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#10764: ACADEMY AWARDS 22ND, ANNUAL, THE.

1950-03-23, , min.

Radio broadcast of the 22nd annual Academy Award ceremony at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood, California for the best films and performances of 1949. Broderick Crawford captured the best actor award for "All The King's Men" while Olivia de Havilland won best actress award for "The Heiress." "All The Kings's Men" won the award for best picture. This was the last year all five Best Picture nominees were in black and white. 

Other awards: Best Supporting Actor: Dean Jagger
Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes McCambridge 
Best Director: Joseph Mankiewicz

Host: Paul Douglas.

#10715: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

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1955-03-29, WNBC, 5 min.

TEX AND JINX Radio & Television BROADCAST HISTORY:

April 22, 1946- February 27, 1959.

WEAF (WNBC, WRCA), New York weekdays at 8:30 A.M. until 1954; at 1:00pm,1954-1955; then at 6:30 and 10:35pm until July 31, 1958, moving briefly to WOR, broadcasting at 2:15pm.

Today's guest, in a rare interview appearance in his career, is James Cagney who so very endearingly and casually answers questions called into the studio.

James Cagney remembers very well caller Sadie Griffin who gave James an early job as a custodian at the Webster Library when he was a boy attending P.S. 158 in Manhattan...discuses his Irish decent...speaks Jewish fluently and demonstrates a sample...going to Stuyvesant High School...remembrance of being in Mexico in 1941 with Jinx Falkenburg, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz...working first vaudeville act with "Hockey & Green," first act to speak yiddish, making a dollar and giving it to his parents...remembering DP of "Yankee Doodle Dandy," James Wong Howe...Ian MacDonald in "White Heat," originally titled "Baron Blood,"...first dollar ever made...first jobs and the many times fired from those job...

In addition to the Kollmars (Dorothy Kilgallen and husband Richard Kollmar) and the Fitzgeralds (Pegeen and husband Ed Fitzgerald), another well-recognized New York couple, newlyweds Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg, added their own bread-and-bacon banter to the local airwaves between 1946 and 1959. Their gabfest, initially Hi Jinx but later revised to Tex and Jinx, was beamed over WEAF which was subsequently re-lettered WNBC and later WRCA. In limited doses, the flagship outlet of the National Broadcasting Company transmitted Meet Tex and Jinx to the whole country during 1947 and 1948.

Tex and Jinx devoted most of their airtime to lofty and noble concepts, visitors and sidebars. Tex and Jinx [on WEAF-WNBC-WRCA] were interviewing Bernard Baruch, Margaret Truman, or Ethel Waters…. McCrary built the show on the assumption that the early morning audience was not stupid, as programmers generally assumed; that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day.”

Their joint radio venture began in April 1946 just 10 months following their nuptials (June 10, 1945). Launched as a breakfast feature, the series later shifted to afternoons and finally into the evening hours before departing the ether a dozen years afterward. They were branded by one journalist “Mr. Brains and Mrs. Beauty.”

In early 1947 NBC put them on its television network as a portion of a Sunday evening quarter-hour dubbed Bristol-Myers Tele-Varieties. “The McCrarys were naturals for TV,” wrote a reviewer, “with their combination of friendly chatter, interviews, and features.” That summer the web awarded them an exclusive Sunday night half-hour format under the appellation At Home with Tex and Jinx. A decade later, in the 1957-58 season, the duo hosted a daytime NBC-TV showcase, The Tex and Jinx Show.

When hepatitis sidetracked Falkenburg in 1958 from their broadcast commitments, McCrary carried on solo on their radio show for another couple of years. In the 1980s, however, the couple separated, remaining on genial terms. McCrary died in New York on July 29, 2003 and Falkenburg expired just 29 days later in the same city, on August 27, 2003.

