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Ford Star Jubilee is an American anthology series that aired once a month on Saturday nights on CBS at 9:00 P.M., E.S.T. from the fall of 1955 to the fall of 1956. The series was approximately 90 minutes long, aired in black-and-white and color, and was typically broadcast live. Ford Star Jubilee was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company.
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
The Judy Garland Show
Musical variety with Judy Garland in her TV debut as a performer. Songs included: You Made Me Love You-Garland/Swanee-Garland/Palace Medley: Shine On, Harvest Moon/Some of These Days/My Man/I Don't Care-Garland/Japanese song-Sawamura/It's De-Lovely-Garland, Wayne, Sawamura/This is the Time of the Evening-Garland/While We're Young-Garland/Medley: But Not for Me-Garland/For Me and My Gal-Garland & Wayne/The Boy Next Door-Garland/The Trolley Song-Garland & Escorts/Rock-A-Bye Your Baby-Garland//Get Happy-Garland/The Man That Got Away-Garland/A Couple of Swells-Garland & Wayne/Over the Rainbow-Garland.
Together With Music
Musical revue. Songs included: Together With Music-Martin & Coward/Uncle Harry, Nina, Mad Dogs and Englishmen-Coward/I Only Have Eves For You, I Get A Kick Out of You, Les Filles de Cadix-Martin/90 Minutes Is A Long, Long Time-Martin & Coward/I'll See You Again, Dance Little Lady, Poor Little Rich Girl, Room With A View, Someday I'll Find You, I'll Follow My Secret Heart, If Love Were All, Play Orchestra Play-Coward/South Pacific Medley: Dites Moi, Cockeyed Optimist, Some Enchanted Evening, Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair, Wonderful Guy-Martin/My Heart Belongs to Daddy-Martin/World Weary, What's Going to Happen to the Tots-Coward/London Pride-Martin/Deep In The Heart of Texas-Coward/Get Out Those Old Records, They Didn't Believe Me, 'SWonderful, Time On My Hands, I Didn't Know What Time It Was, Anything Goes, Dancing In The Dark, Ballerina, I Won't Dance, Papa, Won't You Dance With Me?, Charleston, The Way You Look Tonight, You're An Old Smoothie, Young and Foolish, Always True T
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
A dramatization of the trial of Lieutenant Maryk for his role in the Caine mutiny against the paranoiac Captain Queeg.
I Hear America Singing
Musical variety salute to America and her music.
Blithe Spirit
Charles Condomine is a writer living in the English countryside with his second wife Ruth. He's researching a book involving metaphysics and invites a medium, Madame Arcati, to his home for dinner and a seance. The ghost of his first wife Elvira is summoned and she proceeds to wreak havoc with his present wife.
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
The story begins with President Lincoln at 7 a.m. Friday, April 14, 1865 and ends the next day at 7:22 a.m. when he is pronounced dead by Surgeon General Barnes. In between a number of other related and momentous events of Lincoln's last day are depicted including a meeting with General Grant, his last Cabinet session, the assasins completing their preparations, and the actors and management of Ford's Theatre arranging to receive the Presidential party.
High Tor
Van Van Dorn is torn between his love of his fiancee Judith and a mountain, High Tor, which he owns. His fiancee breaks their engagement when Van refuses to sell the mountain to a pair of real estate swindlers. A rockfall traps Van and the realtors overnight on the mountain, which turns out to be haunted by a Dutch ghost sailor crew from the 1600s and a beautiful Dutch girl Lise, who encourages Van to fight for the mountain. Songs included: Living One Day at a Time / When You're in Love - Bing Crosby / Sad is the Life of a Sailor's Wife - Julie Andrews / When You're in Love - Everett Sloane & Julie Andrews / A Little Love, A Little While - Bing Crosby / When You're in Love (reprise) -Everett Sloane / John Barleycorn - Bing Crosby / Once Upon a Long Ago - Julie Andrews / Once Upon a Long Ago - Bing Crosby / John Barleycorn - Bing Crosby & chorus / A Little Love, A Little While (reprise) - Bing Crosby. Music and lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Maxwell Anderson. The music was conduct
Twentieth Century
When Oscar Jaffe, a brilliant but eccentric Broadway impresario, boards the 20th Century Limited in Chicago, he makes sure that his compartment adjoins that of the tempestuous movie queen Lily Garland. For the object of his trip is to get Lily's signature on a contract before the train reaches New York. The situation is complicated by the fact that Jaffe's creditors are breathing hot down his neck and a Broadway play with Lily as star can bail him out. In addition, Oscar's interest in Lily was, at one time, more than professional. But now the relationship between the two temperamental artists is something less than cordial.
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