The Hollywood Palace
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The Hollywood Palace was an hour-long television variety show produced by Nick Vanoff. It was broadcast weekly (generally on Saturday night) on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. It began as a mid-season replacement for the short-lived Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only 3 months. It was staged in Hollywood at the former Hollywood Playhouse on Vine Street, which was renamed The Hollywood Palace during the show's duration and is today known as Avalon Hollywood.
Unlike similar programs such as The Ed Sullivan Show, guest hosts were used instead of a permanent one. Among the performers and hosts on the show were Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Frank Sinatra, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Sid Caesar, The Rolling Stones, Groucho Marx, Tony Bennett, Judy Garland, Jimmy Durante, The Supremes, Ginger Rogers, The Temptations, Phyllis Diller, and many other famous faces. The off-screen announcer for each program was Dick Tufeld.
A number of popular music performers got their start on the show. For example, The Rolling Stones made their first US television appearance June 13 1964, and The Jackson 5 made their first national television appearance on the October 14, 1969 episode of the show.
In a famous June 1964 telecast, controversy ensued when The Rolling Stones, upset with guest host Dean Martin's sarcastic comments directed at them throughout the program, refused to perform a second scheduled musical number.
In 2004, Hollywood Palace returned to television, produced by Margate Entertainment Company, the trademark owner of Hollywood Palace. The first episode starred TV icon Peter Marshall and featured guests Marty Allen, a regular on the earlier version, and legendary 1950's singer Don Cherry.
[edit] Full List of Guest Stars
- Bing Crosby
- Bob Newhart
- Mickey Rooney
- Bobby Van
- Nancy Wilson
- Mel Brooks
- Rosemary Clooney
- Robert Cummings
- Anthony Newley
- Carl Reiner
- Marty Ingels
- Johnny Mathis
- Ginger Rogers
- Carl Ballantine
- Tony Bennett
- Ernest Borgnine
- Vikki Carr
- Miriam Makeba
- Eleanor Powell
- Buddy Greco
- Don Knotts
- Donald O'Connor
- Buddy Hackett
- The Mills Brothers
- Yma Sumac
- Gig Young
- Red Buttons
- Vic Damone
- Jane Morgan
- The Smothers Brothers
- Bill Dana
- Joey Heatherton
- Gene Kelly
- Della Reese
- Roy Rogers
- Dale Evans
- Kate Smith
- Jackie Mason
- Morey Amsterdam
- Rose Marie
- Groucho Marx
- Marty Allen
- Diahann Carroll
- Paul Winchell
- Sergio Franchi
- The Lennon Sisters
- Patti Page
- Cyd Charisse
- Mahalia Jackson
- Tony Martin
- Fran Jeffries
- Jack E. Leonard
- Rich Little
- Jerry Van Dyke
- Jack Carter
- Jimmy Durante
- Liberace
- Eddie Albert
- Rowan & Martin
- Chad & Jeremy
- Anna Maria Alberghetti
- Louis Jourdan
- Henny Youngman
- Carole Cook
- Betty Hutton
- Paul Lynde
- George Gobel
- Trini Lopez
- Victor Borge
- Dennis Day
- Caterina Valente
- Louis Armstrong
- Louis Nye
- Buster Keaton
- Juliet Prowse
- Barbara Rush
- Gloria Swanson
- Dean Martin
- The Rolling Stones
- Stan Getz
- Astrud Gilberto
- Ed Wynn
- Eydie Gormé
- Zizi Jeanmaire
- The Nicholas Brothers
- Maurice Chevalier
- Tim Conway
- Jane Powell
- Shecky Greene
- Dorothy Provine
- Dan Dailey
- Harry James
- Buddy Ebsen
- Shani Wallis
- Ben Blue
- Bette Davis
- Olivia de Havilland
- Alice Faye
- Arthur Godfrey
- Pat Morita
- Shelley Berman
- Desi Arnaz Jr.
