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Ford Star Jubilee
Genre	Anthology
Written by	Maxwell Anderson Herbert Baker Jim Bishop Robert Buckner Carroll Carroll Noël Coward Paul Gregory Ben Hecht John Hersey Jean Holloway Charles MacArthur John Cherry Monks, Jr. Denis Sanders Terry Sanders Franklin J. Schaffner John Tackaberry Herman Wouk
Directed by	Seymour Berns Noël Coward Frederick de Cordova Paul Harrison Delbert Mann James Neilson Ralph Nelson Paul Nickell Franklin J. Schaffner Jerome Shaw
Composer(s)	Frank Denning
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12
Production
Executive producer(s)	Richard Lewine
Producer(s)	Robert Alton Paul Gregory Lance Hamilton Sidney Luft Ken Murray Jack Rayal Charles Russell Arthur Schwartz
Running time	90 mins. (approx)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	September 24, 1955 – November 3, 1956

Ford Star Jubilee was a usually live, ninety minute, color anthology series that aired once a month on Saturday nights on CBS from September 1955 to November 1956 (even though it didn't air from July to September 1956, at 9:00 P.M., E.S.T. The series was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company.

1 Format
2 Episodes
3 Awards and nominations
4 References
5 External links

Format

Ford Star Jubilee routinely featured major stars, such as Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Orson Welles, Julie Andrews (at the time that she was preparing for her starring role 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, Red Skelton and Debbie Reynolds.

Instead of the usual performance created especially for Ford Star Jubilee, the final episode on November 3, 1956 was a special, two-hour presentation of the 1939 MGM theatrical Technicolor film The Wizard of Oz, hosted by Bert Lahr, 10 year old Liza Minnelli and young Oz expert Justin Schiller. This marked the first time that the film had ever been shown on television, and the only time that one of the film's actual stars hosted it. The broadcast was a ratings smash, but the film was not shown on TV again until 1959, when it was presented at 6:00 P.M., E.S.T. rather than 9:00 P.M., this time as a Christmas season special in its own right, not as part of an anthology series. The 1959 telecast was hosted by comedian Red Skelton and his daughter Valentina. 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.

Another rare instance of Ford Star Jubilee presenting a filmed, rather than live, program was their 1956 musical version of Maxwell Anderson's High Tor, starring Bing Crosby and Julie Andrews. Music was by Arthur Schwartz, noted composer of such scores as those for The Band Wagon and Revenge with Music. Crosby, according to sources, had insisted the production be filmed rather than presented live, because he did not feel comfortable acting in a live television musical play. ^[1]

Although it was filmed in color, the musical version of High Tor has never been released on VHS or DVD.

Episodes

Episode #	Episode title	Original airdate
1	"The Judy Garland Show"	September 24, 1955
2	"Together With Music"	October 22, 1955
3	"The Caine Mutiny Court Martial"	November 19, 1955
4	"I Hear America Singing"	December 17, 1955
5	"Blithe Spirit"	January 14, 1956
6	"The Day Lincoln Was Shot"	February 11, 1956
7	"High Tor"	March 10, 1956
8	"Twentieth Century"	April 7, 1956
9	"This Happy Breed"	May 5, 1956
10	"A Bell For Adano"	June 2, 1956
11	"You're the Top"	October 6, 1956
12	"The Wizard of Oz"	November 3, 1956

Awards and nominations

1956 Prime Time Emmy Awards - NOMINATED - Best Female Singer - Judy Garland (for "The Judy Garland Show")

Year	Award	Result	Category	Recipient
1956	Primetime Emmy Award	Nominated	Best Variety Series	-
			Best Single Program of the Year	-
			Best Musical Contribution	Mary Martin and Noël Coward (For the song "Camarata" in the episode "Together with Music")
			Best Actor - Single Performance	Barry Sullivan (For the role of Defense Attorney Greenwald in the "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" episode)
		Won	Best Television Adaptation	Paul Gregory and Franklin J. Schaffner (For the "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" episode)
			Best Director - Live Series \|\| Franklin J. Schaffner (For the "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" episode)\|-style="background-color: #EAEAEA; "Best Actor - Single Performance \|\| Lloyd Nolan (For the role of Capt. Queeg in the "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" episode) 1957 Prime Time Emmy Awards - NOMINATED Best Single Performance By An Actress - Edna Best (For the role of Ethel Gibbons in "This Happy Breed")

References

^ Other reasons it was filmed: "High Tor will not be telecast live, the usual form for a large-scale show. It will be produced as a color film, which will permit later theatrical exhibition overseas and this will bring additional revenue to its originators." Oscar Godbout, "Hollywood Notes", The New York Times, September 4, 1955, p. X9. It was actually shot in black and white. "Christmas Can Stay — Radio and TV Are for It", The Washington Post, December 11, 1955, p. J3.

External links

Ford Star Jubilee at the Internet Movie Database
Ford Star Jubilee at TV.com

The films of Delbert Mann

1950s	Marty • The Bachelor Party • Desire Under the Elms • Separate Tables • Middle of the Night

1960s	The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • Lover Come Back • The Outsider • That Touch of Mink • A Gathering of Eagles • Quick, Before It Melts • Dear Heart • Mister Buddwing • Fitzwilly • The Pink Jungle

1970s	Kidnapped • Birch Interval • Love's Dark Ride

1980s	Brontë

Television	"Lights Out" (1949) • "The Philco Television Playhouse" (1949 - 1955) • "Goodyear Television Playhouse" (1951 - 1955) • "Producers' Showcase" (1955) • "Playwrights '56" (1955 - 1956) • "Ford Star Jubilee" (1956) • "Omnibus" (1956 - 1957) • "The DuPont Show of the Month" (1958) • "Playhouse 90" (1958 - 1959) • "NBC Sunday Showcase" (1959) • "Startime" (1960) • Heidi (1968) • "CBS Playhouse" (1968) • David Copperfield (1969) • Jane Eyre (1970) • She Waits (1972) • No Place to Run (1972) • The Man Without a Country (1973) • The First Woman President (1974) • The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975) • A Girl Named Sooner (1975) • Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976) • Tell Me My Name (1977) • Breaking Up (1978) • Home to Stay (1978) • Tom and Joann (1978) • Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (1978) • Torn Between Two Lovers (1979) • All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) • To Find My Son (1980) • "Insight" (1981) • All the Way Home (1981) • The Member of the Wedding (1982) • The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983) • Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984) • A Death in California (1985) • The Last Days of Patton (1986) • The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1976) • Tell Me My Name (1977) • Breaking Up (1986) • April Morning (1988) • Ironclads (1991) • Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992) • Incident in a Small Town (1994) • Lily in Winter (1994)

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