KALEIDOSCOPE

ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 4/24/55 (Live)
NETWORK: NBC
RUNNING TIME: 90 Minutes

The Cast
Judy Holliday (host)
Frank Sinatra
Dick Shawn
Rod Alexander & Bambi Linn
George Irving
Robert Gallagher
Beatrice Arthur
George Kluge
Peggy Castle
Craig Timberlake
Eleanor Williams
Don Pardo (announcer)

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Show Format

SEGMENT #1: Judy Holliday does the opening monologue about "spectacular" ways they could have openned the show. The suggested themes (college, show biz, South American, etc.) are each illustrated with short dance sequences. Judy does an impression of Marilyn Monroe near the end of the monologue. To hear a .mp3 file of the impression click here.

SEGMENT #2: Skit featuring Dick Shawn as tempermental tenor "Mario Dario" who has lost his ability to sing. George Irving plays Dario's agent. Robert Gallagher plays the Hotel owner. George Kluge plays a Walter Winchell type reporter.

SEGMENT #3: Judy Holliday introduces a musical skit called "Whatever Lola Wants Lola Gets." It is centered around an office party and is performed by Rod Alexander & Bambi Linn.

SEGMENT #4: Skit starring Judy Holliday as a talkative dumb blonde who visits an art museum. George Irving plays an artist who is trying to paint a reproduction of "The Blue Boy," but Holliday keeps distracting him.

SEGMENT #5: Skit called "There You Are." A take-off on the show "You Are There," focusing on "The Capture of the Thief of Babylon...June 8, 1207." Dick Shawn stars as the Thief and Judy Holliday appears as anchorwoman "Judy Cronkwood." Also features George Irving, George Kluge, Robert Gallagher and Don Pardo.

SEGMENT #6: Skit starring Judy Holliday as a series of women throughout the ages (cavewoman to modern) in search of the perfect hat. Beatrice Arthur narrates the segment.

SEGMENT #7: Live from Hollywood, Frank Sinatra (making his first ever appearance on a color televison show) sings "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die," "When Your Lover Has Gone," "Learnin' the Blues" and "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams." Sinatra also takes part in a skit with Peggy Castle. Castle plays a psychologist trying to find out why women swoon over Sinatra.

SEGMENT #8: Judy Holliday closes the show by performing a song and dance number called "A Razz-A-Matazz."

Show Credits

Written by William Friedberg, Neil Simon and Will Glickman

Dances & musical numbers staged by Rod Alexander

Musical Conductor Charles Sanford

Musical adaptation by Clay Warnick and Mel Pahl

Arrangements by Irwin Kostal

Choral Director Clay Warnick

Settings and Art Direction by Frederick Fox

Costumes by Paul Du Pont

Production Stage Manager Sterling Mace

Graphic Art Frank Wilson

Technical Director Heino Ripp

Lighting Director Fred McKinnon

Audio Engineer Fred Christie

Assistant to the Producer Max Siegel

Supervisor for NBC Hal Janis

Associate Producer-Director Bill Hobin

Produced and Directed by Max Liebman

Frank Sinatra Live From Hollywood segment

Produced and Directed by Bob Banner

Musical Director Nelson Riddle

Special material written & staged by Don McGuire

Art Director Frank Swig

Technical Director Ross Miller

Lighting Director Al Scarlett