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The Igor Cassini Show (NBC)(1953-54) Celebrity Talk show hosted by Igor Cassini
The Cassini Show (NBC)(1954) Late Night Talk show hosted by Oleg and Igor Cassini
The Igor Cassini Show (DuMont)(1955-56) Variety /Talk show hosted by Igor Cassini
The Igor Cassini Show(1955-56)
a.k.a. "Igor Cassini's Million Dollar Showcase".
Sponsored by Cinzano, Helena Rubinstein, Mercedes Benz
and on alternate weeks Butoni Products.
 Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
with contributions by: Rina Fox [Uploaded Jan 2019]
references:
TV Guide / Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (https://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive / Writers Guild of America (wga)
Info from LOC, New York Times, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Bridgeport CT.

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THE IGOR CASSINI SHOW (1955-56)
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DuMont Production

US Variety /Talk program. 1955-56   29 episodes x 30min

Host Igor Cassini
with Tony Cabot Orchestra

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DuMont Friday 9-9:30pm (21-Oct-1955 to 04May1956)

[01] Igor Cassini Show [Premiere]
21Oct1955 WABD Fri 9pm
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Dana Wynter
Tina Louise will wear the world renowned Hope Diamond, 44 1/2 carats of rare deep sapphire blue
society dances performed by Teddy and Phyllis Rodriguez
and the Cassini Girls in a fabulous display of the new designs of Oleg Cassini.

[02] Igor Cassini Show
28Oct1955
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Robert Kennedy (Chief Counsel of the Senate Subcommittee of Investigation).
Kim Hunter
French chanteuse Fernanda Montel
Also seen on the program will be an ancient clock from the collection of Czar Alexander III of Russia
and the presentation of a $500 dinner composed of exotic foods.

[03] Igor Cassini Show
04Nov1955
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Eva Gabor
Jerome Courtland
Flor Isava, beautiful millionairess and equestrienne.

[04] Igor Cassini Show
11Nov1955
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Rita Gam

[05] Igor Cassini Show
18Nov1955
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Metropolitan Opera Basso Salvatore Baccaloni
Louise Albritten.

[06] Igor Cassini Show
25Nov1955
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are

[07] Igor Cassini Show
02Dec1955
From Knickerbocker Batt at Hotel Ambassador
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
ainge Conrad Thibault
dancers Phyllis and Teddy Rodriguez.

[08] Igor Cassini Show
09Dec1955
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Franchot Tone
Bill Talbert
Tony Rella

[09] Igor Cassini Show
16Dec1955
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Dolores Gray
Jimmie McHugh
Harold Adamson
Cambodian Dancers.

[10] Igor Cassini Show  [Christmas Show]
23Dec1955
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Angier Biddle Duke
Christmas carols by New York stock brokers.
We see the original copy of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".
STANY, an organization of Wall Street investment brokers, sing Christmas Carols.
Plus ski and skating fashions

[11] Igor Cassini Show
30Dec1955
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Otto Preminger
singer Terry Stevens

[12] Igor Cassini Show
06Jan1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy
Walter Chrysler.

[13] Igor Cassini Show
13Jan1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Janet Blair

[14] Igor Cassini Show
20Jan1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Yvonne Adair
William Marshall

[15] Igor Cassini Show
27Jan1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Barbara Ruick
Jack Whiting
Lois O'Brien

[16] Igor Cassini Show
03Feb1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Denise Darcel

[17] Igor Cassini Show
10Feb1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Jerome Hines
Ivan Obolensky

[18] Igor Cassini Show
17Feb1956
Hostess Eva Gabor
Tony Cabot Orchestra

[19] Igor Cassini Show
24Feb1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are

[20] Igor Cassini Show
02Mar1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Elsa Maxwell
Salvador Dali
Mia Slavenska

[21] Igor Cassini Show
09Mar1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Howard Lindsay
Russell Crouse
Yvonne Adair
Joey Faye
Danny Dayton.

[22] Igor Cassini Show
16Mar1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Jackie Miles
Gloria DeHaven
Earl Wrightson.

[23] Igor Cassini Show
23Mar1956
Host Cleveland Amory
Guests are
Trevor Howard (British Actor)
Tony Bavaar.

[24] Igor Cassini Show
30Mar1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are

[25] Igor Cassini Show
06Apr1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Linda Darnell
 Lilo.

[26] Igor Cassini Show
13Apr1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Duke Ellington
Gypsy Rose Lee.

[27] Igor Cassini Show
20Apr1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are

[28] Igor Cassini Show
27Apr1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are
Nicole Maukey

[29] Igor Cassini Show [Final show of the series]
04May1956
Host Igor Cassini
Guests are

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