.)
Scheduled: Victor Borge and 12 finalists from the Army Talent Championship. --The 12 GI finalists were selected from among 75,000 men who auditioned from 12 worldwide Army command centers. --Victor Borge entertains while the judges (made up of prominent celebrities) tally their scores. --The finalists include Ezio D. Flagello, Emmanuel Lipman, Charles Malluzza, and Robert Brandstatter, all of the Bronx, Michael Domenico of North Collins, N.Y., Bernard Horowitz, of Brooklyn, Charles Reed, of Newark, and Cephus McGirt.
--Janis Paige and John Raitt - ""There Was A Man"" (from ""The Pajama Game"") --John Raitt - ""If I Loved You"" (from ""Carousel"") --Victor Borge - plays music of famous composers, then does his interpretations of how they would play ""Happy Birthday."" --The Goofers (instrumental quartet, sing ""When The Saints Go Marching In"" & do celebrity impressions) --The Wichita Orphans (barbershop quartet) - ""Wait 'Til The Sun Shines Nellie"" --Mata And Hari (dance stylists doing a Carnegie Hall sketch) --Yokoi Trio (3 female cyclists from Japan)
Scheduled guests (live from New York): --Bert Lahr (comedian) --Joni James (singer) --Ben Hogan (golfer) --Pat Henning (comedian) --The Dancing Szonys On film: --European acts, including chanteuse Patachou, pay tribute to Sullivan. --Ed interviews Genevieve de Galard-Terraube, the French flight nurse known as the ""Angel of Dien Bien Phu.""
Guests (show broadcast from the USS Iowa docked at the Hudson River): --Dolores Gray (musical comedy star) - ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" & ""Harrigan"" (dances with the Toastettes chorus girls) --Bill Kenny (from the Ink Spots) - ""Mary"" and a medley of hits: ""Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall,"" ""To Each His Own,"" ""If I Didn't Care"" & ""September Song"" --The Step Brothers (tap dancers) - dance to ""Give My Regards To Broadway"" --Dolores Gray - ""Grand Old Flag"" (with the Marine Drill Team) --Les Marcellis (gymnasts, acrobat act) - acrobats using one table & two chairs in their performance. --Jay Marshall (stand-up comedy) --Eileen O'Dare (acrobatic dancer surrounded by Navy audience) --Jackie (acrobat) --Dolores Gray - ""I Ought To Know More About You"" & ""Just One Of Those Things"" (surrounded by Sailors) --Navy Captain Wayne Loud - talks to Ed about his life and career. Then presents Ed with an Ed charactature drawn by Herb Hazelton, who also appears. --Ed reads telegr
Guests: --Victor Borge (pianist-composer) - appears as guest host --The Four Lads (vocal group) --Mata & Hari (dancers) --Roy Benson (comic magician) --Lita & Pepe (acrobats) --Jeanne Volk (singer) - winner of talent competition Other guests (scheduled to appear): --Audrey Meadows & Jack Whiting --Mary Small (singer) --Les Charlivels (acrobatic musicians)
Guests: --Eartha Kitt - ""If You Haven't Got Love"" (from the show ""Mink"") & ""Monogamous"" --John Raitt - ""Hey There"" (from ""The Pajama Game"") & ""My Boy Bill"" (soliloquy from ""Carousel"") --Janis Paige - ""Hernando's Hideaway"" (from ""The Pajama Game"") --Celeste Holmes with Hollywood director Michael Curtiz --Andrea Dancers (formal dancing, with double jointed girl) --The Bogdadis (juggling act with brothers) --Miss Malta and Company (animal act with dancing poodle)
Scheduled: --Eddie Fisher (guest host) --The American Legion's Jackson Zouaves drill team --Joyce's Camel --singing contest winners
Scheduled guests (broadcast from Atlantic City's Convention Hall): --John Harris' ""Ice Capades of 1955"" (40-minute segment planned) - starring Donna Atwood and Bobby Specht, with a cast of 110 skaters. --Roberta Peters (opera singer) --Sonny Howard (impressionist) --The Harmonicaires
""The Darryl F. Zanuck Story"" from Hollywood Scheduled guests: --Jack Benny --Dan Dailey --Shirley Temple --Gloria DeHaven --Ruby Keeler --Tony Martin --Sheree North --Dick Powell --Tyrone Power --Clifton Webb
Scheduled: ""A Salute to the U.S. Navy"" --All performers on this show will be made up of Navy personnel. (This is similar to previous programs showcasing Army and Air Force talent.)
