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YOUNG (ish) JOAN RIVERS

On Friday I posted a wonderful clip of then 71 year-old Joan Rivers doing an appearance on BBC host Michael Parkinson’s show. Today we roll back the clock thirty five or so years from that interview and watch the Joan that first appeared in front of national audiences. Above is

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‘MR. BROADWAY’–AN ED SULLIVAN JOINT

Here’s a remarkable piece of film. It’s the surviving five minutes from an otherwise lost 1933 film called ‘Mr. Broadway’, featuring a very young Ed Sullivan (you can see him in a couple of cutaways sitting at a table with Bert Lahr). The film is essential viewing for any devotee

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GABLE + LOREN + SULLIVAN

In the late 1950s, Ed Sullivan took to doing on-set/on-location interviews as part of his television program’s offerings. Long ago I posted a visit he made to the ‘Fire Down Below’ set, featuring Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth and Jack Lemmon. Today we see Sullivan in Naples (or is it Capri?)

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HENNY ON EDDIE

Apropos of yesterday’s post featuring Henny Youngman, here’s another Henny TV appearance, this time on Ed Sullivan. (We see the terrifying looking Sullivan briefly at the top of the clip). I continue to question why Henny is funny, given the staleness of the jokes and the charm-free nature of the

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