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1957.

Tonight: America After Dark is a forgotten iteration of the Tonight Show that is widely considered one of the worst TV programs ever made.

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TV Guide -  August 1 - 7, 1964

The “Today” cast

Hugh Downs, Maureen O'Sullivan, Frank Blair and Jack Lescoulie of Today

Hugh Malcolm Downs (February 14, 1921 – July 1, 2020)  Broadcaster, television host, news anchor, TV producer, author, game show host, and music composer. A regular television presence from the 1940s through the 1990s, he had several successful roles on morning television, prime time television, and late night television. Downs served as announcer/sidekick for Tonight Starring Jack Paar from 1957 to 1962, co-host of the NBC News program Today from 1962 to 1971, host of the Concentration game show from 1958 to 1969, and anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20 from 1978 to 1999.   (Wikipedia)

Maureen O'Sullivan (May 17, 1911 – June 23, 1998)  Actress, who played Jane in the Tarzan series of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller. She performed with such actors as Laurence Olivier, Greta Garbo, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. In 2020, she was listed at number eight on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.  In 1964 she was the Today Girl for NBC’s news program Today.  (Wikipedia)

Frank S. Blair Jr. (May 30, 1915 – March 14, 1995)  Broadcast journalist for NBC News, perhaps best known for being the news anchor on the Today program from 1953 to 1975.  (Wikipedia)

Jack Lescoulie (November 17, 1912 – July 22, 1987)  Radio and television announcer and host, notably on NBC's Today during the 1950s and 1960s; a newspaper source lists his date of birth as May 17, 1912.  Lescoulie was also known for his voice impersonation of comedian Jack Benny. (Wikipedia)

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Rundown Of “The Honeymooners” Marathon On PIX11 12/31/2022-1/1/2023

Some of you already know about this feature but perhaps there are those who don’t and with that being said let me inform those new to “The Chronicles of Piercing Ken” website that for the last few years I’ve sat down and cobbled together a complete rundown of the annual marathon of episodes of the classic comedy series “The Honeymooners”. This marathon is presented to us by the fine folks at…

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Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies 1941 Episode 22: Meet John Doughboy

Written by Warren Foster

Directed by Bob Clampett

Animated by Vive Risto

Voice characterizations by Mel Blanc, Robert C. Bruce, Jack Lescoulie, Billy Bletcher & Bob Clampett

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Truly Unruly, Jack Lescoulie

I count it as a measure of how quickly show business will bury you that though I was born around the time Jack Lescoulie (1912-1987) was drifting out of network television, I never heard of him — at all — until very recently. And I have heard of MANY obscure people. And, as always, in my book Lescoulie was too prominent to EVER become obscure, at least in a fair and rational world, which this…

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Comment from our Tumblr friend pressuregradient:

Mary Kelly was one of the staffers central to the early years of Today. On the very first broadcast, Dave Garroway stopped by her desk to introduce her to viewers, and to (unintentionally) troll her by playing with her electric typewriter, which he evidently found fascinating.

You can see that moment from the first broadcast here. Garroway introduces Kelly at the 7:30 mark.

Above: Estelle Parsons, Mary Kelly and Jack Lescoulie on the original Today show set, 1952. From the Mary Kelly papers, Special Collections in Mass Media and Culture at the University of Maryland.

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A GIRL, A GUY, AND A GOB

March 14, 1941

Directed by Richard Wallace

Produced by Harold Lloyd for RKO Radio Pictures

Written by Bert Granet and Frank Ryan, based on a story by Grover Jones

Synopsis ~ A shy, quiet executive for a shipping firm who finds himself with a dilemma: he’s become smitten with his young temporary secretary but she’s the girlfriend of his Navy buddy - and the buddy is scheduled to be discharged in only a few days.

Note: “Gob” is a slang word for a sailor. This term first showed up in regard to sailors around 1909 and may have come from the word gobble. Reportedly, some people thought that sailors gobbled their food. The term also may come from the word gob, which means to spit, something sailors also reportedly do often.

PRINCIPAL CAST

Lucille Ball as (Dorothy ‘Dotty’ Duncan aka ‘The Girl’) is in her 52nd film since coming to Hollywood in 1933. 

George Murphy (Claudius ‘Coffee’ Cup aka ‘The Gob’) was in four films with Lucille Ball between 1934 and 1941. In 1959, Murphy served as guest host of “The Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse” when Desi Arnaz took a role in his own anthology series. He was also a performer in “The Desilu Revue” aired in December 1959. As the host of “MGM Parade”, he interviewed Lucy and Desi in February 1956.

