General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein

Directed by: Ralph Levy
Country: United States
Elsewhere: IMDb

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This 1954 live TV special celebrates the songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Hosted by several famous entertainers, it features performances from their musicals, including an early TV appearance by Florence Henderson.

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What happens

General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein is a two-hour TV special broadcast live on March 28, 1954, on all four major TV networks of the time, DuMont, CBS, NBC, and ABC. The special was hosted by Groucho Marx, Mary Martin, Jack Benny, Ed Sullivan, and Edgar Bergen with his puppet Charlie McCarthy. The performance of the segment from the musical Oklahoma! was the first time that actress Florence Henderson appeared on television. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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