Cavalcade of Stars

1949•1h 0m

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Ended

First Aired

June 4, 1949

Last Aired

September 26, 1952

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Premiere with guest stars Peter Lorre, Joan Edwards

Air date: 1949-06-04

Jack Carter stars with guests singer Joan Edwards, actor Peter Lorre, bird whistlers The Arnauts, comedy team McCarthy and Farrell, and acrobats The Fontaines. Lorre does a recitation of "The Telltale Heart" and joins Carter in a mad scientist sketch. Edwards performs at the piano and teams with Carter for "You're Adorable."

Ella Logan, Maurice Rocco

Air date: 1949-06-11

Marilyn Maxwell

Air date: 1949-06-18

Mimi Benzell

Air date: 1949-06-25

Vivian Blaine, Mata & Hari

Air date: 1949-07-02

Kay Starr

Air date: 1949-07-09

Pearl Bailey

Air date: 1949-07-16

Kitty Kallen, The Four Step Brothers

Air date: 1949-07-23

Victor Borge, Thelma Carpenter

Air date: 1949-07-30

E10

Henny Youngman, Ethel Smith

Air date: 1949-08-06

E11

Janet Blair, Zero Mostel

Air date: 1949-08-13

E12

Gladys Swarthout, the Dunhills, Mimi Benzell, Cabot & Dresden, Professor Irwin Corey

Air date: 1949-08-20

E13

Vivian Blaine. Georgia Gibbs, Phil Foster, the Treniers

Air date: 1949-08-27

E14

Luba Malina, Ray Malone

Air date: 1949-09-03

E15

Paul Winchell, Donald Richards, Joan Edwards, the Clark Brothers

Air date: 1949-09-10

E16

Hazel Scott, Jackie Miles

Air date: 1949-09-17

E17

Connee Boswell, Carlos Ramirez

Air date: 1949-09-24

E18

Kitty Carlisle, Tito Guizar, Jean Carroll

Air date: 1949-10-01

E19

Cab Calloway, Marie McDonald, Gil Lamb

Air date: 1949-10-08

E20

Carol Bruce, Josh White, Alice Pearce

Air date: 1949-10-15

E21

Bert Lahr, Mata & Hari, the DeCastro Sisters

Air date: 1949-10-22

E22

Vivian Blaine, Zero Mostel

Air date: 1949-10-29

E23

Gali-Gali Luxor, Milt Douglas, Willie Shore

Air date: 1949-11-05

E24

Kitty Kallen, Bert Wheeler, Donald Richards, Rudy Cardenas

Air date: 1949-11-12

E25

Jackie Coogan, Hal LeRoy, Lina Romay

Air date: 1949-11-19

E26

Pinky Lee, Ilona Massey

Air date: 1949-11-26

E27

Vera Vague, Joan Merrill

Air date: 1949-12-03

E28

Smith & Dale, the DeMarco Sisters

Air date: 1949-12-10

E29

Monica Lewis, Jack Durant

Air date: 1949-12-17

E30

Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney, Hazel Scott

Air date: 1949-12-24

E31

Jean Carroll

Air date: 1949-12-31

E32

Chico Marx

Air date: 1950-01-07

E33

Frances Langford, The Four Step Brothers

Air date: 1950-01-14

E34

Mindy Carson, Leo DeLyon

Air date: 1950-01-21

E35

Robert Merrill, The Mello-Larks, Jack E. Leonard

Air date: 1950-01-28

E36

Andy Russell, Della Russell, Patricia Bowman, Stan Freeman

Air date: 1950-02-04

E37

Jane Pickens, Buck & Bubbles

Air date: 1950-02-11

E38

Guest Host: Bert Wheeler; Guest Star: Johnny Coy

Air date: 1950-02-18

E39

Guest Host: Jackie Miles; Guest Star: Betty Bruce

Air date: 1950-02-25

E40

Jerry Lester debut as host; guest stars: Janis Paige, Dorothy Jarnac, Baccaloni

Air date: 1950-03-04

E41

Connie Haines, Maurice Rocco

Air date: 1950-03-11

E42

Janet Blair

Air date: 1950-03-18

E43

Chester Morris, Kyle MacDonnell, Dizzy Gillespie

Air date: 1950-03-25

E44

John Loder, Gertrude Niesen, Bert Gordon

Air date: 1950-04-01

E45

Kyle MacDonnell, Bert Wheeler, Jerry Wayne

Air date: 1950-04-08

E46

J. Carrol Naish, Kyle MacDonnell, Louis Nye, Carl Reiner

Air date: 1950-04-15

E47

Jackie Robinson, Kyle MacDonnell, Johnny Johnston, Gali-Gali

Air date: 1950-04-22

Lester as a clown called Arthur Clodfrey (takeoff on Arthur Godfrey), magician Galli-Galli make baby chicks appear under cups, MacDonnell sings "The Boy Next Door", and Jackie Robinson appears in a sketch visiting a kid in a wheelchair.

E48

Sam Levenson, Kyle MacDonnell

Air date: 1950-04-29

E49

Smith & Dale, the Four Step Brothers, Mimi Benzell, Leonard Sues

Air date: 1950-05-06

E50

Jack Pearl & Cliff Hall, Joan Edwards, Elsa & Waldo

Air date: 1950-05-13

E51

Jackie Robinson, Mindy Carson

Air date: 1950-05-20

E52

Keye Luke, Ray Malone, Susan Miller, Carl Ravazza

Air date: 1950-05-27

E53

John Garfield, Kim Stanley, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney

Air date: 1950-06-03

E54

Kitty Kallen, Larry Storch

Air date: 1950-06-10

E55

Vivian Blaine, Carlos Ramirez, Jackie Miles

Air date: 1950-06-17

E56

Anna Maria Alberghetti, Wally Brown, Beatrice Kay, Leonard Sues

Air date: 1950-06-24

E57

Georgia Gibbs

Air date: 1950-07-01

E58

Jackie Gleason debut as host; guest stars: Rose Marie, the DeCastro Sisters

Air date: 1950-07-08

Jackie Gleason debuts as host with Rose Marie, comic Hank Ladd, acrobat Ladd Lyon, singing DeCastro Sisters, and dancer Evelyn Farney. Gleason duets with Rose and in a sketch at a hat check counter. DeCastros sing a Latin-American number.

E59

Gloria DeHaven, Eddie Fisher

Air date: 1950-07-15

E60

Ella Fitzgerald, Kate Murtagh, Mary Raye & Naldi

Air date: 1950-07-22

E61

The Modernaires, Evelyn Farney

Air date: 1950-07-29

E62

Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Clare, Billy Daniels

Air date: 1950-08-05