The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1985) (TV)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Release Date:

27 December 1985 (USA)

Plot Keywords:

TV Special | Awards Show

Awards:

Won Primetime Emmy. Another 3 nominations

Cast

Don Ameche	...	Himself
Mikhail Baryshnikov	...	Himself
Carol Burnett	...	Herself
Chevy Chase	...	Himself
Walter Cronkite	...	Himself (Master of Ceremonies)
Merce Cunningham	...	Himself (Honoree)
Nancy Davis	...	Herself (as Nancy Reagan)
Kirk Douglas	...	Himself
Irene Dunne	...	Herself (Honoree)
Robert Goulet	...	Himself
Rex Harrison	...	Himself
Bob Hope	...	Himself (Honoree)
Louis Jourdan	...	Himself
Michele Lee	...	Herself
Alan Jay Lerner	...	Himself (Honoree)
Frederick Loewe	...	Himself (Honoree)
Sherrill Milnes	...	Himself
Anthony Newley	...	Himself
Ronald Reagan	...	Himself
Liz Robertson	...	Herself
Beverly Sills	...	Honoree
Maureen Stapleton	...	Herself
James Stewart	...	Himself
Frederica von Stade	...	Herself

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts - 2700 F Street NW, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

One of the best of the Kennedy Center Honors broadcasts

The Kennedy Center Honors, televised each year since 1978 as a tribute to great artists of stage, screen, television, musical theater, and dance, are a time we as a nation get a chance to reminisce about those artists that have seemingly always been a part of our lives. Each year the same approach is used: a well-known individual who knows the recipient introduces them, a video highlights the honorees life, the audience stands to applaud them (and so do we), another well-known "star" introduces the entertainment, and a variety show of sorts unfolds, usually in the genre reflecting that of the honoree. Although many of the almost 30 televised specials have been highly entertaining, the 1985 telecast is one of the best. Honorees Beverly Sills, Irene Dunne, Merce Cunningham, Lerner and Leowe, and Bob Hope are not only household names (well-perhaps not Cunningham), but certainly among the top-ten favorites of many of us. The video clips this year are exceptional in coverage and the introductions and entertainment of no less than Frederica van Stade, Sherill Milnes, Robert Goulet, Chevy Chase, Jimmy Stewart, and Carol Burnett, is outstanding. For those of us currently in our 50's or older, a lifetime of entertainment flashes before our eyes in this one show. As the men in uniform at the close of the show say to Bob Hope, we can say to all of these honorees: "Thanks for the memories."