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(untitled)

March 23, 1952 rich

Cast: Victor Borge, Rosemary Clooney, Marlene Dietrich, Paul Douglas, Cliff Hall, Jack Pearl, Earl Wrightson

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

Synopsis

Paul Douglas starred in a dramatization of John Richard Humphrey's fantasy "Michael Finney and the Little Men," about strange fish-like creatures living beneath a vacation-house pump house. Victor Borge performed his classic "Phonetic Punctuation" routine, Jack Pearl and Cliff Hall's Baron Munchausen went to Africa this time, and Marlene Dietrich traded an insult exchange with Bankhead before the two spoofed Douglas's own sketch.

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Editorial Notes

• Guest list from Martin Grams, "The Big Show: The Lost 1952 Broadcasts".