Scheduled: A salute to the Cleveland Indians on the eve of the World Series (team to appear live from Cleveland). Scheduled guests in New York include: --Los Chavales De Espagna with Trini Reyes (Spanish singing and instrumental group) --""The Happy Wanderers"" (a children's choir from Obernkirchen, Germany, making their U.S. TV debut) --Augie & Margo (dance team)
Guests: --Kitty Kallen (singer) - ""Don't Let the Kitty Get In"" & ""In the Chapel in the Moonlight"" --Richard Hearne (British comedian, a.k.a. ""Mr. Pastry"") --Eddie Fisher - ""Swanee,"" ""Hey There"" and ""Fanny"" --Dane Clark, Don Taylor and Andrew Duggan - appear in a scene from the Broadway WWII drama "" The Fragile Fox"" --The Mills Brothers (vocal group) - do a medley of their hits --Eddie Fisher - ""Counting My Blessings"" Scheduled (but not on transcript): --From the Broadway play: Martin Gabel and Berry Kroeger in ""Reclining Figure,"" a comedy about the doings of a suave New York art dealer and his fake renoir painting.
Guests: --Elizabeth Taylor & Van Johnson (talk about their new movie ""The Last Time I Saw Paris"" & clip from the movie) --Elaine Stritch - ""You Took Advantage Of Me"" (Richard Rodgers song) --Harlem Globetrotters --Julius LaRosa - ""My Baby Cares For Me,"" ""Mobile"" and ""The Gal That Got Away"" --Richard Hearn (England's Mr. Pastry) - gets Ed to sing, causes confusion in the bandstand. --The Farias (acrobats) --The University of Pennsylvania Mask And Wig Club (men in drag do a production number with colonial dress and Spanish costumes). --Rosanna Carteri (soprano) - ""Mi Chiamno Mimi"" (Mimi's aria from ""La Boheme"") --Contest winners from Seventeen magazine's Save The Children doll contest.
Scheduled from New York: --Victor Borge --Roberta Peters (Metropolitan opera soprano) appears with Cesare Siepi, Cesare Valletti and Fernando Corena (known as the Met's ""Three Musketeers"") --Jimmy Boyd (young singer of ""I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"" fame) --The Ballets Espagnols with Terese & Luisillo (dancing company that appeared on Broadway, authentic Spanish dancing) --Rudi Horn (balancer) On film: Ed visits the London set of the John Huston movie ""Moby Dick."" Included is an interview with Gregory Peck, who plays Captain Ahab.
Scheduled guests: --Kirk Douglas (actor) --Eartha Kitt --The Ames Brothers (singers) --Carol Haney (dancer) --Jackie Miles (comedian) --The Wassan (acrobats) On film: A clip from ""There's No Business Like Show Business,"" starring Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Dan Dailey, Johnnie Ray, Mitzi Gaynor and Donald O'Connor.
Scheduled: --The Crewcuts (vocal group, known for their ""Sh-boom"" cover) --Sophie Tucker --Virginia Mayo (actress, with a film clip from her movie ""The Silver Chalice"") --David Whitfield (English operatic tenor) --Angna Enters (dance impressionist) --The Rudells (acrobats)
Scheduled guests: --Esther Williams introduces scenes from her film ""Jupiter's Darling"" --Hermione Gingold (comedian) --Alice Pearce (comedian) --David Poleri and Gloria Lane of the Broadway musical ""The Saint of Bleecker Street"" appear with composer Gian Carlo Menotti and producer Chandler Cowles. --Arthur Worsley (listed as Arthur Wardsley) (ventriloquist) --Olivette Miller & Gibson (dance team) --Ganjou Brothers and Juanita (adagio dancers)
Scheduled: --Lillian Roth (singer) --Fontane Sisters (singers) --Roy Franklin (singer) --Mata & Hari (dance stylists) --The All-American basketball team (five men selected by Collier's magazine)
Ice Capades of 1955 (broadcast from Chicago): --Victor Borge (skates out on ice) --Peg Leg Bates (tap dancer; dance routine, tap dance routine, tells leg jokes) --The Maxsons (ice skating pair) --The Old Smoothies (older couple dance to ""Shine On Harvest Moon"") --Ice Capades ""Tropicana"" production number. --Rudy Horn (unicyclist, tosses cups, saucers, etc on his head) --Donna Atwood (skater, skates to medley of Irish songs) --Irish Festival Singers - perform an Irish medley --Forgie And Larson (""Ice Capade"" performers, do a badminton match) --Vernon & Bumpy (child acrobats)
