Ford Star Jubilee

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Ford Star Jubilee
Format	anthology
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	12
Production
Running time	90 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Original run	September 24, 1955 – November 3, 1956

Ford Star Jubilee was a live, ninety minute, color spectacular that aired once a month on Saturday nights on CBS from September 1955 to November 1956, at 9:00 P.M., E.S.T.

Ford Motor Company sponsored this big-budget Comedy / Drama / Music anthology series, which featured big name performers, color broadcast and a longer than normal 90 minute format.

This series routinely featured major stars, such as Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Orson Welles, Julie Andrews (at the time that she was preparing for her starring role in My Fair Lady on Broadway), Louis Armstrong, Bing Crosby, Lillian Gish, Charles Laughton, Jack Lemmon, Raymond Massey, Lauren Bacall, Claudette Colbert, Noel Coward, Nat 'King' Cole, Mary Martin, Eddie Fisher, Ella Fitzgerald, Red Skelton and Debbie Reynolds.

Instead of the usual live performance created especially for television, the final episode on November 3, 1956 was a special, two-hour presentation of the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz, hosted by Bert Lahr, 10 year old Liza Minnelli and young Oz expert Justin Schiller. The broadcast was a ratings smash, but the film was not shown on TV again until 1959, when it was shown at an earlier hour (6:00 P.M., E.S.T.), guest-hosted by Red Skelton and his daughter Valentina as a Christmas season special in its own right, not as part of an anthology series. This broadcast attracted an even wider audience, because children were able to watch, and thus began the tradition of showing the film annually on television.

[edit] Episode List

The Judy Garland Show 9/24/1955
Together With Music 10/22/1955
The Caine Mutiny Court Martial 11/19/1955
I Hear America Singing 12/17/1955
Blithe Spirit 1/14/1956
The Day Lincoln Was Shot 2/11/1956
High Tor 3/10/1956
Twentieth Century 4/7/1956
This Happy Breed 5/5/1956
A Bell For Adano 6/2/1956
You're The Top 10/6/1956
The Wizard of Oz 11/3/1956

[edit] External links

Ford Star Jubilee at IMDB

v • d • e The films of Delbert Mann

1950s	Marty • The Bachelor Party • Desire Under the Elms • Separate Tables • Middle of the Night

1960s	The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • Lover Come Back • The Outsider • That Touch of Mink • A Gathering of Eagles • Quick Before It Melts • Dear Heart • Mister Buddwing • Fitzwilly • The Pink Jungle

1970s	Kidnapped • Birch Interval • Love's Dark Ride

1980s	Brontë

Television	"Lights Out" (1949) • "The Philco Television Playhouse" (1949 - 1955) • "Goodyear Television Playhouse" (1951 - 1955) • "Producers' Showcase" (1955) • "Playwrights '56" (1955 - 1956) • "Ford Star Jubilee" (1956) • "Omnibus" (1956 - 1957) • "The DuPont Show of the Month" (1958) • "Playhouse 90" (1958 - 1959) • "NBC Sunday Showcase" (1959) • "Startime" (1960) • Heidi (1968) • "CBS Playhouse" (1968) • David Copperfield (1969) • Jane Eyre (1970) • She Waits (1972) • No Place to Run (1972) • The Man Without a Country (1973) • The First Woman President (1974) • The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975) • A Girl Named Sooner (1975) • Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976) • Tell Me My Name (1977) • Breaking Up (1978) • Home to Stay (1978) • Tom and Joann (1978) • Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (1978) • Torn Between Two Lovers (1979) • All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) • To Find My Son (1980) • "Insight" (1981) • All the Way Home (1981) • The Member of the Wedding (1982) • The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983) • Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984) • A Death in California (1985) • The Last Days of Patton (1986) • The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1976) • Tell Me My Name (1977) • Breaking Up (1986) • April Morning (1988) • Ironclads (1991) • Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992) • Incident in a Small Town (1994) • Lily in Winter (1994)

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