Buick Berle Show, September, 1954
A wonderful look at American TV and Buick commercials from 1954. This show features many performers who did very well, career wise, in the years that would follow.
Here is "Uncle Miltie" having fun with Mickey Rooney. The jokes are a bit more from comedy writers than just ad lib, but there is plenty of on the spot comedy thrown in.
There is a filmed ambulance ride that is used to good advantage. Also watch for The Herb Ross Dancers. Herbert Ross would become a very successful choreographer and later director of such movies as Funny Girl and Pennies From Heaven and The Sunshine Boys. I did get to know Herb Ross when I worked as a Hollywood movie extra. I worked in three of his productions. I was in the diner scene of Pennies From Heaven and I also worked in Protocol and Max Dugan Returns. Herb was always very pleasant to me. He and I had a wonderful conversation about how good the chili was that was served on the set of Max Dugan on a very cold night for California.
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