NOTE::
The scores of TEX AND JINX SHOWS archived by Archival Television Audio, Inc. were originally obtained as original 16" Electronic Discs from Barry Farber, producer of the show (1957-1959), in 1960 after he had begun his own career in front of the mike at WINS Radio. These discs were subsequently transferred to 1/4" reel to reel tape, and then disposed. These broadcasts are rare and represent the largest known collection of TEX AND JINX extant broadcasts in the world.

#13337: ACADEMY AWARDS CEREMONY, 31ST ANNUAL, THE

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1959-04-06, NBC, min.

The 31st Annual Academy Awards Ceremony is telecast live from the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, California.

Personalities include Burl Ives, Bob Hope, Janet Leigh, Tony Curtis, David Niven, Shelley Winters, Red Buttons, June Allyson, Dick Powell, Tony Randall, Sophia Loren, Dean Martin, Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier, Cyd Charisse, Robert Stack, Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Maurice Chevalier, Rosalind Russell, Jerry Lewis, Vincent Price, Eddie Albert, Buddy Adler, Jack Warner, Millie Perkins, Gary Cooper, Vincente Minelli, Dirk Bogard, Van Heflin, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, James Cagney, Susan Hayward, Irene Dunn, John Wayne, Cary Grant, and Ingrid Bergman.

Hosts: Jerry Lewis, Tony Randall, Bob Hope, David Niven, Mort Sahl, and Laurence Olivier.

"Gigi" was awarded the best film of 1958.

#13418: ED SULLIVAN SHOW (TOAST OF THE TOWN) THE

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1960-05-14, CBS, min.

           June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971

ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN)
Television's longest running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955 to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles. 

 Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half-year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive.
 
The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture.  

The guests include Jack Carter, James Cagney, and Robert Montgomery.

#31: BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIGHT

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1960-06-19, WABC, 28 min.

Actor James Cagney is host and reviews the lives and boxing styles of Ingemar Johansson and Floyd Patterson, who meet the following night for the World's Heavyweight Championship rematch. Former heavyweight champs Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney analyze the styles of the two fighters.

#36: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR, THE

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1960-07-08, WNBC, 47 min.

Jack Paar's special guest is James Cagney, who plugs his new movie "The Gallant Hours," discusses conservation with Jim Bishop and demonstrates his dancing prowess with co-host Hugh Downs. Other guests chiming in are Genevieve and Shari Lewis. This show was a repeat originally broadcast on May 16, 1960.

#10977: ED SULLIVAN SHOW (TOAST OF THE TOWN) 15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW

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1963-06-23, CBS, min.

           June 20, 1948 - May 30, 1971

ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE, (TOAST OF THE TOWN)
Television's longest-running variety series. Originally, titled, TOAST OF THE TOWN, the name of the series changed on September 18, 1955, to THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW. Most remembered for introducing many stand-up comedians, and musical acts, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Presley, The Beatles. 

 Most of the 1,087 broadcasts, encompassing 10,000 performers, have been archived. The major exceptions are the first half-year of shows circa 1948 of which a few kinescope excerpts survive.
 
The ED SULLIVAN SHOW was a spectacular show-case that for twenty-three years entertained the American family. In its prime, more than thirty million viewers, young and old, tuned in at the same time to view popular culture.  

Host Ed Sullivan celebrates 15 years on CBS with film clip segments of previous shows featuring guests Julie Andrews, Louis Armstrong, Jack Benny, Fred Astaire, Richard Burton, James Cagney, Art Carney, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, Jimmy Durante, Henry Fonda, Clark Gable, Jackie Gleason, Robert Goulet, Topo Gigio, Oscar Hammerstein 11, Helen Hayes, Sonny King, Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Johnny Wayne, Charles Laughton, Jack Lemmon, Gertrude Lawrence, Ethel Waters, Raoul Walsh, Sophie Tucker, Rod Steiger, Red Skelton, Phil Silvers, Richard Rodgers, Frank Shuster, Elvis Presley, Cole Porter, Gina Lollabridgida, Robert Mitchum, Maya Plisetskaya, Moiseyev Dancers.

#513: TELL US MORE

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1963-09-30, WNBC, 22 min.

