Word: dinah
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caesar, Berle's successor as king of the TV comedians, was faring less well. Reunited early this year with Imogene Coca, Caesar tried a comeback on ABC, ran into the heavy opposition of the Dinah Shore Show on NBC. Last week Sponsor Helena Rubinstein announced that she would drop him at month...
...ENTERTAINMENT: NBC's The Dinah Shore Show and Hallmark Hall of Fame...
...show is live except me. I'm on film. And now from my latest album, Songs to Make Money By, here's a swingin' tune, Love Is a Gasser." By coincidence, ABC's Sinatra was appearing against Caesar as a guest on NBC's Dinah Shore Show. Caesar drove home his needle by scoring a Trendex rating of 25.8 against Dinah's 14.5. "You can't tell much after one show," he said afterward, but it was plain at least that TV was the richer again for a pair of comic artists...
Curiously, the season's other major trend-the show built around a star vocalist-is boomeranging. NBC's Perry Como and Dinah Shore, whose early success inspired the idea, enjoy the personal touch and the production support that still set them apart. Though her ratings have been ungallant, ABC's Patrice Munsel has given TV a welcome fillip of talented sex and voice appeal. But the Pat Boones, Giselle MacKenzies and Patti Pages have drawn neither rating nor rooting, and Guy Mitchell will get the ax at ABC this month. Biggest disappointment: Frank Sinatra, now busily trying...
...Glamour." Things were not always "so good," either. As Fanny Rose Shore in Winchester, Tenn. (pop. 3,974), she bridled at schoolmates' taunting puns ("Fanny sat on a tack. Fanny rose? Shore!"). Recalls Dinah: "I tell you, it just made me go home nights and chew my pillow." In childhood she suffered from polio, which for six years threatened the full use of her right foot. After some bleak, jobless days in Manhattan, she spent 3½ years indentured to radio's Eddie Cantor, did poorly in several movies (Belle of the Yukon, Up in Arms...