Ford Star Jubilee
Genre	anthology
Running time	90 minutes
Starring
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 24, 1955–November 3, 1956
No. of episodes	12

Ford Star Jubilee was a live, ninety minute, color spectacular that aired once a month on Saturday nights on CBS from September 1955 to November 1956. Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ford Motor Company sponsored this big-budget Comedy / Drama / Music anthology series, which featured big name performers, color broadcast and a longer than normal 90 minute format. now. ...

This series routinely featured major stars, such as Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Orson Welles, Julie Andrews (at the time that she was appearing in My Fair Lady on Broadway), Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Lillian Gish, Charles Laughton, Jack Lemmon, Raymond Massey, Lauren Bacall, Claudette Colbert, Noel Coward, Nat 'King' Cole, Mary Martin, Eddie Fisher, Ella Fitzgerald, Debbie Reynolds and Red Skelton. Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American film actress considered by many to be one of the greatest singing stars of Hollywoods Golden Era of musical film. ... Betty Grable Ruth Elizabeth Betty Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 3, 1973) was an American actress, singer, and pin-up girl whose famous bathing-suit poster was an icon of the World War II era. ... George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American radio broadcaster, theatre director, film director and actor. ... Dame Julie Andrews, DBE (born October 1, 1935) is an Emmy, Grammy and Academy Award-winning English actress, singer, and author, who became famous for her starring roles in the Broadway musical My Fair Lady and the musical films Mary Poppins (1964) and The Sound of Music (1965). ... The original poster for the Broadway production of the show designed by Al Hirschfeld My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederic Loewe. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901[1] – July 6, 1971) (also known by the nickname Satchmo, for satchel-mouth and Pops) was an American jazz musician. ... Harry Lillis Bing Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. ... Lillian Gish Lillian Diana de Guiche (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993), was an Oscar-nominated American actress, better known as Lillian Gish. ... Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor. ... Jack Lemmon at Expo 1967. ... Raymond Massey photographed by Carl Van Vechten Raymond Hart Massey (August 30, 1896 – July 29, 1983) was a Canadian actor. ... Lauren Bacall (born Betty Joan Perske on September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress. ... Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was a French-American, Academy Award-winning actress for It Happened One Night. ... Sir Noel Peirce Coward (spelling his forename Noël with the diaeresis was an affectation of later life) (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. ... Nat King Cole in The Blue Gardenia (1953) Nat King Cole (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965) was a hugely popular American singer and jazz musician. ... Mary Martin photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1949 Mary Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) born in Weatherford, Texas was an American star of (mainly stage) musicals. ... Eddie Fisher is the name of these famous people: Eddie Fisher (baseball player) Eddie Fisher (singer) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella (the First Lady of Song), was an American singer, considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century, alongside Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. ... Debbie Reynolds (born April 1, 1932) is an American actress, dancer and singer. ... Richard Bernard Red Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American comedian whose greatest impact — in a career which began as a teen circus clown and graduated to vaudeville, Broadway, MGM films, and radio — began when he reached television stardom with The Red Skelton Show (NBC, 1951–1952...

Instead of the usual live performance, the final episode was a special, 2 hour presentation of the 1939 MGM film "The Wizard of Oz", hosted by Bert Lahr, 10 year old Liza Minnelli and young Oz expert Justin Schiller. The broadcast was a ratings smash, but the film was not shown on TV again until 1959, when it was shown at an earlier hour (6:00 P.M., E.S.T.) as a Christmas season special in its own right, not as an anthology episode. This broadcast attracted an even wider audience, because children were able to watch, and thus began the tradition of showing the film annually on television. The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 musical fantasy film based on L. Frank Baums turn-of-the-century childrens story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which a resourceful American girl is snatched up by a Kansas tornado and deposited in a fantastic land of witches, talking... Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion. ... Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an Academy Award-winning and Tony Award-winning American actress and singer. ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Christmas season (also known as the holiday season) is a term that covers the time when two interconnected periods of celebration are held. ...

Episode List

• The Judy Garland Show 9/24/1955
• Together With Music 10/22/1955
• The Caine Mutiny Court Martial 11/19/1955
• I Hear America Singing 12/17/1955
• Blithe Spirit 1/14/1956
• The Day Lincoln Was Shot 2/11/1956
• High Tor 3/10/1956
• Twentieth Century 4/7/1956
• This Happy Breed 5/5/1956
• A Bell For Adano 6/2/1956
• You're The Top 10/6/1956
• The Wizard of Oz 11/3/1956

External links

• Ford Star Jubilee at IMDB