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#6956: ACADEMY AWARDS: 27TH ANNUAL

1955-03-30, NBC, 79 min.

The third televised Academy Awards with M.C's Bob Hope in Hollywood and Thelma Ritter and Conrad Nagel in New York.

#350: A 1960'S RADIO BROADCAST ADDITION: RETROSPECT (MEMOIRS OF THE MOVIES) THE TWO MINUTE TAKE

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1963-01-06, WINS, 28 min.

Program 6 of 18 programs in the series originally broadcast in 1961. The funny, frustrating business of acting for the movies, in short takes. Love scenes at 9 a.m., creating brainless roles and the battles against type casting are all deftly recalled by hostess Aileen Pringle.
Comments from Myrna Loy, Henry Fonda, Janet Gaynor, Mae Murray, Rod Steiger, Basil Rathbone, Melvyn Douglas, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Abel, Roddy McDowall and Nita Naldi. A feature presentation of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in collaboration with the Oral History Research Project of Columbia University. Produced by Joan Franklin and Robert Franklin.

NOTE: Robert C. Franklin (1920-1980), inspired by a 1958 newspaper story he read about Columbia University's POPULAR ARTS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, approached Dr. Louis Starr, then director of the oral-history collection, with a proposal to interview and tape record, on to 1/4" reel to reel audio tapes, movie people as they passed through New York. The objective would be to document, through personal recollections, the era of the silent era in films, the impact of sound, the triumphs and inequities of the major studios, and life in the glittering film capital...a firsthand account revelation of how silent movies were actually made.

Robert and his wife, Joan Franklin went on to record 200 reels of audio tape, recording celebrities mostly in New York City hotel rooms in 1958 and 1959. Transcripts of interviews were made available at the time to students and researchers.

In 1961 excerpts/highlights from these audio tapes were edited into a 16 part radio series titled, MEMOIRS OF THE MOVIES. Myrna Loy provided a standard opening. A different celebrity host/hostess was employed to introduce each episode. All of the 90 celebrities interviewed have since passed away with the exception of Joanne Woodward. Two additional episodes were later produced, "Style of the 70's," and "Rush To Reality," both hosted by Ben Gazzara and added, subsequently, to re-issues of the series which were syndicated in the 1960's and 1970's airing in New York (WINS), Boston (WBZ), Philadelphia (KYW), Baltimore (WJZ), Fort Wayne (WOWO), Chicago (WIND), San Francisco (KPIX), and Los Angeles (KFWB).

The original 200 unedited reels of 1/4" audio tape interviews recorded by Joan and Robert Franklin are no longer known to exist. However, audio cassette transfers from these original tapes were donated by Joan Franklin many decades ago to Columbia University's Oral History Research Office where they exist today.
Confirmed during a 2009 phone conversation with Mary Marshal Clark, archivist at Columbia at that time, who stated that the first on file communication from Robert Franklin to Columbia University related to his proposal to do an oral history audio recorded project is dated, July 31, 1958.

#404: A 1960'S RADIO BROADCAST ADDITION: RETROSPECT (MEMOIRS OF THE MOVIES): HOLLYWOOD'S YOUNGER GENERATION (ORIGINAL TITLE: THE FILM FACTORIES REVISITED)

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1963-02-24, WINS, 28 min.

Program number 5 of 18 programs originally broadcast in 1961. The brightest youngsters of today's films gang up on the picture business and give all the paralyzing reasons why they feel like misfits in the the movies.

Roddy McDowall hosts this spoken memoir of the movies with personal retrospectives from Jeanette MacDonald, Joanne Woodward, John Cassavetes, Rod Steiger, Pat Hingle, Teresa Wright, Paul Newman, Paul Lazarus, Adolph Zukor, Jean Negulesco, Jack Lemmon, and King Vidor. A feature presentation of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in Collaboration with the Oral History Research Project of Columbia University. Produced by Joan Franklin and Robert Franklin.

NOTE: Robert C. Franklin (1920-1980), inspired by a 1958 newspaper story he read about Columbia University's POPULAR ARTS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, approached Dr. Louis Starr, then director of the oral-history collection, with a proposal to interview and tape record, on to 1/4" reel to reel audio tapes, movie people as they passed through New York. The objective would be to document, through personal recollections, the era of the silent era in films, the impact of sound, the triumphs and inequities of the major studios, and life in the glittering film capital...a firsthand account revelation of how silent movies were actually made.

