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HOLLYWOOD PALACE, THE {GROUCHO MARX, GORDON MACRAE, SHEILA MACRAE, MARGARET DUMONT} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of lavish, vaudeville-inspired weekly variety programs. Guest host Groucho Marx presides over this program and opens the show. Program highlights include the following: The Four Kents, trick unicyclists from Denmark; Groucho's daughter, Melinda, singing "East Side of Town"; Melinda Groucho singing "Play a Simple Melody"; comedian Shecky Greene; Flamenco dancer Lydia Torea; folksinger Miriam Makeba with an African game song; comedian Don Saunders; Gordon MacRae singing "More"; Sheila MacRae with impersonations of Carol Channing and Barbra Streisand; the MacRaes with a song; and Groucho and Margaret Dumont with "Capt. Spaulding." Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: ABC
- DATE: April 17, 1965 9:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:58:27
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T80:0303
- GENRE: Variety
- SUBJECT HEADING: Music, popular (songs, etc.); Impersonations; Comedy; Acrobatics; Dance, Spanish; Folk songs, African
- SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1964-1970
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Nick Vanoff … Executive Producer
- William O. Harbach … Producer
- Grey Lockwood … Director
- Joe Bigelow … Writer
- Jay Burton … Writer
- Mitchell Ayres … Music (Misc. Credits), Musical Director
- Miriam Nelson … Choreographer
- Groucho Marx … Host, Guest Host
- Margaret Dumont … Guest
- Lydia Torea … Guest
- Gordon MacRae … Guest
- Sheila MacRae … Guest
- Melinda Marx … Guest
- Don Saunders … Guest
- Four Kents, The … Guest
- Shecky Greene … Guest
- Miriam Makeba … Guest