The careers of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Otis Gurnsey and from Radie Harris.

#19085: BALLAD OF SMOKEY THE BEAR, THE

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1966-11-24, NBC, 60 min.

The origin of the great bear, Smokey, conservation crusader. 

The voices of James Cagney, Rose Marie Jun, William Marine, Barry Pearl, George Petrie, Herb Duncan, Bryna Raeburn, Ruth Franklin, and Francine Carol are heard in this animated special.  
Songs by Johnny Marks. Narrated by James Cagney. Voice of Smokey the Bear portrayed by Barry Pearl.

#1115: PLAYHOUSE NEW YORK: HOLLYWOOD - YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS

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1972-05-19, WNET, 87 min.

James Cagney, Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, Humphrey Bogart,
Raoul Walsh, John Houston, John Garfield, Howard Hawks, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Walter Huston, Gregory Peck, Lee Marvin, Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Robert
Mitchum, Albert Maltz, Frank Capra, Dalton Trumbo, and others are personalities remembered by writer Richard Schickel in this retrospective of the 40's in the film industry. John Cassavetes narrates. Written by Richard Schickel.

#17632: AFI SALUTE TO JAMES CAGNEY

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1974-03-18, WCBS, min.

The second annual AFI life achievement salute goes to 30 year veteran film actor James Cagney. Celebrity honors come from Doris Day, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, California Governor Ronald Reagan, George C. Scott, John Wayne, Mae Clarke, Frank Gorshin, Bob Hope, George Segal, and Cicely Tyson. Frank Sinatra is the host. There are some commercials. 

Duplicate of #827.

#827: AFI SALUTE TO JAMES CAGNEY

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1974-03-18, WCBS, 80 min.

The second annual AFI life achievement salute goes to 30 year veteran film actor James Cagney. Celebrity honors come from Doris Day, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, California Governor Ronald Reagan, George C. Scott, John Wayne, Mae Clarke, Frank Gorshin, Bob Hope, George Segal, and Cicely Tyson. Frank Sinatra is the host. There are some commercials.

#5509: TOMORROW SHOW WITH TOM SNYDER, THE

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1975-10-24, WNBC, 59 min.

"The Tomorrow Show" with Tom Snyder is NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE.

October 15, 1973-January 28, 1982. 

Bob Hope is interviewed by Tom Snyder. Many topics are discussed including:
first experimental television appearance in 1932, NBC's large money offer to get Hope on TV, anecdotes regarding Bing Crosby, transition from Radio to Television, the charisma appeal TV had to offer, Bob Hope's Christmas Specials, challenging times during the mid-late 1960's when attitudes about the Viet Nam war were changing in America, publicity rumors that Hope is the richest man in the nation, handling rumors of the press, discussing his upcoming 2 hour special celebrating his 25 years on television, first jobs in vaudeville, first time he ever did a monologue in front of an audience, and for years did all of his own material, first film contract from RKO in 1930, Why Hope is no longer asked to be master of ceremonies on the Academy Awards Show, how politics is involved related to who wins oscars, his seven Road Pictures he has done with Bing Crosby and plans to do another one called "The Road to Tomorrow" (never realized), recollections of all the U.S. presidents he has known and performed for, his continuing friendship with Richard Nixon whom he feels sorry for, how his theme song "Thanks for the Memories" evolved, least favorite movies he has made ("Here Come the Girls - 1953), what gets him mad, how it feels to perform in front of 175,000 people, what he has yet to achieve (Oscar), how he feels at the age of 72, favorites he has worked with over the years (Bing Crosby, Lucille Ball, David NIven, James Cagney, Sammy Davis, Jr.), how material is written by his writers, and  summarizing his past 25 years in television. 

An hour-long talk show hosted by Tom Snyder. Network television's first entry into late-late-night programming on weeknights Monday thru Thursday, usually broadcasting on tape 1 AM to 2 AM. "Tomorrow" was expanded to 90 minutes on September 16, 1980.