Robert and his wife, Joan Franklin went on to record 200 reels of audio tape, recording celebrities mostly in New York City hotel rooms in 1958 and 1959. Transcripts of interviews were made available at the time to students and researchers.

In 1961 excerpts/highlights from these audio tapes were edited into a 16 part radio series titled, MEMOIRS OF THE MOVIES. Myrna Loy provided a standard opening. A different celebrity host/hostess was employed to introduce each episode. All of the 90 celebrities interviewed have since passed away with the exception of Joanne Woodward. Two additional episodes were later produced, "Style of the 70's," and "Rush To Reality," both hosted by Ben Gazzara and added, subsequently, to re-issues of the series which were syndicated in the 1960's and 1970's airing in New York (WINS), Boston (WBZ), Philadelphia (KYW), Baltimore (WJZ), Fort Wayne (WOWO), Chicago (WIND), San Francisco (KPIX), and Los Angeles (KFWB).

The original 200 unedited reels of 1/4" audio tape interviews recorded by Joan and Robert Franklin are no longer known to exist. However, audio cassette transfers from these original tapes were donated by Joan Franklin many decades ago to Columbia University's Oral History Research Office where they exist today.
Confirmed during a 2009 phone conversation with Mary Marshal Clark, archivist at Columbia at that time, who stated that the first on file communication from Robert Franklin to Columbia University related to his proposal to do an oral history audio recorded project is dated, July 31, 1958.

#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.

#15548A: GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS, 25TH ANNUAL, THE

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1968-02-12, NBC, 40 min.

The 25th Annual Golden Globe Awards are presented. 
 
Andy Williams: Host
"The Graduate" (Joseph E. Levine): best Motion Picture
"In The Heat Of The Night" (Best Film)
Charleton Heston presents the Cecil B. Demille Award to Kirk Douglas, Laurence Harvey, and Faye Dunaway
"Mission Impossible"- Most popular TV show of the year
Katherine Ross, the Most popular female newcomer
Dustin Hoffman, the Most promising male newcomer 
World Film Favorite: Paul Newman, Gene Kelly accepts the award for Newman
Rod Steiger wins best acting award for "In The Heat Of The Night."
World Female Film Favorite: Julie Andrews,

#8201: GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS, THE 25TH

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1968-02-12, NBC, 00 min.

The 25th Golden Globe Awards telecast live from the Coconut Grove, Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. This was the first Golden Globes to include television awards.
This is a partial broadcast, originally scheduled as a 60-minute show.

#TW2: OSCARS '67

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1968-04-06, WNBC, 60 min.

Reviews candidates for Academy Awards.
Academy Awards preview with various nominated actors and actresses. Rona Barrett is host.

#1047: ACADEMY AWARDS: 40TH ANNUAL

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1968-04-10, WABC, 139 min.

Bob Hope is the host for the 14th time of the 40th annual Academy Awards.He would host this gala event alone only one more time; 10 years later in 1978, celebrating the 50th anniversary of this annual presentation. Academy President Gregory Peck gives tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bob Hope commences the program with a monologue. Presenters and award winners include Carol Channing, Patty Duke, George Kennedy, and Katharine Hepburn. In a salute to the history of the Oscar and its first decade of development, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, MacDonald Carey, Diahann Carroll, Robert Morse, Barbara Rush, Eva Marie Saint, Martha Raye, Olivia
de Havilland, who salutes Oscar's second decade, Natalie Wood, Richard Crenna, Elke Sommer, Walter Matthau, Estelle Parsons, Dame Edith Evans, Grace Kelly, who salutes Oscar's third decade, Hal Ashby, Rosalind Russell, Anne Bancroft, who salutes Oscar's fourth decade, Danny Kaye, Rock Hudson, Shirley Jones, Angie Dickinson,
Gene Kelly, Barbra Streisand, Robert Wise, Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Alfred Hitchcock, Mike Nichols, Sterling Silliphant, Stanley Kramer, Audrey Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Julie Andrews, and Walter Mirisch. Bob Hope concludes with some serious remarks reflecting the assassination of Martin Luther King regarding bigotry and the purpose of motion pictures...to reflect the human condition. Hank Sims is the announcer.

