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SUNDAY SHOWCASE - The Frances Langford Show

Air Date/Released Sunday, May 1, 1960
Station/Studio NBC / Chanford Productions
Host/Star Frances Langford
Featuring Moe, Larry and Curly Joe

NBC Sunday night series of specials, presenting dramas, variety shows, musicals and historical plays.

Frances Langford hosts a Mothers Day celebration of stars in this holiday special aired in color, saluting the mothers of Hollywood stars. The entire cast appears in rocking chairs singing Hoagy Carmichael's "Rockin' Chair," before boarding a jet to Hollywood singing original lyrics to Charlie Barnet's instrumental "Skyliner." One skit features the Stooges bemoaning that they never had a mother, while the orchestra plays "My Mothers Eyes." Singer Mary Costa's rendition of "Holiday For Strings" is interrupted and broken-up by the Stooges, who prance onstage in drag as ballerinas. When the cast members serenade the Hollywood stars' mothers, the Stooges come out to sing "Que Sera Sera" to Doris Day's mother. Additional musical performances include "There's a Small Hotel in Beverly Hills" (Langford, Bob Cummings, Mary Costa), "La Taviata" (Mary Costa), "It Was Worth It" (Hermione Gingold), "Puttin' on the Ritz" (Johnny Mathis), "Suppertime" and "Ave Maria" (Frances Langford), and "I Remember It Well" (Bob Cummings and Hermione Gingold).


Cast: Frances Langford, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Joe DeRita, Johnny Mathis, Bob Cummings, Don Ameche, Mary Costa, Hermione Gingold, Ken Murray, Ray Heindorf & His Orchestra, The Hermes Pan Dancers, The Jud Conlon Singers, Jack "Mr. Bongo" Costanzo
Additonal cast: The Motion Pictures Mothers Club (aka the mothers of...): Doris Day, Dean Martin, Lou Costello, Eddie Albert, Richard Carlson, Gary Cooper, Mary Costa, Tony Curtis, Glenn Ford, Samuel Goldwyn, Dorothy Lamour, Frances Langford, Jack Lemmon, Anita Louise, Ann Miller, Wayne Morris, Ken Murray, Ginger Rogers, Cesar Romero

Crew: Frank Tashlin (Director and Writer), Charles Wick (Producer)
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