This was a Colgate-sponsored comedy hour that featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
Overview
The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many notable comedians and entertainers of the era, including Eddie Cantor, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Fred Allen, Donald O'Connor, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Ben Blue, Robert Paige, Tony Curtis, Burt Lancaster, Broadway dancer Wayne Lamb and Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
Cast
Eddie Cantor
36 episodes
Dean Martin
35 episodes
Jerry Lewis
30 episodes
Bob Hope
22 episodes
Donald O'Connor
21 episodes
Bud Abbott
18 episodes
Sidney Miller
18 episodes
Lou Costello
17 episodes
Gordon MacRae
17 episodes
Jimmy Durante
15 episodes
Danny Arnold
12 episodes
Hal March
10 episodes
Tom D'Andrea
10 episodes
Eddie Fisher
9 episodes
Anna Maria Alberghetti
9 episodes
Ben Blue
9 episodes
Peggy Lee
8 episodes
Scatman Crothers
8 episodes
Fred Allen
7 episodes
Sid Fields
7 episodes
Cesar Romero
6 episodes
Marilyn Maxwell
6 episodes
Gene Nelson
5 episodes
George Raft
5 episodes
Danny Thomas
5 episodes
Phil Harris
5 episodes
Tony Martin
5 episodes
Charlton Heston
5 episodes
Edgar Bergen
5 episodes
Frank Sinatra
5 episodes
Milton Frome
5 episodes
Joel Grey
4 episodes
Mickey Rooney
4 episodes
Tony Curtis
4 episodes
Kay Starr
4 episodes
Bob Fosse
4 episodes
Spike Jones
4 episodes
George Jessel
4 episodes
Jack Albertson
4 episodes
Milton Berle
4 episodes
Harpo Marx
4 episodes
Bobby Clark
4 episodes
Jack Carson
4 episodes
Ed Wynn
3 episodes
Vivian Blaine
3 episodes
Broderick Crawford
3 episodes
Hedy Lamarr
3 episodes
Harry Belafonte
3 episodes
Grace Hartman
3 episodes
Janet Leigh
3 episodes
Robert Strauss
3 episodes
Gale Robbins
3 episodes
Mike Mazurki
3 episodes
Wally Cox
3 episodes
Harry von Zell
3 episodes
Connie Haines
3 episodes
Robert Cummings
3 episodes
Rhonda Fleming
3 episodes
Ronny Graham
3 episodes
Jane Morgan
3 episodes
Corinne Calvet
3 episodes
Paul Winchell
3 episodes
Robert Paige
3 episodes
Bert Lahr
3 episodes
Liberace
3 episodes
Ethel Merman
3 episodes
Dinah Shore
3 episodes
Jack Webb
3 episodes
Rosemary Clooney
3 episodes
Louis Armstrong
3 episodes
Peter Leeds
3 episodes
Sheldon Leonard
3 episodes
Jack Carter
3 episodes
Kirk Douglas
3 episodes
Janis Paige
3 episodes
Jan Peerce
3 episodes
Gloria DeHaven
2 episodes
Ann Sheridan
2 episodes
Kaye Ballard
2 episodes
Frances Langford
2 episodes
Kenny Delmar
2 episodes
Lily Pons
2 episodes
Beatrice Kay
2 episodes
Sheree North
2 episodes
Paul Douglas
2 episodes
Jeff Chandler
2 episodes
Debra Paget
2 episodes
Dorothy Lamour
2 episodes
Franklin Pangborn
2 episodes
Gale Storm
2 episodes
Constance Moore
2 episodes
Nelson Eddy
2 episodes
Rocky Marciano
2 episodes
Hedda Hopper
2 episodes
Gwen Verdon
2 episodes
Cecil Kellaway
2 episodes
Martha Raye
2 episodes
Dagmar
2 episodes
Beatrice Lillie
2 episodes
John Wayne
2 episodes
Sigmund Romberg
2 episodes
Robert Alda
2 episodes
Sharon Baird
2 episodes
Shelley Winters
2 episodes
Fred MacMurray
2 episodes
Helen Gallagher
2 episodes
Jerry Colonna
2 episodes
Rex Harrison
2 episodes
Irene Dunne
2 episodes
Norman Abbott
2 episodes
Frank De Vol
2 episodes
Jack Benny
2 episodes
Risë Stevens
2 episodes
Zsa Zsa Gabor
2 episodes
Gisele MacKenzie
2 episodes
Hoagy Carmichael
2 episodes
Stan Freberg
2 episodes
George Abbott
2 episodes
Jackie Gleason
2 episodes
Frank Nelson
2 episodes
Dorothy Dandridge
2 episodes
William Holden
2 episodes
Benny Rubin
2 episodes
Alan Young
2 episodes
Abbe Lane
2 episodes
Carmen Miranda
2 episodes
John Raitt
2 episodes
Larry Fine
1 episodes
Les Paul
1 episodes
Anita Ekberg
1 episodes
Heather Young
1 episodes
Leonard Barr
1 episodes
Farley Granger
1 episodes
Billy Sands
1 episodes
Dave Brubeck
1 episodes
Richard Arlen
1 episodes
Joan Blondell
1 episodes
Phil Silvers
1 episodes
Ralph Edwards
1 episodes
Hy Averback
1 episodes
Rocky Graziano
1 episodes
Joyce Jameson
1 episodes
Eddie Foy Jr.
