The Ed Sullivan Show

Duke Ellington / Lloyd Price / Frankie Avalon / Jean Carroll

E41    Jun 27, 1959    60m    TV-G
12th Anniversary Show with guests: --Lloyd Price - ""Personality"" --Duke Ellington - ""Anatomy of a Murder"" & ""Flirty Bird"" --Otto Preminger - director of the film ""Porgy & Bess"" (90-second segment, probably an interview) --Frankie Avalon - ""A Boy without a Girl"" & ""That's Jazz"" --The Armstrong Band (without Louis) - plays untitled song --Ingemar Johansson (boxer from Sweeden) - new Heavyweight Boxing Champ shows knockout punch to Ed. --Italian Modern Jazz Dancers --Jean Carroll (stand-up comedy: teenage dates & modern times) --Little Dane & Mason - ""That's Plenty"" and ""Can Do"" (comic demonstration of invention of the fugue form in music) --Rickie Layne & Irving - do a beatnik ventriloquist routine with the puppet harassing Ed.--Tina Robin - ""Splish Splash"" & ""Hound Dog"" --Eric Brenn (plate spinner)

Audience bow: Fred Astaire
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Cast of Duke Ellington / Lloyd Price / Frankie Avalon / Jean Carroll
  • Ed SullivanSelf - Host
  • Art HannesSelf - Announcer
  • Fred AstaireSelf
  • Duke EllingtonSelf - Pianist

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