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9 records found for John Barrymore
1957-09-05, KNXT, 90 min.
October 4, 1956 - May 18, 1960 Most television historians and critics of the medium would agree that PLAYHOUSE 90 was the most ambitious of TV's dramatic anthology series which was a genre that thrived and predominated in the 1950's. PLAYHOUSE 90 presented a ninety-minute dream each Thursday evening, mostly LIVE during its first two year run. It was broadcast as a series of specials during the 1959-1960 season, and reruns were aired in 1961. More than 100 plays were presented during the series four seasons on television. AUS officer enters a German fortress on a ruse to save his men from having to attack a stronghold. SELECTIONS FROM ORIGINAL GRAY AUDOGRAPH DISC RECORDINGS, RECORDED OFF THE AIR, REPRESENTING SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS OF KNXT LOS, ANGELES BROADCASTING, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 THRU 7, 1957. These LOST CBS broadcasts represent an unprecedented one complete week, sign on to sign off, September 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1957 (130 hours on 130 8 & 1/2" diameter discs with a capacity to record 32 minutes per side (side one and side two had the potential capacity to record 64 minutes). These discs were obtained in Los Angeles by Phil Gries, creator and owner of Archival Television Audio, Inc. in 2011. They were originally found in an establishment, located in Burbank, California, selling old records dispersing its inventory as they went out of business, a few years before. The rarity of this type of media to record television is not known to have occured beyond a few incidents, as stated below, at any other time, which make this collection of TV Audio Airchecks, recorded on Gray Audograph discs, an amazing surviving artifact. The sound quality varies with different broadcasts. After a period of almost three years, processing and digitizing these 130 two sided discs, there is recognition of the rarity of some of these broadcasts providing one of a kind surviving Television Audio Airchecks and are extremely desirable regardless of some of the extraneous sound artifacts heard on some of these tracks which were painstakingly processed and transferred one by one to optimize the sound quality and proper pitch. NOTE: To listen to a seminar Phil Gries presented at an ARSC presentation in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2014, about these Gray Audograph Discs...their genesis, discovery and contents, go to the ATA website www.atvaudio.com and click on ARSC which can be found within the right column on the ATA Home Page. GRAY AUDIOGRAPH (1946 - 1976) History: The Gray Audograph was a dictation disc recording format introduced in 1946 by the Gray Manufacturing Company in the United States. It recorded sound by pressing grooves into soft vinyl discs, like the competing, but incompatible, SoundScriber and VoiceWriter formats. Audiograph discs were blue thin plastic flexible discs, recorded from the inside to the outside, the opposite of conventional phonograph discs. Another difference compared to phonograph discs (78, 45, 33 & 1/2) was that the audiograph was driven by a surface-mounted wheel, meaning that its recording and playback speed decreased toward the edge of the disc (like the Compact Disc and other digital formats), to keep a more constant linear velocity and to improve playing time. The mandatory speed variation correction requires playback on an Audograph player, which ATA possesses and has modified, allowing line out output connections, direct line, to the input of any other recording format device. Gray Audograph discs were available in three different sizes. The 6-inch diameter disc offered 10 minutes of recording time per side, the 6 & 1/2" disc offered 15 minutes per side. The 8 & 1/2" disc, which is extant in the ATA archive, offered 30 minutes of recording per side. ALONG WITH THE DICTABELT RECORDER, A GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER MACHINE CAPTURED THE ACTUAL LIVE SOUNDS RECORDED OF GUN SHOTS AT THE TIME OF THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. THESE AUDIO SOUNDS WERE USED IN THE REVIEW BY THE UNITED STATES HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS. THE GRAY COMPANY CEASED MANUFACTURE OF THE GRAY AUDOGRAPH RECORDER IN 1976.
#gj10700c: TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JACK PAAR, THE
Order1958-05-16, NBC, 39 min.
