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(untitled)

December 2, 1951 rich

Cast: Fred Allen, George Sanders, Lauritz Melchior, Paul McGrath, Ginger Rogers, Dolores Gray

No audio currently held for this broadcast — status: missing from the surviving collection.

Synopsis

Ginger Rogers and Paul McGrath performed a scene from the just-closed Broadway comedy "Love and Let Love," which George Sanders and then Bankhead herself promptly spoofed. Lauritz Melchior sang Leoncavallo, Wally Cox delivered his "Dufo" and "The Hinker" monologues, and Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa closed with an "Allen's Alley"-style door-to-door bit polling the guests on how much they liked Bankhead.

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Editorial Notes

• Fred Allen, George Sanders, Lauritz Melchior, Paul McGrath, Ginger Rogers, Dolores Gray (Haendiges log)