Guests: --Sarah Vaughan - ""S'wonderful"" & ""How Important Can It Be"" --Xavier Cugat & Abbe Lane - ""Brazil"" & ""Sway"" --Tony & Sally DeMarco (dance team) - dance to ""Easter Parade"" & ""Crazy Rhythm"" --Frankie Marlowe (comedian) - does Brando impressions, closes with song ""It All Depends On You"" --Sam Levenson (stand-up comedian, topic: education) --Dartmouth Glee Club (led by Paul Zeller) --Sam Levenson (comedian) --The Dartmouth College Glee Club --Lottie's Doves (might be ""Wlades Doves"") - trained animal act Audience bows: Dahl H. Davis, Robert Baster
Tribute to Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein Guests: --Celeste Holm - I Can't Say No"" (from ""Oklahoma"") and ""A Fellow Needs A Girl"" (from ""Allegro"") --Florence Henderson & John Raitt - ""People Will Say We're In Love"" --Florence Henderson & Gary Wright - ""Be Kind to Your Parents"" --University Of Oklahoma Glee Club - ""Oklahoma"" --Robert S. Kerr - Senator From Oklahoma talks about the musical, his state & America --Barbara Cook - ""Many A New Day"" (from ""Oklahoma"" with dancers) --Richard Colett sings ""Surry With Fringe On Top"" in Swedish. --Augustana College Choir sings ""Oh What A Beautiful Morning"" in Swedish. --Ed Interviews Oscar Hammerstein & Richard Rodgers who discuss the song writing process. --Richard Rodgers conducts orchestra for ""Oklahoma"" with entire cast joining in vocals --Emmett Kelly (cameo, wanders on stage towards end of show)
Guests: -- Fred Astaire - On stage, Astaire talks with Ed about dancing & golf, then combines the two by dancing with a golf club. Also: A film clip from ""Daddy Longlegs"" (with Leslie Caron) is shown. --Dorothy Dandridge - ""Good For Nothing Joe"" & ""I Got Rhythm"" --Sammy Davis, Jr. and the Will Maston Trio (Sammy dances and sings with his father and uncle). --Julius Larosa - ""Pass It On"" & ""Let's Stay Home Tonight"" --Joan Rhodes (British strong-woman, bends a piece of iron with her mouth) --Excess Baggage (dog act) Audience bows: Tony Demarco; Charlotte Brooks
Scheduled guests: --Louis Armstrong --Will Mastin Trio (with Sammy Davis Jr.) --Gary Crosby --Senor Wences (ventriloquist) --Richard Hearne
Scheduled: The finalists in the Army's world-wide talent contest.
Show broadcast from the USS Antietam (an aircraft carrier anchored in the Hudson River) --Beginning of show: Ed is in Navy Helicopter flying over aircraft carrier. The Hudson River & Manhattan Skyline are seen from the harbor. Helicopter lands and Ed introduces his helicopter pilot Lt. Les Taylor. Guests (appearing on first 30 minutes of show): --The Chordettes (vocal group) - ""Hummingbird"" & ""Dixie Danny"" --Naval Aviation Cadet Choir (from Pensacola) - ""Anchors Aweigh"" --Rufe Davis - plays guitar and sings ""Old Mac Donald"" (makes animal noises). --The Gaudsmith Brothers (dog act) - 2 brothers with poodles clown around on deck & do acrobatics. --Jay Marshall (comedian doing stand-up in front of big navy guns) - Navy humor, does ring tricks Other guests (scheduled): --The Step Brothers (tap dancers) --The Mariners (vocal group) --Priscilla Wright (singer) --The Piero Brothers (jugglers) --The Marcellos (acrobats)
Scheduled guests: --Ethel Merman (guest host) --Russell Nype (Broadway singer-actor) --Jimmy Edmonson (a.k.a. ""Professor Backwards"") --The Peiro Brothers (jugglers) --The Rhythmettes (dance group)
Guests: --Georgia Gibbs (singer) --Scenes from the 1956 edition of the ""Ice Capades"" (from Atlantic City's Convention Hall) --Donna Atwood (ice skater) appears in ""Peter Pan"" (an extended segment scheduled to run a half-hour) --Karen Barclay (the ""World's Most Beautiful Majorette"") --Donna Grescoe (violinist) Note: Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish were scheduled to perform a scene from their new film, ""Night of the Hunter."" But Shelley Winters became ill. The director and producer of the movie (Charles Laughton and Paul Gregory) were also scheduled to appear. The ""Night of the Hunter"" cast and crew were re-scheduled for 25Sep55 show (listed on the ""Ed Sullivan Show"" guide).
Scheduled: --Julius LaRosa --Winners of the Navy's world wide Talent Contest --The Marquis Chimpanzees