Don't Knock the Twist
4:00 pm - 5:40 pm, Monday, November 17 on WKUW Nostalgia Network (40.5)
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About this Broadcast
TV producer (Lang Jeffries) tries to put on a big show, with numbers by Chubby Checker, Gene Chandler, Vic Dana. Dulcie: Mari Blanchard. Madge: Georgine Darcy.
1962
English
HD Level Unknown
Musical
Music
Comedy
Dance
Cast & Crew
Lang Jeffries
(Actor)
.. Ted Haver
Chubby Checker
(Actor)
.. Chubby Checker
Mari Blanchard
(Actor)
.. Dulcie Corbin
Georgine Darcy
(Actor)
.. Madge Albright
Gene Chandler
(Actor)
.. The Duke of Earl
Vic Dana
(Actor)
.. Himself
Linda Gaye Scott
(Actor)
.. Herself
The Carroll Brothers
(Actor)
.. Themselves
The Dovells
(Actor)
.. Themselves
Stephen Preston
(Actor)
.. Billy Albright
Barbara Morrison
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Morrison
Nydia Westman
(Actor)
.. Dressmaker
James Chandler
(Actor)
.. Joe Albright
Frank Albertson
(Actor)
.. Herb Walcott
Elizabeth Harrower
(Actor)
.. Ruth Emerson
Hortense Petra
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Kay
Viola Harris
(Actor)
.. Fashion Editor
David Landfield
(Actor)
.. Director
Tim Sullivan
(Actor)
.. Mr. Fullerton
Ralph Montgomery
(Actor)
.. Reporter
More Information
Did You Know..
Lang Jeffries
(Actor)
.. Ted Haver
Chubby Checker
(Actor)
.. Chubby Checker
Born:
October 03, 1941
Mari Blanchard
(Actor)
.. Dulcie Corbin
Born:
April 13, 1927
Died: May 10, 1970
Died: May 10, 1970
Trivia:
American actress Mari Blanchard trained from childhood for a dancing career, but a bout with polio put an end to those dreams. Undaunted, she became an advertising model, then entered films in 1950 after attracting attention in a bubble-bath pose. Possessed of a striking but somewhat synthetic beauty, Mari was most effectively cast as tarts, homewreckers, and other assorted villainesses. Her most prolific work was in tongue-in-cheek exotic roles, such as the Queen of Venus in Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) and the Arabian princess in Son of Sindbad (1955). In 1960, Mari appeared as hotel-owner Kate O'Hara in the shortlived TV series Klondike, but was dropped from the project when it switched formats in 1961 and was retitled Acapulco. Mari Blanchard's last screen appearance was in 1963, where she was billed twenty-fourth as the likeable town madam in John Wayne's McClintock (she is but one of many townsfolk who refuses to shelter Maureen O'Hara when Big John sets out to give O'Hara a public spanking). After a long bout with cancer, Mari Blanchard died at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in 1970.
Georgine Darcy
(Actor)
.. Madge Albright
Born:
January 14, 1931
Died: July 18, 2004
Died: July 18, 2004
Gene Chandler
(Actor)
.. The Duke of Earl
Born:
July 06, 1937
Vic Dana
(Actor)
.. Himself
Born:
August 26, 1942
Linda Gaye Scott
(Actor)
.. Herself
The Carroll Brothers
(Actor)
.. Themselves
The Dovells
(Actor)
.. Themselves
Stephen Preston
(Actor)
.. Billy Albright
Barbara Morrison
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Morrison
Born:
October 01, 1907
Nydia Westman
(Actor)
.. Dressmaker
Born:
February 19, 1902
Died: May 23, 1970
Died: May 23, 1970
Trivia:
The daughter of actors Theodore Westman and Lily Wren, Nydia Westman joined the family vaudeville act as a child. Westman was seen on Broadway from 1920, and in films from 1932. A short, pudgy lady with an air of perpetual consternation, she was ideally cast as maids, busybodies and spinsters. She was at her best fending off the wisecrackery of Bob Hope in 1939's Cat and the Canary. Westman returned to the stage full-time in the early 1950s, then resumed her film and TV career in the last decade of her life; among her credits was the regular role of Mrs. Featherstone in the 1962 TV-series adaptation of Going My Way.
James Chandler
(Actor)
.. Joe Albright
Born:
January 01, 1922
Died: January 01, 1988
Died: January 01, 1988
Trivia:
Character actor James Chandler is best remembered for playing Inspector Regan in the popular 1950s TV series Tracer. He continued working in TV action shows and movies. Later, he moved to working in commercials. In addition to his television work, Chandler also appeared in a few films and in theatrical productions in the San Francisco area.
Frank Albertson
(Actor)
.. Herb Walcott
Born:
February 02, 1909
Died: February 29, 1964
Died: February 29, 1964
Trivia:
Some actors can convey wide-eyed confusion, others are adept at business-like pomposity; Frank Albertson was a master of both acting styles, albeit at the extreme ends of his film career. Entering movies as a prop boy in 1922, Albertson played bit roles in several late silents, moving up the ladder to lead player with the 1929 John Ford talkie Salute. The boyish, open-faced Albertson was prominently cast in a number of Fox productions in the early 1930s, notably A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1931) and Just Imagine (1931). By the mid-1930s he had settled into such supporting roles as Katharine Hepburn's insensitive brother in Alice Adams (1935) and the green-as-grass playwright who falls into the clutches of the Marx Brothers in Room Service (1938). His best showing in the 1940s was as the wealthy hometown lad who loses Donna Reed to Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life (1946). By the 1950s, a graying, mustachioed Albertson was playing aging corporate types. Frank Albertson's more memorable roles in the twilight of his career included the obnoxious millionaire whose bank deposit is pilfered by Janet Leigh in Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and his uncredited turn as the flustered mayor of Sweetapple in Bye Bye Birdie (1963).
Elizabeth Harrower
(Actor)
.. Ruth Emerson
Born:
January 01, 1918
Died: December 10, 2003
Died: December 10, 2003
Trivia:
Elizabeth Harrower was an American character actress who appeared on radio, television, stage and screen during the '50s and '60s. Later in her career she became a writer on daytime television serials.
Hortense Petra
(Actor)
.. Mrs. Kay
Born:
December 09, 1904
Died: July 09, 1982
Died: July 09, 1982
Viola Harris
(Actor)
.. Fashion Editor
Born:
July 05, 1926
David Landfield
(Actor)
.. Director
Tim Sullivan
(Actor)
.. Mr. Fullerton
Ralph Montgomery
(Actor)
.. Reporter
Died:
January 01, 1980
Trivia:
American actor, singer, and dancer Ralph Montgomery played character roles in vaudeville, radio, and television. Montgomery also appeared in numerous feature films from the '40s through the mid-'70s. In addition to performing, he also worked as a drama coach. His daughter is an actress and his son, Phil Montgomery, is an actor and producer.
