"Ford Star Jubilee" (1955) TV series 1955-1956

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

24 September 1955 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Music

Plot Keywords:

Company Sponsor Name In Title | Variety

Awards:

Won 3 Primetime Emmys. Another 4 nominations

Cast

Noel Coward	...	Charles Condomine / ... (3 episodes, 1955-1956)
Bing Crosby	...	Himself / ... (2 episodes, 1956)
Herbert Anderson		(2 episodes, 1955-1956)
Charles Nolte		(2 episodes, 1955-1956)
Ainslie Pryor		(2 episodes, 1955-1956)
Barry Sullivan	...	Barney Greenwald / ... (2 episodes, 1955-1956)

Runtime:

90 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White (surviving kinescope prints) | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Trivia:

For its final broadcast, on November 3, 1956, Ford Star Jubilee abandoned its usual format of presenting live shows, and lengthened its time slot to two hours in order to broadcast The Wizard of Oz (1939) - the first-ever television showing of that film, and the first theatrical film to be broadcast in its entirety on the CBS-TV network. This was not a special TV adaptation of the movie, but the movie itself. The broadcast was hosted by Bert Lahr, who played the Cowardly Lion in the film, by Justin Schiller, a 13-year old Oz book collector, and by a very young Liza Minnelli, daughter of Judy Garland.