Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O'Connor (1952)

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The Colgate Comedy Hour with Donald O’Connor (1952)

Host: Donald O’Connor

With: Cecil Kellaway, Tom D’Andrea, Hal March, Marilyn Maxwell, Hedy Lamarr, Scatman Crothers

Directed by: Fred Hamilton, Jim Jordan, Sid Kuller, Sidney Miller

Running Time: 40 Minutes

Clips from the early television variety show The Colgate Comedy Hour with actor Donald O’Connor (Singin’ in the Rain). These segments come from episodes originally airing on March 2 and May 11, 1952 (according to the Internet Movie Database).

• An introduction looks back on Donald O’Connor’s career as a child performer and top film comedian culminating in O’Connor leaving his hand prints in the forecourt at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre; O’Connor begins hosting the show with his feet encased in cement.

• O’Connor sings a song about the pleasures of love while dancing with four fetching chorus girls.

• A week before Saint Patrick’s Day, O’Connor and Cecil Kellaway perform an Irish-themed number, “Merrily On Our Way To Nowhere.”

• Comedy skit with Tom D’Andrea and Hal March playing two unhappy soldiers stuck on a Navy ship.

• Guest singer Marilyn Maxwell performs “My Baby Just Cares For Me” and “I’ve Got a Right to Sing the Blues.”

• Comedy skit with O’Connor as an obnoxious vacuum salesperson visiting Sleeping Beauty (guest star Hedy Lamarr) in her castle; Kellaway also appears.

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