Edmond O'Brien (Stephen Herrick aka ‘The Guy’) won an Oscar in 1955 for The Barefoot Contessa. He was nominated a second time in 1965. 

Henry Travers (Abel Martin) was nominated for an Oscar for Mrs. Miniver in 1943. He is best remembered for playing Clarence the Angel in It’s A Wonderful Life (1946). 

Franklin Pangborn (Pet Shop Owner) did four films with Lucille Ball between 1937 and 1946. 

George Cleveland (Pokey Duncan) did four more films with Lucille Ball till 1949. 

Kathleen Howard (Jawme) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball. 

Marguerite Chapman (Cecilia Grange) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Lloyd Corrigan (Pigeon) did Two Smart People with Lucille Ball in 1949. He played the minister in “The Milton Berle Lucy-Desi Special” in 1959. He also did three episodes of “The Lucy Show.”

Mady Correll (Cora) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Frank McGlynn, Sr. (Pankington) makes his only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Doodles Weaver (Eddie) makes his only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Frank Sully (Salty) did four films with Lucille Ball before playing the man who delivers “The Freezer” on “I Love Lucy.”

Nella Walker (Mrs. Grange) also appeared with Lucille Ball in Fugitive Lady (1934). 

Richard Lane (Recruiting Officer) previously appeared in three films with Lucille Ball in 1937 and 1938. 

Irving Bacon (Mr. Merney) did seven films with Lucille Ball before playing Mr. Willoughby in  in “The Marriage License” (1952) and Will Potter in “Ethel’s Hometown” (1955).

Rube Demarest (Ivory) makes his only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Charles Smith (Messenger) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball.

Bob McKenzie (Porter) appeared in three other films with Lucille Ball. 

Nora Cecil (Charwoman) makes her only appearance with Lucille Ball.

UNCREDITED CAST 

SAILORS 

James Bush (Sailor Taking Address Book), Charles Flynn (Thin Sailor), Jack Lescoulie, George Ford, Art Rowlands, *Bernard Sell 

HUSTLERS

Tom Quinn, Cyril Ring, Ralph Brooks 

AT THE OPERA

Edward Peil Sr. (Assistant Manager), Eddie Arden (Opera Page Boy), Warren Ashe (Ticket Taker),  Blue Washington (Doorman), Jimmy Cleary (Program Boy), Tom Costello (Floor Manager), William A. Boardway (Patron), Walter Byron (Patron), James Carlisle (Patron), Jean Fowler (Patron), Kenneth Gibson (Patron), Carl M. Leviness (Patron), John George (Newsboy Outside Opera House)

AT THE DANCE HALL

Carolyn Hughes (Girl), Charles Irwin (Emcee), Eddie Borden (Man),  Eddie Hart (Ticket Taker #2), Dewey Robinson (Bouncer), Ronald R. Rondell (Ticket Taker)

AT THE MARRIAGE BUREAU & WEDDING CHAPEL

Wade Boteler (Uniformed Attendant), Homer Dickenson (Wedding Chapel Attendant), Harry "Snub" Pollard (Attendant), Wade Boteler (Uniformed Attendant), Fern Emmett (Middle-Aged Woman at Marriage Bureau), Henry Roquemore (Middle-Aged Man at Marriage Bureau), Effie Anderson (Marriage Bureau Clerk), Hal K. Dawson (Photographer)

IN THE STREETS: PEDESTRIANS, BYSTANDERS, OBSERVERS

Mary Field (Woman on Street), Vince Barnett (Pedestrian), Leon Belasco (Taxi Driver), George Lloyd (Bystander Smoking Cigar), Joe Bernard (Tattoo Artist), George McKay (Joe - Counterman), Vince Barnett (Bystander with Packages), Victor Potel (Bystander Eating Popcorn), *Leon Belasco (First Taxi Driver), *Mike Lally (Second Taxi Driver), George Chandler (Bystander Betting Five Bucks), Irene Coleman (Bystander Watching Eddie Grow), Tom Coleman (Pedestrian), Andrew Tombes (Bus Conductor), Hal K. Dawson (Photographer), Edgar Dearing (Policeman), Fern Emmett (Middle-Aged Woman), Mary Field (Woman on Street), Bud Jamison (Tall Bystander), Tiny Jones (Passerby), Bert Moorhouse (Pedestrian), Bud Osborne (Bystander), Frank Mills (Laborer in Manhole), Andrew Tombes (Bus Conductor)

OTHERS

Sally Conlin (Little Girl) 

Joe Geil (Boy)

Steve Pendleton (Mr. Adams)

Earle Hodgins (Sylvester P. Wurple) 

Lloyd Ingraham (Announcer of Piano Winner)

Alex Pollard (Butler)

George Lollier (Grange's Chauffeur) 

Alexander Pollard (Grange's Butler) 

* actors who later did background work on Lucille Ball’s sitcoms. 