George Kennedy-Best supporting actor
Estelle Parsons_Best supporting actress
Alfred Hitchcock: Irving Thalberg Award.

#15759: ACADEMY AWARDS: 40TH ANNUAL

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1968-04-10, WABC, 131 min.

Bob Hope is the host for the 14th time of the 40th annual Academy Awards.He would host this gala event alone only one more time; 10 years later in 1978, celebrating the 50th anniversary of this annual presentation. Academy President Gregory Peck gives tribute to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bob Hope commences the program with a monologue. Presenters and award winners include Carol Channing, Patty Duke, George Kennedy, and Katharine Hepburn. In a salute to the history of the Oscar and its first decade of development, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, MacDonald Carey, Diahann Carroll, Robert Morse, Barbara Rush, Eva Marie Saint, Martha Raye, Olivia
de Havilland, who salutes Oscar's second decade, Natalie Wood, Richard Crenna, Elke Sommer, Walter Matthau, Estelle Parsons, Dame Edith Evans, Grace Kelly, who salutes Oscar's third decade, Hal Ashby, Rosalind Russell, Anne Bancroft, who salutes Oscar's fourth decade, Danny Kaye, Rock Hudson, Shirley Jones, Angie Dickinson,
Gene Kelly, Barbra Streisand, Robert Wise, Claire Bloom, Rod Steiger, Alfred Hitchcock, Mike Nichols, Sterling Silliphant, Stanley Kramer, Audrey Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, Julie Andrews, and Walter Mirisch. Bob Hope concludes with some serious remarks reflecting the assassination of Martin Luther King regarding bigotry and the purpose of motion pictures...to reflect the human condition. Hank Sims is the announcer.

George Kennedy-Best supporting actor
Estelle Parsons- Best supporting actress
Alfred Hitchcock: Irving Thalberg Award.

See #1047 for details.

#17730: EMMY AWARDS:26TH ANNUAL

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1974-05-28, NBC, min.

Johnny Carson is the host for the ceremonies, telecast live from Hollywood's Pantages Theatre. Presenters include Martin Balsam, Carol Burnett, Leslie Caron, Richard Chamberlain, Nanette Fabray, Robert Goulet, David Hartman, Rock Hudson, Carol Lawrence, Ginger Rogers, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, and Dick Van Dyke.  

Duplicate of # 6081.

#6081: EMMY AWARDS:26TH ANNUAL

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1974-05-28, NBC, 120 min.

Johnny Carson is the host for the ceremonies, telecast live from Hollywood's Pantages Theatre. Presenters include Martin Balsam, Carol Burnett, Leslie Caron, Richard Chamberlain, Nanette Fabray, Robert Goulet, David Hartman, Rock Hudson, Carol Lawrence, Ginger Rogers, Eva Marie Saint, Rod Steiger, and Dick Van Dyke.

#1144: SULLIVAN YEARS, THE

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1975-02-02, WCBS, 50 min.

Memorable moments from the Ed Sullivan Show hosted by Dick Cavett. Highlight appearances by The Beatles, Maurice Chevalier, Sophie Tucker, Petula Clark, Janis Joplin, Barbra Streisand, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Woody Allen, Myron Cohen, Rodney Dangerfield, Alan King, Sam Levinson, Henny Youngman, Jerry Lewis, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, Joan Sutherland, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, and Rod Steiger. This presentation was a specially edited one hour commercial repeat of the 90 minute TV Special which aired Oct. 17, 1971.

#7416: SULLIVAN YEARS, THE

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1975-02-02, CBS, 00 min.

Memorable moments from the Ed Sullivan Show hosted by Dick Cavett. Highlight appearances by The Beatles, Maurice Chevalier, Sophie Tucker, Petula Clark, Janis Joplin, Barbra Streisand, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Woody Allen, Myron Cohen, Rodney Dangerfield, Alan King, Sam Levinson, Henny Youngman, Jerry Lewis, Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Bing Crosby, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, Joan Sutherland, Fred Astaire, Gary Cooper, and Rod Steiger. This presentation was a specially edited one hour commercial repeat of the 90 minute TV Special which aired Oct. 17, 1971.  

Dupe Of Number 1144.

#18052: PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS: SECOND ANNUAL, THE

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1976-02-19, CBS, 30 min.