#9098: PHIL DONAHUE SHOW, THE

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1976-01-30, SYN, 55 min.

1970-1996- Nationally Syndicated.

In 1977 Phil Donahue shifted his base of operations to Chicago from Dayton, Ohio and the show's title became known simply as "Donahue," a one-hour show usually devoted to a single topic or guest.

The guest is Doris Day.

1970-1996- Nationally Syndicated.

In 1977 Phil Donahue shifted his base of operations to Chicago from Dayton, Ohio and the show's title became known simply as "Donahue," a one-hour show usually devoted to a single topic or guest.

The guest is Doris Day. A complete one hour interview, the only one that Doris Day ever did on a television talk show.

Doris Day reflects on the many films she has made. Most times cast in films as a "goody - goody" character. Doris admits that she never had a weight problem...discusses her current biography publication, "Doris Day: Her Own Story" which is a very candid and surprising to audiences revealed many dark moments in her life. Doris talks about her first marriage at 17 to Albert Paul Jorden who had a vicious temper and would beat Doris, at the time of her pregnancy. She states that they really did not know one another at all. Her second marriage to George Weidler is discussed which lasted only eight months...another unsuccessful relationship. Doris advocates living with someone before marriage...getting to really know the other person.,.

Doris Day relates her relationship with her third husband, Marty Melcher, married in 1951 and lasting seventeen years until his death in 1968, the last year she ever made a movie. She states she still loves Marty even though he led to her bankruptcy after his death squandering her money through an unscrupulous attorney. Doris states that money was never a priority in her life, and relates a story revolving her son Terry Melcher one day after the death of her husband.

Doris Day confirms that she loved making films, has had a very lovely life till now, and is grateful for her health.
She mentions her favorite songs. and states that she regrets never taking good advice from Les Brown. Doris describes her affair with Jack Carson when making her first film.

More revelations from Doris Day's book, "Doris Day: Her Own Story" is discussed.

Doris admits that when she has been married she never was promiscuous. She reveals her feelings when working with Kirk Douglas (a joyless experience working with him), her relationship with Ronald Reagan, and circumstances related to the Charles Manson murders, and the real relationship Manson had with her son Terry Melcher.

Doris confirms that at this time she feels great. Now prays a lot. Not a church goer and if the right circumstance existed would marry for a fourth time.

Phone calls are received and Doris Day answers questions.
Favorite male co-stars and why...James Cagney, Rock Hudson, Jack Carson, Gordon MacRae, Clark Gable, James Garner.
Never felt close to Cary Grant, who was a loner and quiet on the set. Loved working with Frank Sinatra.

Doris mentions that her TV series will be re-run\.

Doris Day's current love is in the audience and Barry Comden takes a bow.

More remembrances, including first dancing for audiences when Doris was five years old. She admits that most important to her was to be happily married and states that she loves keeping house. Other revelations: Doris admits she use to be a heavy cigarette smoker...best to live together before marriage...her love of animals...and influenced to write her autobiography by Jacqueline Susann who told her to share her complex past life.

#10275Q: "NIGHT OF 100 STARS"

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1982-03-08, ABC, 90 min.

All Star Variety special celebrating the centennial of the Actors Fund Of America. 

Note: 90 minute excerpt of 3 hour program. 

