A Best of Paar rebroadcast which originally aired 
Nov. 16, 1960.

Hugh Downs announces the opening, and introduces Jack Paar who does a brief monologue and then is stymied by verbal gibberish by Joe E. Brown who kids Jack. 

Guest Joe E.  Brown talks about his affection for Marliyn Monroe while filming Some Like it Hot. Other subjects discussed is his early acrobatic life beginning when he was only nine years old. He also tells the story of the time when only one person remained in the audience before his act with Billy Bash and the Five Ashtons was over, and he was the janitor.     

On the panel Peggy Cass, Jack Douglas and his wife Reiko Douglas chime in and comment. 

Joe E. Brown mentions his pride for his son Joe L. Brown, general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates who won the World Series in 1960. 
Joe E. Brown states his own love of what he is currently 
doing as President of the Pony Baseball League and the 14,000 volunteers who give of their time to helping these young teenagers.                                   

Re-run of Program 3 of 18 episodes in the series with real humor and affection Joe E. Brown hosts as master of humor who brings back the days when movie comedy was seen, but not heard. 

Comments from Eddie Sutherland, Charlie Ruggles, Moe Howard, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd. A feature presentation of the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company in collaboration with the Oral History Research Project of Columbia University. Produced by Joan Franklin and Robert Franklin. 

   NOTE: Robert  C. Franklin (1920-1980), inspired by a 1958 newspaper story he read about Columbia University's POPULAR ARTS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, approached Dr. Louis Starr, then director of the oral-history collection, with a proposal to interview and tape record, on to 1/4" reel to reel audio tapes, movie people as they passed through New York. The objective would be to document, through personal recollections, the era of the silent era in films, the impact of sound, the triumphs and inequities of the major studios, and life in the glittering film capital...a firsthand account revelation of how silent movies were actually made.  

Robert  and his wife, Joan Franklin went on to record 200 reels of audio tape, recording celebrities mostly in New York City hotel rooms in 1958 and 1959. Transcripts of interviews were made available at the time to students and researchers. 

In 1961 excerpts/highlights from these audio tapes were edited into a 16 part  radio series titled, MEMOIRS OF THE MOVIES. Myrna Loy provided a standard opening. A different celebrity host/hostess was employed to introduce each episode. All of the 90 celebrities interviewed have since passed away with the exception of Joanne Woodward. Two additional episodes were later produced, "Style of the 70's," and "Rush To Reality," both hosted by Ben Gazzara and added, subsequently, to  re-issues of the series which were syndicated in the 1960's and 1970's airing  in New York (WINS), Boston (WBZ), Philadelphia (KYW), Baltimore (WJZ), Fort Wayne (WOWO), Chicago (WIND), San Francisco (KPIX), and Los Angeles (KFWB).  

The original 200 unedited reels of 1/4" audio tape interviews recorded by Joan and Robert Franklin are no longer known to exist. However, audio cassette transfers from these original tapes were donated by Joan Franklin many decades ago to Columbia University's Oral History Research Office where they exist  today.
Confirmed during a 2009 phone conversation with Mary Marshal Clark, archivist at Columbia at that time, who stated that the first on file communication from Robert  Franklin to Columbia University related to his  proposal to do an oral history audio recorded project is dated, July 31, 1958.
                                                             

       Host Bill Reed profiles  the November 6, 1961 Bel-Air fire which destroyed nearly 500 homes, including those of Hollywood celebrities belonging to Burt Lancaster, Joe E. Brown, and Zsa Zsa Gabor.