1 episodes
Billy Daniels
1 episodes
Fran Allison
1 episodes
Bil Baird
1 episodes
Ilona Massey
1 episodes
Larry Storch
1 episodes
Joe Louis
1 episodes
Allan Jones
1 episodes
Brian Donlevy
1 episodes
Arthur Treacher
1 episodes
Judy Canova
1 episodes
Brian Aherne
1 episodes
Teresa Brewer
1 episodes
Dennis Day
1 episodes
Brandon De Wilde
1 episodes
Reginald Denny
1 episodes
Jack Haley
1 episodes
Fay McKenzie
1 episodes
Anne Jeffreys
1 episodes
Yvonne De Carlo
1 episodes
Eddie Bracken
1 episodes
Adele Jergens
1 episodes
Connie Russell
1 episodes
William Bendix
1 episodes
Buddy Rich
1 episodes
Lynn Loring
1 episodes
Ezio Pinza
1 episodes
Connee Boswell
1 episodes
Jaye P. Morgan
1 episodes
Andy Devine
1 episodes
Gloria Grahame
1 episodes
Claudette Colbert
1 episodes
Walter Abel
1 episodes
Ralph Bellamy
1 episodes
Louis Prima
1 episodes
Marion Marshall
1 episodes
Charles Laughton
1 episodes
Elaine Stewart
1 episodes
Perry Como
1 episodes
Charles Coburn
1 episodes
Patti Page
1 episodes
Merle Oberon
1 episodes
Lizabeth Scott
1 episodes
June Havoc
1 episodes
Pee Wee Reese
1 episodes
Lon Chaney Jr.
1 episodes
Keye Luke
1 episodes
Johnnie Ray
1 episodes
Maxene Andrews
1 episodes
Jan Clayton
1 episodes
Dick Van Patten
1 episodes
Tallulah Bankhead
1 episodes
Jean Wallace
1 episodes
Jeanne Carmen
1 episodes
Groucho Marx
1 episodes
Leo Durocher
1 episodes
Bobby Van
1 episodes
Walt Disney
1 episodes
Peggie Castle
1 episodes
Paul Hartman
1 episodes
Bruce Cabot
1 episodes
Sarah Vaughan
1 episodes
Herb Shriner
1 episodes
Ray Bolger
1 episodes
Nestor Paiva
1 episodes
Dick Haymes
1 episodes
Rose Marie
1 episodes
Helen O'Connell
1 episodes
Thelma Ritter
1 episodes
Arnold Stang
1 episodes
Vera Miles
1 episodes
Tennessee Ernie Ford
1 episodes
Arlene Dahl
1 episodes
Coleen Gray
1 episodes
Yul Brynner
1 episodes
Ben Alexander
1 episodes
Laverne Andrews
1 episodes
Margaret Dumont
1 episodes
Bess Myerson
1 episodes
Sonja Henie
1 episodes
Patrice Munsel
1 episodes
Jackie Cooper
1 episodes
Edward Everett Horton
1 episodes
Terry Moore
1 episodes
Jack Palance
1 episodes
Chester Conklin
1 episodes
James Gleason
1 episodes
Elaine Stritch
1 episodes
Monty Woolley
1 episodes
Chico Marx
1 episodes
Irv Kupcinet
1 episodes
Joyce Randolph
1 episodes
Morey Amsterdam
1 episodes
Lauren Bacall
1 episodes
Dave Garroway
1 episodes
Faye Emerson
1 episodes
Jane Russell
1 episodes
Eddie Mayehoff
1 episodes
Shirley Mitchell
1 episodes
Cornel Wilde
1 episodes
Pat O'Brien
1 episodes
Betty Garrett
1 episodes
Guy Lombardo
1 episodes
Errol Flynn
1 episodes
Billy Barty
1 episodes
Vera-Ellen
1 episodes
Mara Corday
1 episodes
Ella Fitzgerald
1 episodes
Lisa Kirk
1 episodes
Eartha Kitt
1 episodes
Carol Channing
1 episodes