3G TRIVIA

The film was dramatized for radio on “The Screen Guild Radio Theatre” on October 9, 1944, also starring Lucille Ball and George Murphy. They rerpised their roles on radio once again for “Old Gold Comedy Theatre” on February 11, 1945. 

Maureen O'Hara was initially slated for the role played by Lucille Ball.  Ball and O’Hara had done the 1940 film Dance, Girl, Dance together. 

This film came towards the end of Lucille Ball's RKO days. She had already achieved leading lady status and would only make four more films for RKO before moving to MGM. She couldn’t know that she would one day own the studio with her husband, Desi Arnaz. Interestingly, RKO borrowed George Murphy from MGM for this film. 

This film's earliest documented telecast took place in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on  Sunday June 3, 1956 over TV station WFBG. That same week, Lucille Ball began filming season six of “I Love Lucy” in Hollywood. 

In 1971, “The Carol Burnett Show” spoofed the film with “A Gob, a Girl and Her Galoshes".

The movie was referenced in the Emmy-winning documentary “Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie”. 

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#OnThisDay in 1958, Betsy Palmer joined "The Today Show" panel. Here she is with Frank Blair and Jack Lescoulie.

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ΣΑΝ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ/ON THIS DAY

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Το κομμάτι ʼʼOh, Lady Be Good!ʼʼ γράφτηκε από τους  George και Ira Gershwin το 1924. Παρόλα αυτά το κομμάτι έγινε jazz standard όταν ηχογραφήθηκε από τους σαξοφωνίστες Lester Young και Charlie Parker.

Ο Bob Moses γεννήθηκε σαν σήμερα το 1948 στη Νέα Υόρκη, είναι ένας Αμερικανός ντράμερ της jazz που έπαιξε με τους Roland Kirk, Larry Coryell, Gary Burton, Dave Liebman, Pat Metheny και άλλους.

Ο Ronnie Scott γεννήθηκε το 1927 στο Aldgate της Αγγλίας, ήταν ένας από τους κορυφαίους τενόρο σαξοφωνίστες της Αγγλικής jazz σκηνής.

1830 Opera "Fra Diavolo" by Daniel Auber, premieres in Paris

1916 Opera "Goyescas" premieres (NYC)

1936 Pravda criticizes Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth"

1956 Elvis Presley's 1st appearance on National TV (Dorsey Bros Stage Show)

1957 "Tonight! America After Dark" premieres, with Jack Lescoulie & Al (Jazzbo) Collins on NBC (between Steve Allen & Jack Paar)

1963 "Still" single released by Bill Anderson (Billboard no. 1 U.S. Hot Country Singles 1963)

1965 The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV

1967 Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together"

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Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis with NBC News' Jack Lescoulie and Frank Blair on the Atlantic City boardwalk on June 20, 1954 in Atlantic City, New Jersey for the Today's Show. (Credit JL fan forum, Joe548)

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Tonight: America After Dark (1957) was a disastrous revamp of the Tonight Show that aired for less than six months after Steve Allen left and before Jack Paar took over. It was hosted by prominent yet bumbling newsmen - most of whom looked like shit in front of a camera.

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Jack Lescoulie, Charles Van Doren, Betsy Palmer, Frank Blair and Dave Garroway on the “Today” set in 1958. 

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Rundown Of “The Honeymooners” Marathon On PIX11 12/31/2021-1/1/2022

For the last couple of years I’ve sat down and cobbled together a complete rundown of the annual marathon of episodes of “The Honeymooners” that is presented to us over on PIX11. In 2020 it was super important to keep people indoors for safety’s sake and now with the terrible surge in cases of this Omicron variant I think that this might be the best course of action for 2021’s New Year’s Eve as…

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Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies 1941 Episode 11: Goofy Groceries

Written by Melvin Millar

Directed by Bob Clampett

Animated by Vive Risto

Voice characterizations by Mel Blanc, Sara Berner, Kent Rogers & Jack Lescoulie

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Dean Martin with NBC News's Jack Lescoulie on the Atlantic City boardwalk, June 1954

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The One and Only, Genuine, Original Today Show Band, Dave Garroway conducting. 1950s.

From the Mary Kelly collection.