- Hugh Downs
- Jonathan Winters
- Gary Cooper
- Nita Naldi
- Charlton Heston
- John Barrymore
- Burt Lancaster
- Rudolph Valentino
- Orson Bean
- Jack Paar
- Jose Melis
July 29, 1957 - March 30, 1962. Jonathan Winters was the first person to substitute host for Jack Paar on his Tonight Show late night television show. This episode is one of 26 broadcasts on which Jonathan held down the hosting chair for Jack during his reign. Hugh Downs opens the broadcast listing guests to appear. Jonathan Winters does a comedy routine doing the voices of characters, baby Elizabeth, brother Lenny, Mother and Father as they travel by car on a vacation. Guest Nita Naldi (1894-1961) appears in a rare interview with Jonathan, who besides asking serious questions about her silent career working with John Barrymore and Rudolph Valentino, kids with her as well. Naldi speaks of working with Cecil B. Demille on The Ten Commandments and states that her favorite contemporary actors are Gary Cooper, Burt Lancaster and Charlton Heston. She also mentions her interest watching current westerns on television including "Have Gun Will Travel." Movie clips of Nita Naldi acting in "Blood and Sand," and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are shown with Winters and Naldi commenting on working with Rudolph Valentino and John Barrymore. Orson Bean joins the panel. He mentions that he will be substituting for Jack Paar next week and mentions the guests who will be appearing. Orson and Jonathan kid one another and set up an ad-lib moment where Orson interviews Jonathan in character as cowboy, Gary Longstreet, Jasper Snodgrass, collector of odd objects, and as an Indian Chief. Jose Melis plays on the piano "Silhouette." Jonathan Winters takes a moment to deeply express gratitude to Jack Paar who has given him the opportunity to host The Tonight Show in his absence during personal challenging events in his career.
1963-03-18, WNBC, 25 min.
Mike Wallace narrates the career and colorful life of John Barrymore.#537: TELL US MORE
Order1963-10-31, WNBC, 19 min.
The careers of John Barrymore and Diana Barrymore are profiled by host Conrad Nagel with additional anecdotes from Hollis Alpert and Muriel Davidson.1964-06-08, WNBC, 22 min.
Joseph Cotten narrates. A look at famous film monsters and the actors associated with them.
1964-06-08, WNBC, 22 min.
Joseph Cotten narrates. A look at famous film monsters and the actors associated with them.
1966-06-10, WBAI, 53 min.
- Fredric March
- Thomas Alva Edison
- John Barrymore
- Florence Nightingdale
- William Jennings
- W.C. Handy
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Woodrow Wilson
- Warren Harding
Narrator Frederic March presents a scrapbook of famous men and women who have contributed significantly to the history of the 19th & 20th centuries. Rare recordings of voices heard are those of Florence Nightingale, Thomas Alva Edison, William Jennings Bryan, John Barrymore, W.C. Handy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding and others. The sign off for WBAI is heard, giving the complete programming day for tomorrow on this listener sponsored New York City Radio station.
1967-08-01, NBC, 12 min.
October 1, 1962-May 22, 1992. An excerpt from this "lost" broadcast. Tony Randall discusses with Johnny his new record album which includes the the original "Boo-Hoo" classic co-written by Carmen Lombardo. Both Lombardo and Randall sing a duet of the song. Tony recounts the time he was co-hosting with Betsy Palmer "It's Oscar Night in Hollywood," live from the Brown Derby on April 4, 1960. It was a half hour broadcast where Randall was suppose to interview celebrities attending the Oscar broadcast, including Gary Cooper, prior to the Academy Awards actual telecast. Everything goes wrong for Tony including a last minute decision by the Academy to NOT have any actors or actresses appear before the the actual Oscar telecast itself. Randall relates numerous incidents from that disastrous broadcast. Johnny and Tony discussing moments when they would forget their lines, actress Carolyn Jones tells the story of John Barrymore who on stage was drunk and forgot his lines. The stage manager feeds Barrymore and his co-star on stage the line. Barrymore yells to the stage manager, "We know the line, but who says it?" Johnny loves the anecdote. Johnny Carson, host of NBC's network late-night "Tonight Show" reigned for 30 unprecedented years...five times the combined tenure of Steve Allen, and Jack Paar. Carson was impervious to competition, including efforts to dethrone him by Les Crane, Joey Bishop, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Jack Paar, Pat Sajak, Joan Rivers, and Arsenio Hall. Sadly, very few complete "Tonight Show" broadcasts survive during Johnny Carson's first ten years of broadcasting. Around 1965, through the early 1970's, oldest tapes were first erased systematically by orders from myopic NBC executives, to be recycled for purposes of saving money. Ironically, in many cases, these older master tapes were too brittle, and portended probable drop-outs for re-use after being erased. Subsequently blank after being erased, these older questionable master 2" Quad tapes were either sparingly used or never used again for recording new programming and eventually were discarded. Saving thousands of dollars at the time (wiping master tapes for potential re-use) resulted in losing millions of dollars by NBC in today's marketplace, and more importantly wiping thousands of historic TONIGHT SHOW broadcasts, which contain precious personal anecdotes from political, show business, and sports icons of the past.1970-01-10, WABC, 51 min.
- Groucho Marx
- Clark Gable
- John Barrymore
- Greta Garbo
- Wallace Beery
- Marie Dressler
- Louis B. Mayer
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Dick Cavett
- Irving Thalberg
- Jean Harlow
Dick Cavett narrates this nostalgia trip back to the "glory days" of MGM: The personalities include Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg, Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Elizabeth Taylor, The Marx Brothers and many others.