Robert Montgomery
1 episodes
Fritz Feld
1 episodes
Buster Keaton
1 episodes
Sandra Gould
1 episodes
Julie Adams
1 episodes
Moe Howard
1 episodes
Lena Horne
1 episodes
Jules Munshin
1 episodes
Gloria Vanderbilt
1 episodes
James Komack
1 episodes
Emory Parnell
1 episodes
Fran Warren
1 episodes
Phil Foster
1 episodes
George Gobel
1 episodes
Connie Sawyer
1 episodes
Lee Erickson
1 episodes
Byron Foulger
1 episodes
Imogene Coca
1 episodes
Richard Loo
1 episodes
Douglas Fowley
1 episodes
James Stewart
1 episodes
Rudy Vallee
1 episodes
Polly Bergen
1 episodes
Joe E. Lewis
1 episodes
Gloria Jean
1 episodes
Burt Lancaster
1 episodes
Carolyn Jones
1 episodes
Eva Gabor
1 episodes
Joan Bennett
1 episodes
Tommy Farrell
1 episodes
Shemp Howard
1 episodes
Isobel Elsom
1 episodes
Doris Singleton
1 episodes
Xavier Cugat
1 episodes
Jack Kruschen
1 episodes
Andy Clyde
1 episodes
Debbie Reynolds
1 episodes
Hans Conried
1 episodes
Shirley Jones
1 episodes
Yogi Berra
1 episodes
Brenda Marshall
1 episodes
Dale Evans
1 episodes
Sam Levene
1 episodes
Frank Cady
1 episodes
Barry Kelley
1 episodes
Tony Bennett
1 episodes
Jonathan Winters
1 episodes
Louella Parsons
1 episodes
Frank Faylen
1 episodes
Magda Gabor
1 episodes
Edie Adams
1 episodes
Roy Rogers
1 episodes
Barbara Morrison
1 episodes
Richard Carlson
1 episodes
Robert Clary
1 episodes
Audrey Hepburn
1 episodes
Martha Scott
1 episodes
Victor Borge
1 episodes
Audie Murphy
1 episodes
Helen Hayes
1 episodes
Nancy Walker
1 episodes
Lilli Palmer
1 episodes
Eddie Albert
1 episodes
Sid Caesar
1 episodes
Franchot Tone
1 episodes
Betty Furness
1 episodes
Fred Waring
1 episodes
Joan Crawford
1 episodes
Dorothy Baker
1 episodes
Hank Henry
1 episodes
Sparky Kaye
1 episodes
Alyce King
1 episodes
Luise King
1 episodes
Marilyn King
1 episodes
Yvonne King
1 episodes
Bob Manning
1 episodes
Tracy Morgan
1 episodes
Wilda Taylor
1 episodes
Jim Backus
1 episodes
Ann Blyth
1 episodes
Rory Calhoun
1 episodes
Celeste Holm
1 episodes
Art Linkletter
1 episodes
Dave Barry
1 episodes
Joe E. Brown
1 episodes
Jarmila Novotná
1 episodes
Ann Thomas
1 episodes
Gregg Sherwood
1 episodes
Al Goodman
1 episodes
James Nolan
1 episodes
Jane Wyman
1 episodes
Verna Felton
1 episodes
Leigh Snowden
1 episodes
Bob Sweeney
1 episodes
Michael Ross
1 episodes
Mary Treen
1 episodes
Glenn Strange
1 episodes
Ben Chapman
1 episodes
Mitzi McCall
1 episodes
Dona Cole
1 episodes
Joe E. Ross
1 episodes
Alan Reed
1 episodes
Joanne Gilbert
1 episodes
Ray Walston
1 episodes
Sammy Davis Jr.
1 episodes
Rock Hudson
1 episodes
Agnes Moorehead
1 episodes
Nina Foch
1 episodes
Piper Laurie
1 episodes
George DeNormand
1 episodes
Dick Gordon
1 episodes
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