CBS (Thursdays 8:30-9:30pm EST) (approx every 4th week)
(shared same time slot with anthology series "Climax!")
US Music Variety series 1954-58 approx 29 episodes x 60 min
30Sep54-17Apr58
Hosted by William Lundigan. Announcer:
Art Gilmore
This live musical series aired approximately once per month in the time period
normally occupied by the dramatic
anthology series "Climax". Both series were sponsored by Chrysler Corporation
and shared the same host,
William Lundigan. In contrast to the heavy dramas seen on "Climax", "Shower of
Stars offered viewers light entertainment
featuring some of the biggest names in comedy and music. Although there were
occasional plays - Lend An Ear with
Edgar Bergen, Sheree North, and Mario Lanza: and A Christmas Carol with Frederic
March and Basil Rathbone (which was
broadcast live three straight years) - most of the telecasts were musical-comedy
revues. Among the
performers who made multiple appearances in these were Betty Grable and her
husband Harry James, Ed
Wynn, Ethel Merman, Red Skelton, Shirley MacLaine, Frankie Laine, Van Johnson
and Bob Crosby. The most
familiar face on Shower of Stars however belonged to Jack Benny. He first
appeared on the show as the
star of "Time Out For Ginger", the play that opened the 1955-1956 season, and
after that turned up as one
of the principal stars of virtually every telecast of Shower of Stars until it
left the air in 1958.
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A salute to gold records of the mid-'50s brings together the talents of the
Andrews Sisters, who belt out
their biggest hits, Frankie Laine, Eddie ``Rochester'' Anderson, Rudy Vallee,
Gene Austin and special guest
Red Skelton. 1956 [RF]
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A host of musical giants from the `50s paint a tuneful portrait of the American
music scene of the day, with a
mosaic of songs from the likes of Frankie Laine, Helen O'Connell, Frankie Lymon
and the Teenagers, Les
Baxter, Nelson Riddle and his Orchestra, Jane Russell and more. [RF]
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