The Hollywood Palace (1964–1970)

Popular, long-running Saturday night variety show of the mid-to-late 1960's, originating from the Hollywood Palace Theater (formerly the El Capitan) on Hollywood Boulevard. There was a ... See full summary »

Stars:

Bing Crosby, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 9 nominations.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Bing Crosby	...	Himself - Host (31 episodes, 1964-1970)
Milton Berle	...	Himself - Host (16 episodes, 1965-1969)
Jimmy Durante	...	Himself - Host (13 episodes, 1964-1969)

Storyline

Popular, long-running Saturday night variety show of the mid-to-late 1960's, originating from the Hollywood Palace Theater (formerly the El Capitan) on Hollywood Boulevard. There was a revolving guest host, usually a singer or comedian, each week. Bing Crosby was the most frequent guest host (including, of course, the Christmas Week show), but other frequent guest hosts included Sammy Davis, Jr., Jimmy Durante, Don Adams, Fred Astaire, and Judy Garland. The Rolling Stones made their first U.S. TV appearence on the show in 1964. The waning popularity of weekly variety shows contributed to "Hollywood Palace" being cancelled in early 1970, but it's still well-remembered by its many fans.

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Plot Keywords:

variety | three word title

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Taglines:

From Hollywood, The Entertainment Capital of the world. ABC-TV presents "The Hollywood Palace!"

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Genres:

Comedy | Family | Music

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Certificate:

TV-G

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

4 January 1964 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Hollywood Palace Theater - 1735 N. Vine Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

American Broadcasting Company (ABC), United Artists Television, Zodiac Enterprises

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White (1964-1965) Color (1965-1970)

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

With the third season completed, the King Sisters, having appeared on the Hollywood Palace, negotiated with Nick Vanoff and Bill Harbach (Zodiac Productions) to produce a musical television pilot variety series for ABC Television. In August, 1966, Zodiac Productions (the Hollywood Palace's staff show team-personnel) assembled the "The King Sisters and Family", taped as a pilot series presentation and submitted to the ABC TV Network. The principle selling point was to match the studio-stage "Lawrence Welk Show" scheduling, alternating the week with another television family show for the new 1966-1967 Network program schedule. ABC TV "bought the pilot" and the King Sisters' show went into production. The Art Department (Jim Trittipo and Hub Braden) was replaced with Romaine Johnston (Production Designer) and Michael Baugh (Art Director). Additional new hires replaced the "Zodiac personnel" positions.

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Connections

Referenced in Mystery Science Theatre 3000: Bloodlust! (1994)

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Soundtracks

"Put On A Happy Face"
Written by Gower and Margie Champion
Performed by the Les Brown Orchestra and then the Mitchell Ayres Orchestra and the Mort Lindsey Orchestra

User Reviews

Playing the Palace

How I loved the Hollywood Palace back in the day. It was ABC TV's best contribution to our culture back in the day. Of course the fact that the most frequent guest host was the Greatest Entertainer Ever made it a must see item.

Highlights that I remember would include such things as: Bing Crosby dueting with Sonny&Cher, Nelson Eddy making his last big or small screen appearance, Tony Martin and Rudy Vallee, not singing together, but dueting with the clarinet and saxophone, instruments that both played but put aside when their singing careers took over.

The show was a homage to the old Palace Theatre in New York City. In the days of vaudeville it was the summit of every entertainer's ambition; to play at the Palace Theatre.

It was good that people got to see a lot of these folks. I wish that TV Land would broadcast some of these shows.

Classics every one.