Other stars appearing are Treat Williams, Henry Winkler, Robin Williams, Orson Welles, Jack Warden, Ben Vereen, Peter Ustinov, Liv Ullmann, Cicely Tyson, Daniel J. Travanti, Elizabeth Taylor, Lynn Swann, Donald Sutherland, Lee Strasberg, Beatrice Straight, James Stewart, Robert Sterling, Maureen Stapleton, Allison Smith, Alexis Smith, Sylvia Sidney, Brooke Shields, William Shatner, George Segal, Ricky Schroder, John Schneider, Isabel Sanford, Jane Russell, John Rubenstein, Mickey Rooney, Gunger Rogers,  Cliff Robertson, Pernell Roberts, Jason Robards, Lionel Ritchie, Christopher Reeve, Robert Reed, Tony Randall, Charlotte Rae, Anthony Quinn, Victoria Principal, Robert Preston, Stephanie Powers, Jane Powell, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Perkins, Gregory Peck, Hildy Parks, Al Pacino, Frank Oz, Jerry Orbach, Leonard Nimoy, Paul Newman, Roger Moore, Mary Tyler Moore, Dudley Moore, Jaime Monroy, Anna Moffo, Liza Minnelli, Ann Miller, Dina Merrill, Ethel Merman, Maureen McGovern, Michael McDonald, Marcello Mastroianni, Joel McCrea, James Mason, Mary Martin, Penny Marshall, Gavin McLeod, Myrna Loy, Dorothy Loudon, Priscilla Lopez, John Lindsay, Gina Lollabridgida, Hal Linden, Jack Lemmon, David Letterman, Janet Leigh, Michele Lee, Michael Learned, Linda Lavin, Frank Langella, Burt Lancaster, Edward Koch, Laura La Plante, Ted Knight, Jack Klugman, Robert Klein, Richard Kiley, Grace Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Gene Kelly, Howard Keel, Diane Keaton, James Earl Jones, Van Johnson, Ann Jillian, Ann Jeffries, Judith Jamison, Kate Jackson, Bernard Hughes, George S. Irving, Ken Howard, Lena Horne, Celeste Holm, Dustin Hoffman, Judd Hirsch, Doug Henning, Florence Henderson, Helen Hayes, Goldie Hawn, Julie Harris, Valerie Harper, Margaret Hamilton, Larry Hagman, Robert Guillaume, Harry Guardino, Charles Grodin, Joel Gray, Rocky Graziano, Linda Gray, Farley Granger, Ruth Gordon, Lillian Gish, Anthony Geary, Andy Gibb, Melissa Gilbert, Eva Gabor, Jane Fonda, Phyllis Frelich, John Forsythe, Peggy Fleming, Jose Ferrer, Alice Faye, Peter Falk, Lola Falana, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Evans, Nancy Dussault, Sandy Duncan, Alfred Drake, Placido Domingo, Joyce DeWitt, Danny DeVito, Colleen Dewhurst, Frances Dee, Gabriel Valez, (Muppets Puppeteer).

15 records found for James Cagney

#10764: ACADEMY AWARDS 22ND, ANNUAL, THE.

1950-03-23, , min.

#10715: TEX AND JINX SHOW: TEX MCCRARY AND JINX FALKENBURG

1955-03-29, WNBC, 5 min.

#13337: ACADEMY AWARDS CEREMONY, 31ST ANNUAL, THE

1959-04-06, NBC, min.

#13418: ED SULLIVAN SHOW (TOAST OF THE TOWN) THE

1960-05-14, CBS, min.

#31: BIOGRAPHY OF THE FIGHT

1960-06-19, WABC, 28 min.

#36: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR, THE

1960-07-08, WNBC, 47 min.

#10977: ED SULLIVAN SHOW (TOAST OF THE TOWN) 15TH ANNIVERSARY SHOW

1963-06-23, CBS, min.

#513: TELL US MORE

1963-09-30, WNBC, 22 min.

#19085: BALLAD OF SMOKEY THE BEAR, THE

1966-11-24, NBC, 60 min.

#1115: PLAYHOUSE NEW YORK: HOLLYWOOD - YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS

1972-05-19, WNET, 87 min.

#17632: AFI SALUTE TO JAMES CAGNEY

1974-03-18, WCBS, min.

#827: AFI SALUTE TO JAMES CAGNEY

1974-03-18, WCBS, 80 min.

#5509: TOMORROW SHOW WITH TOM SNYDER, THE

1975-10-24, WNBC, 59 min.

#9098: PHIL DONAHUE SHOW, THE

1976-01-30, SYN, 55 min.

#10275Q: "NIGHT OF 100 STARS"

1982-03-08, ABC, 90 min.