Live telecast of the second annual People's Choice Awards.  

Host: Jack Albertson.  

Duplicate of #9073. First half-hour only.

#9073: PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS: SECOND ANNUAL, THE

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1976-02-19, CBS, 120 min.

Live telecast of the second annual People's Choice Awards.  

Host: Jack Albertson.

#8844: MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, THE

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1976-04-29, SYN, 60 min.

1963-1982 (SYNDICATED). Mike Douglas hosted one of television's longest-running talk shows (19 years). Each week Douglas was joined by a different co-host. In 1967, "The Mike Douglas Show" became the first syndicated talk show to win an Emmy Award.

Broadcast from 1963-1978 in Philadelphia
Broadcast from 1978-1982 in Los Angeles 

A salute to W.C. Fields  with many anecdotes and film clips reflecting his life on and off the screen.  Rod Steiger who plays Fields in the motion  picture  W.C. Fields & Me and Jack Cassidy who plays John Barrymore in the film  discuss many topics and experiences they have had in show business..

#9678: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON, THE

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1976-10-07, NBC, 90 min.

October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.




Johnny's guests are Rod Steiger, Tom Dreesen, and Debbie Reynolds.

#18446: ACADEMY AWARDS: 52ND ANNUAL, THE

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1980-04-14, ABC, min.

The 52nd annual Academy Awards ceremony from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. 

Host: Johnny Carson.     
Announcer: Hank Simms 

Kramer vs. Kramer won for best picture
Dustin Hoffman: Best Actor
Sally Field: Best Actress
Melvyn Douglas: Best Supporting Actor
Meryl Streep: Best Supporting Actress

#20059: ACADEMY AWARDS: 52ND ANNUAL, THE

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1980-04-14, ABC, min.

The 52nd annual Academy Awards ceremony from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. 

Host: Johnny Carson.     
Announcer: Hank Simms 

Kramer vs. Kramer won for best picture
Dustin Hoffman: Best Actor
Sally Field: Best Actress
Melvyn Douglas: Best Supporting Actor
Meryl Streep: Best Supporting Actress 

Duplicate of #18446.

19 records found for Rod Steiger

#6956: ACADEMY AWARDS: 27TH ANNUAL

1955-03-30, NBC, 79 min.

#350: A 1960'S RADIO BROADCAST ADDITION: RETROSPECT (MEMOIRS OF THE MOVIES) THE TWO MINUTE TAKE

1963-01-06, WINS, 28 min.

#404: A 1960'S RADIO BROADCAST ADDITION: RETROSPECT (MEMOIRS OF THE MOVIES): HOLLYWOOD'S YOUNGER GENERATION (ORIGINAL TITLE: THE FILM FACTORIES REVISITED)

1963-02-24, WINS, 28 min.

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

1963-06-23, CBS, min.

#15548A: GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS, 25TH ANNUAL, THE

1968-02-12, NBC, 40 min.

#8201: GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS, THE 25TH

1968-02-12, NBC, 00 min.

#TW2: OSCARS '67

1968-04-06, WNBC, 60 min.

#1047: ACADEMY AWARDS: 40TH ANNUAL

1968-04-10, WABC, 139 min.

#15759: ACADEMY AWARDS: 40TH ANNUAL

1968-04-10, WABC, 131 min.

#17730: EMMY AWARDS:26TH ANNUAL

1974-05-28, NBC, min.

#6081: EMMY AWARDS:26TH ANNUAL

1974-05-28, NBC, 120 min.

#1144: SULLIVAN YEARS, THE

1975-02-02, WCBS, 50 min.

#7416: SULLIVAN YEARS, THE

1975-02-02, CBS, 00 min.

#18052: PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS: SECOND ANNUAL, THE

1976-02-19, CBS, 30 min.

#9073: PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS: SECOND ANNUAL, THE

1976-02-19, CBS, 120 min.

#8844: MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, THE

1976-04-29, SYN, 60 min.

#9678: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JOHNNY CARSON, THE

1976-10-07, NBC, 90 min.

#18446: ACADEMY AWARDS: 52ND ANNUAL, THE

1980-04-14, ABC, min.

#20059: ACADEMY AWARDS: 52ND ANNUAL, THE

1980-04-14, ABC, min.