Here's Hollywood

Here's Hollywood is an American celebrity interview program which aired on weekday afternoons on NBC at 4:30 Eastern time from September 26, 1960, to December 28, 1962.[1]

Here's Hollywood
Joanne Jordan and Dean Miller, 1960.
Presented byDean Miller
Joanne Jordan
Helen O'Connell
Jack Linkletter
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons2
Production
ProducerJess Oppenheimer
Running time30 minutes
Production companyDesilu
DistributorViacom
Paramount Television
CBS Paramount Television
CBS Television Distribution (current)
Release
Original networkNBC
Picture formatBlack-and-white
Audio formatMonaural
Original releaseSeptember 26, 1960 (1960-09-26) –
December 28, 1962 (1962-12-28)

Overview

In the first season, the interviews were conducted by Dean Miller and Joanne Jordan. In the second season, Helen O'Connell replaced Jordan.

Among those interviewed were Rhonda Fleming and her third husband, Lang Jeffries, three months before their divorce, and another married couple, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gormé. From The Three Stooges appeared Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe DeRita.[2]

Others who appeared on the broadcast, some twice, included Fred Astaire, Bob Barker, Edgar Bergen, Polly Bergen, Neville Brand, Anita Bryant, Sebastian Cabot, John Cassavetes, Lon Chaney, Jr., Gary Crosby, Bob Cummings, Abby Dalton, Ann B. Davis, Bette Davis, William Demarest, Bob Denver, Bradford Dillman, Fabian, Constance Ford, Connie Francis, Annette Funicello, Judy Garland, George Gobel, Hermione Gingold, Lorne Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Sessue Hayakawa, Paul Henreid, Darryl Hickman, Earl Holliman, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Horton, Tab Hunter, David Janssen, Rick Jason, Carolyn Jones, Danny Kaye, Buster Keaton, Gene Kelly, Jack Kelly and Don Knotts.[2]

Michael Landon, The Lennon Sisters, Peter Lorre, Carol Lynley, Barbara Luna, Shirley MacLaine, Nobu McCarthy, Steve McQueen, Lori Martin, Harpo Marx, Jayne Meadows, Robert Mitchum, Ricardo Montalbán, Elizabeth Montgomery, Terry Moore, Don Murray, Jan Murray, Bob Newhart, Kathleen Nolan, Jay North, Gregory Peck, Cynthia Pepper, Anthony Quinn, George Raft, Tony Randall, Rex Reason, Edward G. Robinson, Wayne Rogers, Robert Ryan, Mickey Rooney, Charles Ruggles, Jane Russell, Telly Savalas, Gia Scala, Maximilian Schell, Rod Serling, Fay Spain, Yoko Tani, Danny Thomas, Jack Warden, Jack Webb, Richard Widmark, Johnny Weissmuller, Cornel Wilde and Gig Young also appeared.[2]

Production notes

The program was a Desilu Production.[3] Jack Linkletter, son of Art Linkletter, conducted some of the interviews in 1962.

References
  1. Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. p. 212. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
  2. "Here's Hollywood guest stars". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved February 7, 2009.
  3. Alex McNeil, Total Television, New York: Penguin Books, 1996, 4th ed., p. 374
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