- The McGuire Sisters
- Phil Harris
- Burl Ives
- Ann Miller
- Edgar Bergen
- Candice Bergen
- Cliff Arquette
- Norm Crosby
- Vienna Boys Choir
- Betty Grable
- Van Johnson
- Edward G. Robinson
- Debbie Reynolds
- George Burns
- Mort Sahl
- Kay Starr
- Edie Adams
- Harlem Globetrotters
- David Janssen
- Wayne Newton
- Connie Stevens
- Bert Lahr
- Eddie Fisher
- Bill Cosby
- Robert Goulet
- Carol Lawrence
- Nelson Eddy
- The Supremes
- Allan Sherman
- Margaret Dumont
- Gordon MacRae
- Pat Boone
- Steve Lawrence
- Jack Jones
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Jack Burns and Avery Schreiber
- Fred Astaire
- Margot Fonteyn
- Rudolf Nureyev
- We Five
- Godfrey Cambridge
- Joan Crawford
- Count Basie
- Frank Sinatra
- Milton Berle
- Sonny & Cher
- Abbe Lane
- Ray Bolger
- Lionel Hampton
- Judy Garland
- Chita Rivera
- Janet Leigh
- Forrest Tucker
- Ken Berry
- Cesar Romero
- Herb Alpert
- Bob Crane
- Richard Dawson
- Werner Klemperer
- Danny Thomas
- Charles Aznavour
- Petula Clark
- The Mamas & the Papas
- Sid Caesar
- Liza Minnelli
- Joan Rivers
- Paul Anka
- Marni Nixon
- John Davidson
- Martha Raye
- Adam West
- Marcel Marceau
- Ethel Merman
- Nancy Sinatra
- The Muppets
- Nanette Fabray
- David Frost
- Wally Cox
- Helen O'Connell
- Johnny Rivers
- Johnny Mercer
- Leslie Uggams
- Polly Bergen
- Phil Silvers
- The Lovin' Spoonful
- Elizabeth Montgomery
- Ray Charles
- George Carlin
- Herman's Hermits
- Phyllis Diller
- Dale Robertson
- Sammy Davis Jr.
- Dom DeLuise
- Florence Henderson
- Jimmy Dean
- Lainie Kazan
- Buffalo Springfield
- Willie Mays
- Jimmy Piersall
- Julius LaRosa
- Theodore Bikel
- Don Ameche
- Frances Langford
- Frankie Avalon
- Annette Funicello
- The 5th Dimension
- Ravi Shankar
- David Hedison
- Lena Horne
- Joey Bishop
- Raquel Welch
- Don Ho
- Kaye Ballard
- Joe Besser
- Irwin Corey
- Roger Miller
- George Sanders
- Lynn Redgrave
- Marlo Thomas
- Roosevelt Grier
- Deacon Jones
- Merlin Olsen
- Rob Reiner
- Sergio Mendes
- Burt Bacharach
- John W. Bubbles
- Kathryn Grant
- Shari Lewis
- Everett Dirksen
- Robert Vaughn
- Lawrence Welk
- Iris Adrian
- James Brown
- Steve Allen
- Jayne Meadows
- The Temptations
- Peter Lawford
- Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
- The Hollies
- Don Adams
- Bobby Goldsboro
- Jeannie C. Riley
- Leonard Nimoy
- Richard Harris
- Janis Joplin
- Barbara Eden
- Arte Johnson
- Aretha Franklin
- Johnny Whitaker
- Donovan
- Mike Douglas
- The Bee Gees
- Imogene Coca
- Lou Rawls
- Lola Falana
- Ike & Tina Turner
- Jo Anne Worley
- Sugar Ray Robinson
- John Byner
- Glen Campbell
- Judy Carne
- Bobbie Gentry
- Bob Hope
- Tiny Tim
- Boyce and Hart
- Earl Wilson
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Marvin Gaye
- Sonny James
- Irene Ryan
- Mel Tormé
- Soupy Sales
- Ethel Waters
- Stevie Wonder
- Charo
- Nipsey Russell
- Peggy Lipton
- Don Rickles
- Terry-Thomas
- Gladys Knight & the Pips
- The Four Tops
- Sally Ann Howes
- Tom Jones
- Dick Shawn
- Gwen Verdon
- Flip Wilson
- Engelbert Humperdinck
- The Jackson 5
- Alan Sues
- Cass Elliot
- The Dells
- Roy Clark
- Minnie Pearl
- Gregory Hines
- Alvin Ailey
- Robert Culp
- Dyan Cannon
- Lulu
- Perry Como
- Sam and Dave
- Angie Dickinson
- Dusty Springfield
- Frankie Laine
